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.. _deprecation-61829:

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Deprecation: #61829 - Deprecate config.classFile DBAL option
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See :issue:`61829`

Description
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The DBAL option `config.classFile` has been marked for deprecation,
and will be removed with TYPO3 CMS 8.


Impact
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Using `config.classFile` option will throw a deprecation message.


Affected Installations
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Installations which use a user-defined DBAL database-handler.


Migration
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Load the class using the autoloader.


.. index:: PHP-API, ext:dbal