How to choose a database connection?

Question

Yii

There are two connections to the database, the first one is default. I need to switch to the second database during this request.

$cities = City::model()->findAll("name LIKE :name", array(':name'=>"%$query%"));

Answer 1

Here they write how to change the connection to the database in Yii-1. And also here ...

Answer 2

В настройках модели можно указать соединение. yii1 уже года 2 не видел, но изменить можно вот в этой функции -
public function getDbConnection() {}