[development] An automated way of locating unused modules?

Jamie Holly hovercrafter at earthlink.net
Sun Jan 9 19:59:18 UTC 2011


OOPS for disabled modules should be:

SELECT name FROM system WHERE type='module' AND status='0' AND filename 
NOT LIKE 'module/%';

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net
http://www.hollyit.net


On 1/9/2011 2:55 PM, Jamie Holly wrote:
> I would add one little thing to that query:
>
> SELECT name FROM system WHERE type='module' AND status='1' AND 
> filename NOT LIKE 'module/%';
>
> That way you don't get Drupal's core modules in the list.
>
> Jamie Holly
> http://www.intoxination.net
> http://www.hollyit.net
>
> On 1/9/2011 2:26 PM, Cameron Eagans wrote:
>> I don't think you'd even need a module to do this. You can get a list 
>> of currently used modules by doing:
>>
>> SELECT name FROM system WHERE type='module' AND status='1';
>>
>> You could likely write a quick script to compare the list returned by 
>> that SQL statement to your modules list.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Cameron
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 12:04, James Benstead 
>> <james.benstead at gmail.com <mailto:james.benstead at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Originally posted to http://drupal.org/node/1017416:
>>
>>         I have a list of 60+ modules that I download, via drush, to
>>         each new Drupal site that I build. I then enable whatever
>>         modules are needed for the specific site I'm working on as I
>>         carry out the build.
>>
>>
>>         This means that once the site is launched, there may be
>>         modules that are not being called by Drupal core but that are
>>         still enabled and/or installed.
>>
>>
>>         Is there an automated way - a specific module, for example -
>>         that will tell me which of the modules that are enabled on a
>>         site are being called by Drupal core?
>>
>>
>>         Secondly, is there any performance implication for having
>>         lots of modules installed on a site if they are not enabled?
>>
>>
>>     The answer to the second question seems to be "no". And It
>>     doesn't seem that such a module does exist - would it be
>>     technically possible to write this module for D6?
>>
>>     --Jim
>>     --
>>     My IM and Skype details are at http://state68.com/contact
>>
>>
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