Drop a field.

Parameters

$table: The table to be altered.

$field: The field to be dropped.

Return value

TRUE if the field was successfully dropped, FALSE if there was no field by that name to begin with.

Overrides DatabaseSchema::dropField

File

drupal-7.x/includes/database/mysql/schema.inc, line 353

Database schema code for MySQL database servers.

Class

DatabaseSchema_mysql

Code

public function dropField($table, $field) {
  if (!$this->fieldExists($table, $field)) {
    return FALSE;
  }

  $this->connection->query('ALTER TABLE {' . $table . '} DROP `' . $field . '`');
  return TRUE;
}