wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php:2684Adds column to a database table, if it doesn't already exist.
$table_namestring$column_namestring$create_ddlstringboolfunction maybe_add_column( $table_name, $column_name, $create_ddl ) { global $wpdb; foreach ( $wpdb->get_col( "DESC $table_name", 0 ) as $column ) { if ( $column === $column_name ) { return true; } } // Didn't find it, so try to create it. $wpdb->query( $create_ddl ); // We cannot directly tell that whether this succeeded! foreach ( $wpdb->get_col( "DESC $table_name", 0 ) as $column ) { if ( $column === $column_name ) { return true; } } return false;}Introduced in 1.3.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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