#li3 > Lithium Documentation > lithium/data/Model::connection()

Extends

Gets the connection object to which this model is bound. Throws exceptions if a connection isn't set, or if the connection named isn't configured.

Returns

object Returns an instance of `lithium\data\Source` from the connection configuration to which this model is bound.

Source

						public static function &connection() {
		$self = static::_object();
		$connections = static::$_classes['connections'];
		$name = isset($self->_meta['connection']) ? $self->_meta['connection'] : null;

		if ($conn = $connections::get($name)) {
			return $conn;
		}
		throw new ConfigException("The data connection `{$name}` is not configured.");
	}