site_update

This module is for fairly advanced Drupal users. It helps manage database settings as they are shared between multiple developers, and also between dev, staging and live versions of a website.

Read the (verbose) introduction.

Be sure to read the README.txt before you enable and use the module! Once enabled:

a) There's a special copy of Drupal where the settings can be changed. It's called the "base".
b) Each table might contain settings and data. It uses database settings to reserve a range of IDs.

The site_update.module does some of the work for you. You have to remember to make settings changes on the special "base" copy of you site. And use a special script to "dump" those settings to a file. The file can then be treated like source code. So it can be checked into a version control system and shared among developers that way.

It is a little tricky to start using site_update on a site that already has a large database. It works best when you use it from the very beginning of every project. I highly recommend you give it a try on your next Drupal site.

Known problems and limitations include:

* The 2.x branch is close to being database agnostic. Primarily tested on mysql, but the goal is to work with any database.

Please note, the 7.x branch is compatible with Drupal 7.14 and higher. Drupal made a compatibility breaking change in 7.14 by changing PDO configuration from case-insensitive to case-sensitive.

Downloads

This project page is broken. For reasons I don't understand, it won't publish the 7.x-2.x build here. That's the recommended version. Find it on the site_update releases page.