Installer fails to detect InnoDB on MySQL 5.6+

[jonathanvaughn]

app/code/core/Mage/Install/Model/Installer/Db/Mysql4.php tries to use have_innodb to check for the presence of InnoDB support. It should instead (or perhaps, also) check using SHOW ENGINES - have_innodb has been deprecated since MySQL 5.1 and removed in 5.6.

Currently, both for Magento 1.x and 2.x, we have to modify Mage_Install_Model_Installer_Db_Mysql4::supportEngine to return true (since we know we have InnoDB) on our MySQL 5.6 installations to work around this.

[TimVroom]

Currently i modified the function to this:

$variables  = $this->_getConnection()
            ->fetchPairs('SHOW ENGINES');
        return (isset($variables['InnoDB']) && $variables['InnoDB'] != 'NO');

Should work also on older mysql installs

[magento-team]

It has been fixed and will be published with the next update

[drmmr763]

I'm having this issue in Magento 1.7.0.2, I know I have innoDB installed and supported with Mysql 5.6. Is this going to be updated in the 1.7 branch?