[support] drupal_get_path not found/working

[Jody Cleveland]

Just solved it:


On 8/22/07 7:42 PM, "Jody Cleveland" <cleveland at winnefox.org> wrote:

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> On 8/22/07 5:54 PM, "Cog Rusty" <cog.rusty at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 8/23/07, Jody Cleveland <cleveland at winnefox.org> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I've been running Drupal for quite some time now, and I've always had a
>>> problem that I'm finally frustrated enough  to try to fix.
>>> 
>>> For some reason, my system does not recognize drupal_get_path. I run into
>>> errors any time I try to install a module. So, what I end up needing to do
>>> is go into the .module file and change anywhere there's drupal_get_path to
>>> be the full path to that file it's looking at.
>>> 
>>> Any ideas how to fix this? Is this a drupal setting, or php?
>> 
>> 
>> Normally drupal_get_path gets the path of an item (module or theme)
>> from the 'system' table of the database. The paths stored in the
>> 'system' table are filled-in whenever you visit the
>> /admin/build/modules or the /admin/build/themes page. So, they are
>> easily updated if you move an item.
>> 
>> It would be interesting to take a look at the 'system' table to see if
>> the paths stored there seem right. Look for paths of modules or themes
>> which are causing you trouble. If they do seem right (for example
>> 'sites/all/modules/nodequeue/smartqueue.module') then the problem
>> could be in how the function works in your environment.
>> 
>> One possible cause of such a problem is a multisite with a shared
>> 'system' table where different sites use their own copies of modules
>> and themes with the same names, which are located in different paths
>> (sites/example.com/modules), and whenever the /admin/build/modules
>> page of one site is visited the shared 'system' table is updated
>> differently.

It was a php setting. In my php.ini setting, I had this:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Paths and Directories ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; UNIX: "/path1:/path2"
;include_path = ".:/php/includes"
include_path = ".:/usr/share/pear"

I changed that to this:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Paths and Directories ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; UNIX: "/path1:/path2"
include_path = ".:/php/includes"

And, now it works just fine. Found the solution here:
http://www.newmedialogic.com/taxonomy/term/57

Thank you again for taking the time to help me out with this!

- jody