I have a developer who is accessing the wp-config file directly to get database information. I would think that WP has a better way to do this. What do you think community?
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I am not aware of a Wordpress function to do this. But have a look at this search and replace tool:
https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/
This achieves what you want by reading in the wp-config file and scanning through it. Have a look at the function "icit_srdb_define_find" on line 374.
$wpdb
holds data on the database name, the user or password(for the db connection), so including may be the only sure way to grab that info in a reliable manner unless you're happy to hardcode that info and update it from time to time.