 a DSN string.</li>
	<li>TRUE/FALSE (boolean).  Whether to return the connection ID (see Connecting to Multiple Databases below).</li>
	<li>TRUE/FALSE (boolean).  Whether to enable the Active Record class.  Set to TRUE by default.</li>
</ol>


<h3>Manually Connecting to a Database</h3>

<p>The first parameter of this function can <strong>optionally</strong> be used to specify a particular database group
from your config file, or you can even submit connection values for a database that is not specified in y