Drop a field.
$table: The table to be altered.
$field: The field to be dropped.
TRUE if the field was successfully dropped, FALSE if there was no field by that name to begin with.
Overrides Schema::dropField
public function dropField($table, $field) {
if (!$this
->fieldExists($table, $field)) {
return FALSE;
}
$old_schema = $this
->introspectSchema($table);
$new_schema = $old_schema;
unset($new_schema['fields'][$field]);
foreach ($new_schema['indexes'] as $index => $fields) {
foreach ($fields as $key => $field_name) {
if ($field_name == $field) {
unset($new_schema['indexes'][$index][$key]);
}
}
// If this index has no more fields then remove it.
if (empty($new_schema['indexes'][$index])) {
unset($new_schema['indexes'][$index]);
}
}
$this
->alterTable($table, $old_schema, $new_schema);
return TRUE;
}