//basepath needs to be defined in order to include config file (there is a check for this!)
define("BASEPATH", dirname(dirname(__FILE__)));

//push all config details (config.details returns them as array) into this array
$config = require_once("application/config/config.php");



// DB CONNECTION DETAILS FOR LS
$username = $config['components']['db']['username'];
$password = $config['components']['db']['password'];
$ls_dbprefix = $config['components']['db']['tablePrefix'];
//the DB connection string looks like this:
//'mysql:host=localhost;port=3306;dbname=etcvps88_devm;'
//so we need to check for the last "=", add 1 and get the string without the ending ";" character:
$database = substr($config['components']['db']['connectionString'],strrpos($config['components']['db']['connectionString'],"=")+1,-1);

//connect to Limesurvey DB
$ls_connect = mysqli_connect("localhost",$username,$password,$database) or die( "Unable connect to Limesurvey database '$database'");

//set charset to deal with special characters
mysqli_set_charset($ls_connect,'utf8');