function db_drop_field
Same name in other branches
- 7.x includes/database/database.inc \db_drop_field()
Drops a field.
Parameters
$table: The table to be altered.
$field: The field to be dropped.
Return value
bool TRUE if the field was successfully dropped, FALSE if there was no field by that name to begin with.
Deprecated
in drupal:8.0.0 and is removed from drupal:9.0.0. Instead, get a database connection injected into your service from the container, get its schema driver, and call dropField() on it. For example, $injected_database->schema()->dropField($table, $field);
See also
https://www.drupal.org/node/2993033
\Drupal\Core\Database\Schema::dropField()
Related topics
1 call to db_drop_field()
- DatabaseLegacyTest::testDbDropField in core/
tests/ Drupal/ KernelTests/ Core/ Database/ DatabaseLegacyTest.php - Tests deprecation of the db_drop_field() function.
File
-
core/
includes/ database.inc, line 849
Code
function db_drop_field($table, $field) {
@trigger_error('db_drop_field() is deprecated in drupal:8.0.0. It will be removed from drupal:9.0.0. Instead, get a database connection injected into your service from the container, get its schema driver, and call dropField() on it. For example, $injected_database->schema()->dropField($table, $field). See https://www.drupal.org/node/2993033', E_USER_DEPRECATED);
return Database::getConnection()->schema()
->dropField($table, $field);
}
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