Database Abstraction Layer

Extension key:dbal Version:8.4 Language:en Description:Manual of the system extension DBAL, which provides an abstraction layer in order to allow easy usage of TYPO3 with a broad variety of database management systems. Keywords:database, abstraction, oracle, postgresql, mssql Copyright:2000-2014 Author:TYPO3 CMS Core Development Team License:Open Content License available from www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml Rendered:2021-07-22 18:17

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Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Configuration
  • Introduction
  • $TYPO3_CONF_VARS[‘EXTCONF’][‘dbal’]
  • ->handlerCfg
  • ->mapping
  • ->debug
  • Database-specific configuration hints
  • Memcached
• The DBAL Debug backend module
  • The debug log
  • Viewing cached database information
  • Viewing the configuration
  • SQL check
• Installing from scratch with DBAL
  • Introduction
  • Preparing setup
  • Doing the actual setup
• Writing DBAL compliant TYPO3 extensions
  • Introduction
  • SQL standard
  • Small Cookbook
  • Coding Guidelines
• Known problems
  • Database-specific issues
  • Results of database comparison operations
  • Changing of table or field definitions through DBAL
  • Database Check in Backend
  • Sequences collide with imported data
  • Some field names are too long
  • Creating a database from within the install tool
• FAQ
• Bugs
• To-Do list
  • New Features?
  • General TODO:
  • Oracle
• Appendices
  • Using Oracle with TYPO3
    • Installing and Configuring ADOdb and DBAL
    • Configuring Database Access
  • Using PostgreSQL with TYPO3
    • Installing and Configuring ADOdb and DBAL
    • Configuring Database Access
    • Compatibility Tuning
• Index: Labels for Crossreferencing