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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Really, I’m not trying to tell you
that this is all your problem, but I am trying to help you get to the bottom of
what your problem is. I’m also trying to make sure you understand how the
api’s are intended to be used, so that you don’t spend time beating
your head against the wall here. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Saying that you’re not going
to use the variable_set function to get the value into the database, is saying
you won’t use the api that’s intended for doing just that. You’ve
suggested it is a bug, and I’m here to tell you it’s by
design. It needs to be used or else you need to circumvent all the
caching that goes on, and yes that will be hard. The static
variable is part of the caching, and there is an additional database cache that
also is used. You may try executing a DELETE FROM CACHE statement from
your SQL line to see if that’s what is getting in your way. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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I expect that unless you delete drupal’s cache manually every time you
alter the database, you’re going to have problems getting the value back
out, unless you use variable_set to get that value in the database. All the
variables are cached, in multiple layers and multiple ways in order to improve
performance. I would encourage you to use variable_set to alter the
database values, as that’s what it’s there for. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I certainly had no way of knowing what php
version you were running when I sent you that bug reference, but I do know that
the static variable is not supposed to overwrite a global in any version of PHP,
and that the static $conf=’’ line is a normal accepted way of initializing
a static variable caching that’s used throughout drupal. I’ve even
used this in several of my own PHP applications. I’m trying to make
sense as to why when you changed the variable names, you get different behavior.
That’s why I thought of that bug. There may be other reasons, such
as you haven’t found all of the references to the global $conf in the
drupal source code. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I can tell you that I have multiple sites
running on php 5.2.2, php 5.1 and a remote hosted php 5.x and the variable_set/variable_get
apis are used extensively in all the modules that I have written. I have
not used the settings.php override mechanism, but I can tell you that I have
extensive experience using the variable_get/variable_set successfully in
multiple versions of drupal on multiple versions of PHP. Variable_init
as I’ve said, was not intended to be called directly. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>In summary if you don’t feel you
need to use the settings.php override mechanism then use variable_set to change
the value in the database, use variable_get to get the last value set by
variable_set (or the default if variable_set has never been called)..
Any other manipulations should be done using a different structure such as your
own static, global or session construct. In multi-site hosting
environments, where you want the value of variable_get to be overridden because
you’ve got to make it dynamic based on the settings.php file in play,
only then use the settings.php override mechanism. Don’t bother
with the database value cause it shouldn’t ever actually matter. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If you continue to be disatisfied with the
help being provided on this list, and you really believe that there is a
drupal core bug here (which I really haven’t seen strong evidence of, but
I’ve been wrong before) then I’d encourage you to post an issue on
drupal.org. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Anyway, it sounds like you’d prefer
to hear from others so, I’ll stay silent for a while and let others
confirm or refute my expertise here. (really either are welcome). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Dave<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Scott Matthews<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, January 29, 2008
12:56 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">support@drupal.org</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [support] Issues with
initializing Variables on startup..</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></span>I
understand that this bug report seems to be the same issue, but I'm a little
troubled at the fact that I'm running PHP 5.2.3 and this is listed as having
been fixed about a year and a half ago. I really do not mean to come off
as being too forceful but can anyone on this distribution say that with PHP
5.2.3 and Drupal 5.3 that they have tried setting a variable in the database
directly (not specifically using variable_set or variable_init) and their
application was able to pick up the value using variable_get? Or even,
been able to follow the suggested feature of setting the $conf array in
settings.php to override a variable set previously.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></span>I
see this is a problem. I see the code where it's happening and I would
like to know if this case has been done and it really is only happening on the
multiple machines as well as my local that my application is deployed on.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Jan 29, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Metzler, David wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName">Ahh,
static variables are supposed to be local in scope to the function that
they are in. And they behave a bit differently than normal
variables. <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>static $conf=’’ assignment doesn’t execute the
second time the function gets called. It only executes at the initial
creation of the static variable. This variable later gets converted to an
array, but the next time the function gets called it should retain the previous
value of $conf. It would not be reset to a string. You actually
need to set static variables to this empty strings to get them to work properly
with arrays. I’ve done that several times before. <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>It’s worth noting that this $conf <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>SHOULD</span></b> be completely independent of the global $conf variable,
and that doesn’t appear to be the case for you. <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>It’s possible this is a PHP bug, but I’m not really
sure here. There are some references to such a bug at: <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><a href="http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=38287">http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=38287</a><u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Is it possible that you are being bitten by one of these? <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> I have many modules that work as you want. The
variable_get call pulls the database value without problem.
It’s quite possible that once the PHP bug is resolved,
everything will work they way you initially tried it. <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>And, no you should not need to call variable_init. <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Hope that helps. <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
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size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:
bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> support-bounces@drupal.org [<a
href="mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org">mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org</a>]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Scott Matthews<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, January 29, 2008
9:43 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:personname u2:st="on"><a
href="mailto:support@drupal.org">support@drupal.org</a></st1:personname><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [support] Issues with
initializing Variables on startup..</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Conf_init calls
conf_path. the first line in conf path is:<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>As I said, once I
globally changed the intended array variable to something other than $conf
($config_vars for instance) it worked as expected.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Now, as I
mentioned before, before I tried to initialize in the settings.php file, I just
relied on the database value that I set. This was not being retrieved
when I called variables_get() and variables_get() was only returning the value
I had as the default. The only thing I can think of from what you are
saying is that in my module I have to specifically call variables_init() for it
to work. Is that true? when in the stack is variables_init called?<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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0px'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
Helvetica;color:black'>Scott Matthews<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
Helvetica;color:black'>Senior Developer<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
Helvetica;color:black'>(w) 617-227-1855 x164<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
Helvetica;color:black'>(m) 617-710-8430<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
Helvetica;color:black'>(f) 617-224-5388<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
Helvetica;color:black'><a href="mailto:smatthews@optaros.com">smatthews@optaros.com</a><u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
Helvetica;color:black'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'></span></span></span><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Jan 29, 2008,
at 12:04 PM, Metzler, David wrote:<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
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<u1:p></u1:p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u3:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName">Yes
true, I was mistaken about the variables being instatitated. But these values
are initially loaded from the database by the variable_init function, called in
the drupal bootstrap process before settings.php is loaded. Yes you can
override these in settings.php, in which case the database value doesn’t
matter, but hey are still meant to be site configuration values that do not
change. As the settings.php file indicates you don’t normally use
this method, unless you’re rally trying to something vhost specific.
They are not intended to house global variables that you intend to change
during the page load. Variable_set is designed to change the
database given values and is functioning as designed. It’s used by
the admin pages to alter the site specific values. <u3:p></u3:p></u3:smarttagtype></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u3:p> </u3:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>90% of all use cases are handled using variable_get() to get the
site specific configuration settings from the database and loaded in
cache. It’s only in weird multi-site hosting cases that you
would ever be overriding the values retrieved by variable_get in settings.php.
It is not the preferred method of handling values that you expect to change
during a page load or between page loads on a site. <u3:p></u3:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u3:p> </u3:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Conf_init() in my inspection of the source code on drupal_api
initializes conf to an array() not a string. Where do you see this behavior? <u3:p></u3:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u3:p> </u3:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Dave<u3:p></u3:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u3:p> </u3:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:
bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> <a href="mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org">support-bounces@drupal.org</a>
[<a href="mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org">mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org</a>]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Scott Matthews<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, January 29, 2008
8:19 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:personname u4:st="on"><a
href="mailto:support@drupal.org">support@drupal.org</a></st1:personname><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [support] Issues with
initializing Variables on startup..</span></font><u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><u3:p> </u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I don't believe
you fully understood me.<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><u3:p> </u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>First off,
variable_get does NOT retrieve from the database. if you look in the code
it ONLY retrieves from that $conf variable that variable_set stores the
variable in when it sets to the database. If, as you suggest David, it
really should retrieve from the database then it is not working as defined.<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><u3:p> </u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>function
variable_get($name, $default) {<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> global
$conf;<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><u3:p> </u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> return
isset($conf[$name]) ? $conf[$name] : $default;<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>}<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><u3:p> </u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><u3:p> </u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><u3:p> </u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Second, according
to the comments in the settings.php, you can initially override any variables
stored in the database in the settings.php file by setting the same variable
that variable_get and variable_set uses:<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><u3:p> </u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>/**<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> * Variable
overrides:<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> *<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> * To
override specific entries in the 'variable' table for this site,<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> * set them
here. You usually don't need to use this feature. This is<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> * useful in
a configuration file for a vhost or directory, rather than<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> * the
default settings.php. Any configuration setting from the 'variable'<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> * table can
be given a new value.<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
</div>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> *<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> * Remove the
leading hash signs to enable.<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
</div>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> *<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>/# </span></font><span
class=apple-style-span><b><u><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.5pt;
font-weight:bold'>$conf</span></font></u></b></span> = array(<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>#
'site_name' => 'My Drupal site',<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
</div>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>#
'theme_default' => 'minnelli',<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>#
'anonymous' => 'Visitor',<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
</div>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'># );<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><u3:p> </u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
</div>
<div><span style='orphans: 2;text-align:auto;widows: 2;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0;word-spacing:0px'><span
style='orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px;-webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font
size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
Helvetica;color:black'><span style='orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:
0px'><u3:p> </u3:p></span></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<span style='orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:
0px'>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
Helvetica;color:black'>Scott Matthews<u3:p></u3:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Jan 29, 2008,
at 11:04 AM, Metzler, David wrote:<u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u5:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName">I
think you’re confusing two completely independent constructs. <u5:p></u5:p></u5:smarttagtype></span></font><u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u5:p> </u5:p></span></font><u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Variable_get and variable_set are used to store system wide
settings that should persist in the database. They are never (to my
knowledge) instantiated as PHP variables. The caching structure is meant to
reduce the number of database hits involved in loading variables, and should
not generally be accessed directly. Multiple calls to variable_get should
leverage the cached variables as appropriate. <u5:p></u5:p></span></font><u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>The variables in settings.php can be used, you can define your own
global variables there, but if you want them to persist between page loads you
need to do that yourself. IN your hooks you can reference these variables
after defining them as globals, but be careful with namespace collisions.
I usually create a global variable that has the same name as my module and
store everying inside it (as an associative array). <u5:p></u5:p></span></font><u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Finally session variables can be used and will persist in the
database for the duration of a session. <u5:p></u5:p></span></font><u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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Hope that clarifies things. It sounds like drupal is behaving as designed
here. <u5:p></u5:p></span></font><u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Dave<u5:p></u5:p></span></font><u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Scott Matthews<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, January 29, 2008
7:37 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:personname u6:st="on"><a
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Ron Trevarrow<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [support] Issues with
initializing Variables on startup..</span></font><u5:p></u5:p><u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I found what
Appears to be a bug (or two) with initializing variables in Drupal.<u5:p></u5:p><u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>It is suggested
that you can uncomment and set initial variable values in settings.php with the
$conf array. In doing so, and not seeing my variables set when retrieving
using variable_get, I discovered that conf_init(), when called to initialize
the configure file path, it sets $conf to a string. I know that since it
initializes settings.php within the context it conceptually SHOULD reset it to
a variable, but it doesn't. I proved this by changing the variable array
name in settings.php, variable_get, variable_set, variable_init and conf_init
to $config_vars and the values I initialized in settings.php were reflected
when my application later retrieved them using variable_get.<u5:p></u5:p><u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>This bug is
currently hindering the flexibility of an application that I'm writing that
will be deployed to different environments. I initially tried to set the
variables in the 'variable' table of the Database in order to retrieve them
with variable_get but that method only accesses the cached variables in $conf
(or in my case, $config_vars. Is this on purpose? I see that
variable_set will not only set the cached variable but will also set into the
database. This seems to be a bug as well to me. Can someone clarify
this for me?<u5:p></u5:p><u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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