Database Abstraction Layer

Copyright © by Karsten Dambekalns <k.dambekalns@no spam pleasefishfarm.de>
Published under the Open Content License available from http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml

Table Of Contents

• 1. Database Abstraction Layer
  • 1.1. Introduction
    • What does it do?
    • Technical details
    • Working databases
  • 1.2. Configuration
    • Introduction
    • $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['EXTCONF']['dbal']
    • ->handlerCfg
    • ->mapping
    • ->debug
    • Database-specific configuration issues
  • 1.3. The DBAL Debug backend module
    • The debug log
    • Viewing cached database information
    • Viewing the configuration
  • 1.4. Installing from scratch with DBAL
    • Introduction
    • Perparing setup
    • Doing the actual setup
  • 1.5. Writing DBAL compliant TYPO3 extensions
    • Introduction
    • SQL standard
    • Coding Guidelines
  • 1.6. Known problems
    • Results of database comparison operations
    • Changing of table or field definitions through DBAL
    • Database Check in Backend
    • Errors when using DBAL with the „native“ handler type
    • Bugs
  • 1.7. To-Do list

This document is related to version 0.5.0 of the extension dbal.