Kevin Coyle kevin-coyle

This document contains a common database updates in Drupal 7 projects.

Change a field type from textarea to textfield (wipe out its data)

Let's suppose we want to change field_article_summary from text to textarea, but we do not care about loosing its current data.

Start by removing the field through the Admin Interface in your local environment. Then, add the field with the new configuration and recreate the feature where it was exported. Finally, add the following database update:

	until nc -z mysql 3306; do
	echo "$(date) - waiting for database to be up..."
	sleep 1
	done

	#!/bin/bash

	#
	# This script will mount /Users in the boot2docker VM using NFS (instead of the
	# default vboxsf). It's probably not a good idea to run it while there are
	# Docker containers running in boot2docker.
	#
	# Usage: sudo ./boot2docker-use-nfs.sh
	#