The connection management has improved as well. Rather than just being able to define connections in settings. You can also mark targets to be ignored temporarily, which is important for replication support. On the support front, we now require MySQL 5. Earlier versions are mostly out of support by now or will be during the Drupal 7 life cycle, so the effort required to continue supporting them in Drupal 7 and therefore not using features from later versions is not worth the effort.
We've gone a step beyond that, however. There have also been a number of API improvements as well. Select queries in particular have gotten a fair bit of love, and now support a convenient shorthand for adding multiple fields at once as well as support for subselect queries. And of course, we have extensive documentation for most of the API in the handbooks. It even has its own path alias! There's plenty yet to be done, however; far more than the few people focusing on the database layer can do themselves, especially when we still need to get everything past the gatekeepers of Dries and webchick.
If you're looking for a place to get involved in Drupal, this is a great place to start! We desperately need people to pick up some issues and carry them home, or to review patches that are still pending and need review before they can go to the committers.
If Drupal 7 shipped today, the database layer would still be incomplete. This cannot be allowed to stand! Let's make this our new year's resolution: The database layer fully complete and all of core converted by the end of January.
Think we can do it? Here's how you can help:. These issues are the most important, as they are blocking further work. Much of the groundwork has already been laid, but it needs to be carried home. OK, these aren't necessarily earth-shattering tasks but they need to happen anyway.
Some need someone to review them, others need to be written. In either case, don't just hit-and-run. Stick around and help guide the issue home. Grab a module and post a patch! Right now Postgres doesn't work properly in Drupal 7, and there's grumbling about removing it if we can't get it to work.
The alternative is to have Drupal 7 held back for Postgres support. You will need the following knowledge and skills. If you need a review, check out the Resources section at the bottom of this page. Create a function to put the data into the new table created earlier. Set the default values of the new fields. Break down functions to set and retrieve data so they can be re-used. Skip to main content. Check your version This tutorial covers a topic in Drupal 7 which may or may not be the version you're using.
First, the easy part. You can add external connections as needed by including the following in settings. Passwords should never be stored directly in your application codebase or git repository. Passwords should be encrypted and stored in a private, secure location with carefully managed access. The problem is that many Drupal-specific host providers like Pantheon, Platform. To save your database password securely on Pantheon with Terminus Secrets Plugin, type this in your favorite command line utility replace site and env with your site name and environment from Pantheon :.
Export the remote database connection from the command line replace site and env with your site name and environment for the remote Pantheon database :. Save the connection info to your Drupal 8 environment, where you will be connecting to the external database:.
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