Hi All,

I wish to connect the complete K2 component to an external database. For this i got few links and add code in K2 model to connet to external database, till this i am not having a problem, but i wish to even use the JFactory and other joomla default classes to access there data from this external database.

Can this be possible and how?

Regards.

Hello,

It is possible,

You need to follow the instructions on this post.
docs.joomla.org/Connecting_to_an_external_database

Hi Krikor,

Can you point me to the k2 php-file where this is to be implemented?

My intensions are similar. I want to create a subdirectory where company's can add k2 items, and show these items on my main website.
So can I connect one single category to another database?

Kind regards,
Tibbe

@Tibbe van Asten

You have to build your own extension to do this. K2 will always use the database of the site it is installed.

So, once you build your extension you can follow the instructions at docs.joomla.org/Connecting_to_an_external_database and make a connection to an other database and query that database.

Alternatively, instead of querying the database you can use the built-in JSON views of K2 to fetch the data from a different site. You can do this by appending ?format=json to a K2 category or item view page URL.