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function db_driver in Zircon Profile 8

Same name and namespace in other branches
  1. 8.0 core/includes/database.inc \db_driver()

Retrieves the name of the currently active database driver.

Return value

string The name of the currently active database driver.

Deprecated

as of Drupal 8.0.x, will be removed in Drupal 9.0.0. Instead, get a database connection injected into your service from the container and call driver() on it. E.g. $injected_database->driver($string);

See also

\Drupal\Core\Database\Connection::driver()

Related topics

Database abstraction layer
Allow the use of different database servers using the same code base.

File

core/includes/database.inc, line 430
Core systems for the database layer.

Code

function db_driver() {
  return Database::getConnection()
    ->driver();
}