Rob Allen has continued his look at running a PHP application on Bluemix via Cloud Foundry with a new post showing how to use a PostgreSQL database on the platform.

Having successfully deployed a PHP application to Cloud Foundry, I needed a PostgreSQL database for persistent storage. I found Lorna Mitchell's Connecting PHP to MySQL on Bluemix helpful and this article expands on that information.

I want to create a cloud-based PostgreSQL database and connect it to Laravel's Eloquent in a Cloud Foundry application. This is how to do it.

He starts off by showing how to create the database instance on the Cloud Foundry platform via their command-line tool. Next he shows how to bind the database service to the application instance and get the credentials you'll need to connect from your application. Finally he moves over to the PHP side and shows how to configure Eloquent to connect to the database service using these credentials and make a sample query.