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Using hook_update_n() for to update your Drupal website database

Note that this article applies primarily to Drupal 6. When developing features or other modules, I often find myself making changes to the module dependencies or other aspects after my module has first been moved to the staging site. I use hook_update_N() for that. Here's how.

Initial install hook

Features normally don't do anything to the database, so typically we won't have an implementation of hook_install(), but we can still do stuff like add URL aliases using the install hook.

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The title of this post is a

The title of this post is a bit of a misnomer since you are changing things in the database, but you are using API functions rather than direct queries.

Secondly you are making this a bit more complicated than it needs to be, your dependency example can be reduced to:

<?php
function myfeature_update_6001() {
 
$return = array();
 
$modules = array('module_x', 'module_y'); // you must also put these modules in your .info file as dependencies.

 
drupal_install_modules($modules); // note that this is for Drupal 6

 
foreach ($modules as $module) {
   
$return[] = array(
     
'success' => module_exists($module),
     
'query' => $module . ' installed.',
    );
  }

 
// Clear whatever caches are necessary here.
 
cache_clear_all('*', 'cache', TRUE);

  return
$return;
}
?>

Of course you are right about

Of course you are right about the database. Maybe a better way to put it is "operations that don't modify the database schema".

Also: thanks for the more concise way of writing this.

Cheers,

Albert.

Exactly what I was looking

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.