how to custom connect the database from yii

Question

Im trying to connect the db in yii connection how can i do that ?

In below screen shot there is an cron.php i have trying to connect the database from root folder how to d that ?

Cron.php

require('framework/db/CDbConnection.php');    

$connection=new CDbConnection($dsn,'root','');
$connection->active=true;

I need to use Yii connection instead of mysql

 $mysql_con = mysql_connect('localhost','root','');
 mysql_select_db('som',$mysql_con); //local DB

Answer 1

If you want to use cron for some tasks, consider creating yii console application commands. Configure it to use your db settings and call tasks that you need like that yiic <command-name> <action-name>