new function ChangeField into the manager to change a column without …

[flolopdel]

…drop the existing content, you must update the schema xml changing the field before call this function

What does it do?

Change a existing column without drop the existing content, you must update the schema xml changing the field before call this function

Why is it needed?

To change a column field without drop the old values

Related issue(s)/PR(s)

[Mark-H]

Hi @flolopdel!

Thanks, this looks really interesting and I've wondered why we didn't have a method like that before...

Unfortunately though this is the wrong place to send that pull request... all changes to xPDO need to go into the main xPDO repo at https://github.com/modxcms/xpdo (probably the 2.x branch - the 3.x branch is newer but wont be incorporated until MODX 3).

The xPDO repo gets pulled into MODX at a later point.

Maybe worth changing the method name to renameField? There's already an alterField which can be used to change the position of the field on the table, so rename might be a bit more descriptive in what this does to avoid confusion.

[Jako]

The PR was opened on xPDO now. So I close it here.