Multiple Database on Different Servers Laravel Solution

BaseModel.php

<?php

use Eloquent;

class BaseModel extends Eloquent {

    /**
     * The default connection
     */
    protected $connection = 'db1-mysql';

    /**
     * The name of the database to add chunk to
     */
    protected $chunkedDatabase;
    
    function __construct(array $attributes = array())
    {
        // If the model uses a chunked database
        if ($this->chunkedDatabase)
        {
            // Set the chunked database name
            // client.chunk is defined in a filter (i would like a better way to do this though)
            $database = $this->chunkedDatabase . app('client.chunk');

            // Update the model's table to include the database in the name
            $this->table = $database . '.' . $this->table;
            
            // Get the connection of the chunked data from our servermap model
            $this->connection = app('Servermap')->getConnection($database);
        }
    }
}

Page.php

<?php

class Page extends BaseModel {

    /**
     * Database is chunked... client1, client2, client3, etc
     */
    protected $chunkedDatabase = 'client';

    /**
     * The table associated with the model.
     */
    public $table = 'pages';

    // Rest of the standard model stuff below
}

I define a connection in /app/config/database.php for each database server then.