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Where does Drupal keep block information in the database?Where does Drupal keep block information in the database?
Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on May 15, 2007 - 12:17pm
Questions you'd want answered desperately fast if you did something remarkably stupid such as putting invalid PHP code in a block that breaks your entire site, even if you were lucky – I mean foresightful – enough to limit that darned block to a single node.
where is custom block text stored in drupal database
where is block data stored in drupal database
based on this API
http://api.drupal.org/api/5/function/block_example_contents
appears to be in the variable table
But that's not the case at all.
It is in fact looking at this API-
http://api.drupal.org/api/5/function/block_box_delete_submit
what I'm trying to say is that block text is stored in the bleeding "boxes" table in drupal databases.
I bet if I'd used Drupal 3 or something, the term boxes for blocks would make sense to me.
Questions you'd want answered desperately fast if you did something remarkably stupid such as putting invalid PHP code in a block that breaks your entire site, even if you were lucky – I mean foresightful – enough to limit that darned block to a single node.
where is custom block text stored in drupal database
where is block data stored in drupal database
based on this API
http://api.drupal.org/api/5/function/block_example_contents
appears to be in the variable table
But that's not the case at all.
It is in fact looking at this API-
http://api.drupal.org/api/5/function/block_box_delete_submit
what I'm trying to say is that block text is stored in the bleeding "boxes" table in drupal databases.
I bet if I'd used Drupal 3 or something, the term boxes for blocks would make sense to me.
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Thanks
Thanks
Very Helpful!
I was just about to try some thing drastic, and thought I'd better find out how to un-do it if I screwed up.
Now I know! Who would have thought of looking in "boxes" (although I'm sure I would have if desperate enough).
I actually did screw up my site, but clicking the back button returned me to the edit block page and I was able to fix it.
By the way, what captcha do you use? Mine doesn't work!
Thanks!
Thanks a lot for this! I went searching in all of the obvious tables for block data, and boxes did not even cross my mind... I have been working with Drupal for over 6 months and I have never used that term used before.
No problem! And just to keep you on your toes
Drupal 7 kills the boxes table, effectively renaming it block_custom.
Thanks for saving...
my life!
"Boxes"!!! I'd never check this one!!!
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