function Schema::fieldExists
Check if a column exists in the given table.
Parameters
string $table: The name of the table in drupal (no prefixing).
string $column: The name of the column.
Return value
bool TRUE if the given column exists, otherwise FALSE.
3 calls to Schema::fieldExists()
- Schema::addField in core/modules/ mysql/ src/ Driver/ Database/ mysql/ Schema.php 
- Add a new field to a table.
- Schema::changeField in core/modules/ mysql/ src/ Driver/ Database/ mysql/ Schema.php 
- Change a field definition.
- Schema::dropField in core/modules/ mysql/ src/ Driver/ Database/ mysql/ Schema.php 
- Drop a field.
2 methods override Schema::fieldExists()
- Schema::fieldExists in core/modules/ sqlite/ src/ Driver/ Database/ sqlite/ Schema.php 
- Check if a column exists in the given table.
- Schema::fieldExists in core/modules/ pgsql/ src/ Driver/ Database/ pgsql/ Schema.php 
- Check if a column exists in the given table.
File
- 
              core/lib/ Drupal/ Core/ Database/ Schema.php, line 248 
Class
- Schema
- Provides a base implementation for Database Schema.
Namespace
Drupal\Core\DatabaseCode
public function fieldExists($table, $column) {
  $condition = $this->buildTableNameCondition($table);
  $condition->condition('column_name', $column);
  $condition->compile($this->connection, $this);
  // Normally, we would heartily discourage the use of string
  // concatenation for conditionals like this however, we
  // couldn't use \Drupal::database()->select() here because it would prefix
  // information_schema.tables and the query would fail.
  // Don't use {} around information_schema.columns table.
  return (bool) $this->connection
    ->query("SELECT 1 FROM information_schema.columns WHERE " . (string) $condition, $condition->arguments())
    ->fetchField();
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