Documentation & API reference
Functions
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| Name | Location | Description | Direct uses |
Strings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| drupal_strtolower |
drupal/ |
Lowercase a UTF-8 string. | 83 | |
| drupal_ucfirst |
drupal/ |
Capitalizes the first letter of a UTF-8 string. | 6 | |
| drupal_substr |
drupal/ |
Cuts off a piece of a string based on character indices and counts. | 21 | |
| entity_get_info Deprecated |
drupal/ |
Gets the entity definition for an entity type. | 73 | |
| entity_info_cache_clear |
drupal/ |
Resets the cached information about entity types. | 13 | |
| entity_invoke_bundle_hook |
drupal/ |
Notifies modules about an operation that was performed on a entity bundle. | 18 | |
| entity_load |
drupal/ |
Loads an entity from the database. | 173 | |
| entity_revision_load |
drupal/ |
Loads an entity from the database. | 5 | |
| entity_revision_delete |
drupal/ |
Deletes an entity revision. | 1 | |
| entity_load_by_uuid |
drupal/ |
Loads an entity by UUID. | 5 | |
| entity_load_multiple |
drupal/ |
Loads multiple entities from the database. | 71 | |
| entity_load_multiple_by_properties |
drupal/ |
Load entities by their property values. | 59 | |
| entity_load_unchanged |
drupal/ |
Loads the unchanged, i.e. not modified, entity from the database. | 4 | |
| entity_delete_multiple |
drupal/ |
Deletes multiple entities permanently. | 20 | |
| entity_create |
drupal/ |
Constructs a new entity object, without permanently saving it. | 264 | |
| entity_get_controller Deprecated |
drupal/ |
Gets the entity controller class for an entity type. | ||
| entity_access_controller Deprecated |
drupal/ |
Returns the entity access controller for the given entity type. | ||
| entity_form_controller Deprecated |
drupal/ |
Returns an entity form controller for the given operation. | ||
| entity_form_state_defaults |
drupal/ |
Returns the default form state for the given entity and operation. | 2 | |
| entity_form_submit |
drupal/ |
Retrieves, populates, and processes an entity form. | ||
| entity_form_submit_build_entity |
drupal/ |
Copies submitted values to entity properties for simple entity forms. | 1 | |
| entity_list_controller Deprecated |
drupal/ |
Returns an entity list controller for a given entity type. | ||
| entity_render_controller Deprecated |
drupal/ |
Returns an entity render controller for a given entity type. | ||
| entity_view_multiple |
drupal/ |
Returns the render array for the provided entities. | 9 | |
| entity_get_display |
drupal/ |
Returns the entity_display object associated to a bundle and view mode. | 18 | |
| entity_get_render_display |
drupal/ |
Returns the entity_display object used to render an entity. | 1 | |
| entity_get_form_display |
drupal/ |
Returns the entity_form_display object associated to a bundle and form mode. | 12 | |
| entity_get_render_form_display |
drupal/ |
Returns the entity_form_display object used to render an entity form. | 2 | |
| drupal_load_updates |
drupal/ |
Loads .install files for installed modules to initialize the update system. | 2 | |
| drupal_install_profile_distribution_name |
drupal/ |
Loads the installation profile, extracting its defined distribution name. | 8 | |
| drupal_detect_database_types |
drupal/ |
Detects all supported databases that are compiled into PHP. | 1 | |
| drupal_get_database_types |
drupal/ |
Returns all supported database installer objects that are compiled into PHP. | 4 | |
| drupal_rewrite_settings |
drupal/ |
Replaces values in settings.php with values in the submitted array. | 4 | |
| _drupal_rewrite_settings_is_simple |
drupal/ |
Helper for drupal_rewrite_settings(). | 1 | |
| _drupal_rewrite_settings_is_array_index |
drupal/ |
Helper for drupal_rewrite_settings(). | 1 | |
| _drupal_rewrite_settings_global |
drupal/ |
Helper for drupal_rewrite_settings(). | 1 | |
| _drupal_rewrite_settings_dump |
drupal/ |
Helper for drupal_rewrite_settings(). | 1 | |
| _drupal_rewrite_settings_dump_one |
drupal/ |
Helper for drupal_rewrite_settings(). | 2 | |
| drupal_install_config_directories |
drupal/ |
Creates the config directory and ensures it is operational. | 2 | |
| install_verify_config_directory |
drupal/ |
Checks whether a config directory exists and is writable. | 1 | |
| install_ensure_config_directory |
drupal/ |
Ensures that the config directory exists and is writable, or can be made so. | 2 | |
| drupal_verify_profile |
drupal/ |
Verifies that all dependencies are met for a given installation profile. | 1 | |
| drupal_install_system |
drupal/ |
Installs the system module. | 1 | |
| drupal_verify_install_file |
drupal/ |
Verifies the state of the specified file. | 5 | |
| drupal_install_mkdir |
drupal/ |
Creates a directory with the specified permissions. | 1 | |
| drupal_install_fix_file |
drupal/ |
Attempts to fix file permissions. | 1 | |
| drupal_current_script_url |
drupal/ |
Returns the URL of the current script, with modified query parameters. | 2 | |
| drupal_requirements_url |
drupal/ |
Returns a URL for proceeding to the next page after a requirements problem. | 2 | |
| drupal_check_profile |
drupal/ |
Checks an installation profile's requirements. | 1 | |
| drupal_requirements_severity |
drupal/ |
Extracts the highest severity from the requirements array. | 3 |