[drupal-devel] Getting rid of global variables

[neil at civicspacelabs.org]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:43:10PM +0200, Adrian Rossouw wrote:
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> On 30 Sep 2005, at 7:34 PM, neil at civicspacelabs.org wrote:
> >How about drupal_(set|get)_global(). And drupal_(set|get)_object() can
> >be used to get statically cached objects (nodes, terms, users,
> >vocabularies, etc) from the db.
> Dude. I love that =)
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> but maybe call it drupal_(set|get)_static() ..
> pseudo code for all those functions with static's in them would be
> 
> if (!($obj = drupal_get_static('obj', null)) {
>    $obj = db_result(db_query('select blah'));

This will probably be some sort of callback system. $module and $type
would be arguments for the generic static caching function and then call
$module_get_$type().

>    drupal_set_static('obj', $obj);
> }

-Neil