re are two ways to connect to a database:</p>

<h2>Automatically Connecting</h2>

<p>The "auto connect" feature will load and instantiate the database class with every page load.
To enable "auto connecting", add the word <var>database</var> to the library array, as indicated in the following file:</p>

<p><kbd>application/config/autoload.php</kbd></p>

<h2>Manually Connecting</h2>

<p>If only some of your pages require database connectivity you can manually connect to your database by adding this
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