[development] low hanging fruit for Drupal 6: variable defaults

Aaron Winborn aaron at culturefix.org
Thu May 3 14:23:53 UTC 2007


There are times one might try to access a variable defined by another 
module, such as variable_get('site_name', 'Drupal'); This would make it 
easier to avoid having to remember later if that's supposed to be 
variable_get('site_name', 'drupal'), variable_get('site_name', 
t('Drupal')), variable_get('site_name', SYSTEM_SITE_NAME_DEFAULT), or 
whatever. I believe just calling variable_get('site_name') would 
certainly makes things more standard, and easier to maintain.

And having a namespace available would be the cherry on top.

Aaron Winborn

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> variable_get('my_fine_var', MY_DEFAULT_VALUE) is simple enough.  I 
> don't understand why we would need to add this complication and overhead.
>
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