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function db_find_tables in Zircon Profile 8

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

Finds all tables that are like the specified base table name.

Parameters

string $table_expression: An SQL expression, for example "simpletest%" (without the quotes).

Return value

array Array, both the keys and the values are the matching tables.

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, get its schema driver, and call findTables() on it. E.g. $injected_database->schema()->findTables($table_expression);

See also

\Drupal\Core\Database\Schema::findTables()

Related topics

Schema API
API to handle database schemas.
2 calls to db_find_tables()
ModuleTestBase::assertTableCount in core/modules/system/src/Tests/Module/ModuleTestBase.php
Assert there are tables that begin with the specified base table name.
simpletest_clean_database in core/modules/simpletest/simpletest.module
Removes prefixed tables from the database from crashed tests.

File

core/includes/database.inc, line 680
Core systems for the database layer.

Code

function db_find_tables($table_expression) {
  return Database::getConnection()
    ->schema()
    ->findTables($table_expression);
}