[support] Issues with initializing Variables on startup..

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Scott Matthews <smatthews at optaros.com>:

>
> 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:
>
> /**
>  * Variable overrides:
>  *
>  * To override specific entries in the 'variable' table for this site,
>  * set them here. You usually don't need to use this feature. This is
>  * useful in a configuration file for a vhost or directory, rather than
>  * the default settings.php. Any configuration setting from the  'variable'
>  * table can be given a new value.
>  *
>  * Remove the leading hash signs to enable.
>  *
> /# $conf = array(
> #   'site_name' => 'My Drupal site',
> #   'theme_default' => 'minnelli',
> #   'anonymous' => 'Visitor',
> # );
>

The ``bug'' is in conf_init() of includes/bootstrap.ini.  The problem 
is that $conf isn't declared global and settings.php is included within 
it.  This means that $conf isn't registered as a global variable so the 
settings are never reserved.

Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/
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