Schema

At this moment all the features presented here are available only for the officially supported RDBMS.

Opis Database provides an unified API, that covers multiple relational database management systems, and which allows developers to manipulate tables or to obtain other information about a database.

Accessing the database associated schema is done by calling the schema method.

use Opis\Database\Database;
use Opis\Database\Connection;

$connection = new Connection(
    'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=test', 
    'username', 
    'password'
);

$db = new Database($connection);

$schema = $db->schema();

Table information

Obtaining a list of tables from the current database is done by using the getTables method.

$tables = $db->schema()->getTables();

foreach ($tables as $table) {
    //do something
}

By default the list of tables obtained by calling this method is cached for performance reasons. If you want to obtain an uncached list of tables then pass true as an argument to the getTables method.

$tables = $db->schema()->getTables(true);

foreach ($tables as $table) {
    //do something
}

You can check if a specific table exists by passing the table name as the first argument to the hasTable method.

if ($db->schema()->hasTable('users')) {
    //do something
}

This method accepts as an optional second argument a boolean value that indicates if the checking for the table’s existence should be done by using an uncached list of tables. The default value of this optional argument is false.

if ($db->schema()->hasTable('users', true)) {
    //do something
}

Getting the columns of a table

Getting a table’s columns list is done by using the getColumns method. The method takes as an argument the name of the table.

$columns = $db->schema()->getColumns('users');

foreach ($columns as $column) {
    //do something
}

If you want to obtain an uncached list of columns then pass true as an argument to the getColumns method.

$columns = $db->schema()->getColumns('users', true);

foreach ($columns as $column) {
    //do something
}