Hi,

I'm using Eloquent ORM outside of laravel. Its with SLIM Framework.

I'm trying to control the number of new connections threads being opened for every query i make via Eloquent ORM.

My approach is to make persistent connections with MySql DB using the following config.

    'mysql' => array(
        'read' => [
            'host' => '192.168.1.206',
        ],
        'write' => [
            'host' => '192.168.1.206', 
        ],
        'driver' => 'mysql',
        'database' => 'xxxx',
        'username' => 'xxxxx',
        'password' => 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
        'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
        'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
        'prefix' => '',
        'options' => array(
            PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT => true,
        ),
    ),

But i'm not sure

1. how to check this up whether the connections are being closed or not?
2. how do I specify the ORM to use single connection?
3. do i have to explicitly tell the ORM to close a connection? if yes, how?