-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gabor Hojtsy schrieb:
Hi,
To be able to translate variables to multiple languages in Drupal nicely, we would need a small conceptual change, which would benefit all of the Drupal developers, so I am posting the call here in hopes we have someone or a small group to pick this task up.
**We need a central place to define variable defaults**
Simple! Now whenever you need a variable, you do
variable_get('my_fine_var', 'my_default_value');
The problem with this is that you need to repeat this multiple times, and of course there is a chance you need to modify it later on, so you need to find all places a variable is used. Not good. Remember the changes from bluemarine to garland, we have been fixing theme_default errors for days, finding out places where the variable was used...
So we need a central place to define variable defaults. For Drupal 6 this is enough now:
hook_settings() { return array( 'my_fine_var' => 'my_default_value', ); }
Have fun with naming it hook_settings(), as far as I see, it is an appropriate name, and not taken at the moment :) So Drupal can do a module_invoke_all() on hook_settings() and collect defaults to all variables from the modules defining them. It gets easier and shorter to use variables:
variable_get('my_fine_var');
We should however keep an optional second argument. I don't always use the same second argument, and that's intentional. Cheers, Gerhard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGOaSvfg6TFvELooQRAkVJAKCxgx8aoZCi+RlFQ6f+Jmde6J3QDQCfSn3v dD6nu3VJlAmkd7zYcbwS2Tk= =MxzI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----