Using WPDB to connect to an external database

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Looking to use WPDB to connect to an external database in WordPress? You just need to create a new WPDB connection to link to an external database.

Connecting to a new database using WPDB

In order to connect to an external database in WordPress, you should use the following example below and change the bold fields accordingly.

$mydb = new wpdb( 'database_username', 'database_password', 'database_name', 'database_host' );

$rows = $mydb->get_results( 'SELECT something FROM some_table' );

foreach ( $rows as $row ) :
     echo $row->something;
endforeach;