connect | SurrealDB Docs

Connect to a local or remote database endpoint using the connect method in the SurrealDB PHP SDK.

Connects to a local or remote database endpoint.

Method Syntax

$db->connect($host, $options)

Arguments

Arguments	Type	Description
`host`	`string`	The url of the database endpoint to connect to.
`options`	`associative array`	An object with options to initiate the connection to SurrealDB.

Example usage

There are several ways to connect to a database endpoint. You can connect to a local or remote endpoint, specify a namespace and database pair to use, authenticate with an existing token, authenticate using a pair of credentials, or use advanced custom logic to prepare the connection to the database.

// Connect to a local endpoint
$db->connect('http://127.0.0.1:8000/rpc');

// Connect to a remote endpoint
$db->connect('https://cloud.surrealdb.com/rpc');

// Specify a namespace and database pair to use
$db->connect('https://cloud.surrealdb.com/rpc', [
	"namespace" => "surrealdb",
	"database" => "docs",
]);