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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by MA_19 0n February 25 2009

I was testing out some ideas using a module I’d created using the module creator, when I decided to add some new database tables to the mysql4-install-0.1.0.php file for my module.

Everything I found on the net said that Magento would create the new tables next time the module ran, but this didn’t seem to be happening.
I tried a lot of things, but in the end I found that the first time Magento reads a module’s etc/config.xml it writes the value of into the core_config table in the database.

Magento will not then run the mysql4-install-0.1.0.php file again whilst the version number in core_config matches the one in the config.xml

I removed the entry for my module in core_config. Magento then ran the mysql4-install-0.1.0.php and created my new tables smile

That one took me a while to figure out – so I thought I’d share.

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