Question

I am coding an extension for eZPublish which has an own eZPersistantObject, so it needs an own database table.

Is there any way to provide a kind of setup.php or something, which runs on extension activation and creates the table?

Thanks for your responses.

Answer 1

Seems like when installing extensions in your CMS you are also required to do further steps manually like doing changes to the database. See http://doc.ez.no/eZ-Publish/Technical-manual/4.x/Installation/Extensions So I don’t think that eZPublish supports this kind of setup.

You can of course do such thing manually, like do a CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS on each request. A dirty solution: put your setup.php somewhere in your extension folder, make it writeable and after the first execution simply remove it. Just add unlink(__FILE__); at the end of setup.php.

If you want some cleaner solution you can have a directory with database migration scripts and a table that keeps track which of those scripts have been executed. On each request you then check if there are new migration scripts and execute, if necessary.