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function DatabaseSchema::createTable

Create a new table from a Drupal table definition.

Parameters

$name: The name of the table to create.

$table: A Schema API table definition array.

Throws

DatabaseSchemaObjectExistsException If the specified table already exists.

1 call to DatabaseSchema::createTable()
DatabaseSchema_sqlite::alterTable in includes/database/sqlite/schema.inc
Create a table with a new schema containing the old content.

File

includes/database/schema.inc, line 729

Class

DatabaseSchema
Base class for database schema definitions.

Code

public function createTable($name, $table) {
 if ($this->tableExists ($name)) {
 throw new DatabaseSchemaObjectExistsException (t ('Table @name already exists.', array(
 '@name' => $name,
 )));
 }
 $statements = $this->createTableSql($name, $table);
 foreach ($statements as $statement) {
 $this->connection 
 ->query ($statement);
 }
}

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