abstract public function DatabaseConnection::driver

Returns the type of database driver.

This is not necessarily the same as the type of the database itself. For instance, there could be two MySQL drivers, mysql and mysql_mock. This function would return different values for each, but both would return "mysql" for databaseType().

1 call to DatabaseConnection::driver()
DatabaseConnection::getDriverClass in drupal/includes/database/database.inc
Gets the driver-specific override class if any for the specified class.
3 methods override DatabaseConnection::driver()
DatabaseConnection_mysql::driver in drupal/includes/database/mysql/database.inc
Returns the type of database driver.
DatabaseConnection_pgsql::driver in drupal/includes/database/pgsql/database.inc
Returns the type of database driver.
DatabaseConnection_sqlite::driver in drupal/includes/database/sqlite/database.inc
Returns the type of database driver.

File

drupal/includes/database/database.inc, line 1249
Core systems for the database layer.

Class

DatabaseConnection
Base Database API class.

Code

public abstract function driver();