Are you sure something like this wouldn't be better with hook_requirements()? Nancy Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. ________________________________ From: Christian López Espínola <clopez@emergya.es> To: development@drupal.org Sent: Sat, February 26, 2011 6:02:08 PM Subject: [development] Variable overriding in SimpleTest environments Hi, I'm trying to build with SimpleTest some acceptance tests for the D6 based sites I'm developing. For achieving this, I am creating a module that checks if configuration values are the correct ones, with tests like this one: public function testFileDirectoryPathIsTheRightOne () { $dirpath = variable_get('file_directory_path', 'sites/default/files'); // tried file_directory_path() too instead of reading the variable. $this->pass($dirpath); $this->assertEqual( 'sites/default/files', $dirpath, 'The file directory path is correct' ); } But (obviously) the simpletest environment that is being built overrides this setting (p.e.: file_directory_path() and the variable 'file_directory_path' have the value sites/default/files/simpletest/275031). Is any way of checking the values of the original site? I'm thinking about checking that $dirpath begins with 'sites/default/files', but not sure if there is a better way of assuring this). Thanks for your time! -- Christian López Espínola Área de Proyectos Emergya Consultoría Tfno: +34 954 51 75 77 Fax: +34 954 51 64 73 www.emergya.es