I have a class that was written before cake. It accesses a database
using mysql_connect. This class works perfectly and lot of my
applications that i develop use this class.

Im transferring this class across to cake, but unfortunately it
confuses cake with the db connection.

>From what ive read, cake only allows 1 db connection, so as soon as I
open up any connection, it loses its previous connection, and only
points towards my new one. This is hazardous once you go back to making
more queries outside the custom class. (please note that useDBConfig
isnt possible since it is a custom class)

What I have noticed is that cake prepends the database to the query
when you use the predefined functions and this causes bad links.

Now back to my class, I CAN rewrite it as a model to make it work with
cake, but this isnt very graceful since its ignoring the whole OO
design theorom, and id have to edit the database.php on every project
that wants to use my new model. I want to be able to plug and play
different classes into cake without rewriting them.

Do I need to rewrite this class? Or is there a better way of handling
these different DB connections?


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