I’ve recently switched to a rather rad workflow involving a local copy of our website run through MAMP using a git repository.
We’ve recently started working on a bigger set of changes that require a feature branch. But, these changes also will require WordPress to be upgraded to 3.3, requiring database changes. Making it impossible to use the same database.
I was able to come up with this nifty technique for determining which DB to use.
$stringfromfile = file('.git/HEAD', FILE_USE_INCLUDE_PATH); $stringfromfile = $stringfromfile[0]; //get the string from the array $explodedstring = explode("/", $stringfromfile); //separate out by the "/" in the string $branchname = trim($explodedstring[2]); //get the one that is always the branch name // ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** // if($branchname == "master") { /** The name of the database for WordPress */ define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress_local'); } else { define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress_new'); } |
That’s all there is to it. It works flawlessly.
Happy coding.
