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function db_drop_table

db_drop_table($table)

Drops a table.

Parameters

$table: The table to be dropped.

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 dropTable() on it. For example, $injected_database->schema()->dropTable($table);

See also

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

Related topics

Schema API
API to handle database schemas.

File

core/includes/database.inc, line 724
Core systems for the database layer.

Code

function db_drop_table($table) {
  return Database::getConnection()->schema()->dropTable($table);
}

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