drupal_install_schema

Definition

drupal_install_schema($module)
includes/common.inc, line 3094

Description

Create all tables that a module defines in its hook_schema().

Note: This function does not pass the module's schema through hook_schema_alter(). The module's tables will be created exactly as the module defines them.

Parameters

$module The module for which the tables will be created.

Return value

An array of arrays with the following key/value pairs:

success: a boolean indicating whether the query succeeded.
query: the SQL query(s) executed, passed through check_plain().

Related topics

Name	Description
Schema API	A Drupal schema definition is an array structure representing one or more tables and their related keys and indexes. A schema is defined by hook_schema(), which usually lives in a modulename.install file.

Code

<?php
function drupal_install_schema($module) {
  $schema = drupal_get_schema_unprocessed($module);
  _drupal_initialize_schema($module, $schema);

  $ret = array();
  foreach ($schema as $name => $table) {
    db_create_table($ret, $name, $table);
  }
  return $ret;
}
?>