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function db_table_exists in Drupal 7

Same name and namespace in other branches
  1. 8 core/includes/database.inc \db_table_exists()
  2. 5 includes/database.mysqli.inc \db_table_exists()
  3. 5 includes/database.mysql.inc \db_table_exists()
  4. 5 includes/database.pgsql.inc \db_table_exists()
  5. 6 includes/database.mysqli.inc \db_table_exists()
  6. 6 includes/database.mysql.inc \db_table_exists()
  7. 6 includes/database.pgsql.inc \db_table_exists()

Checks if a table exists.

Parameters

$table: The name of the table in drupal (no prefixing).

Return value

TRUE if the given table exists, otherwise FALSE.

Related topics

Schema API
API to handle database schemas.
24 calls to db_table_exists()
DatabaseRegressionTestCase::testDBTableExists in modules/simpletest/tests/database_test.test
Test the db_table_exists() function.
DatabaseTemporaryQueryTestCase::testTemporaryQuery in modules/simpletest/tests/database_test.test
Confirm that temporary tables work and are limited to one request.
DatabaseTestCase::installTables in modules/simpletest/tests/database_test.test
Set up several tables needed by a certain test.
dblog_update_7003 in modules/dblog/dblog.install
Account for possible legacy systems where dblog was not installed.
drupal_uninstall_schema in includes/common.inc
Removes all tables defined in a module's hook_schema().

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File

includes/database/database.inc, line 2870
Core systems for the database layer.

Code

function db_table_exists($table) {
  return Database::getConnection()
    ->schema()
    ->tableExists($table);
}