Documentation & API reference
Functions
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| Name | Location | Description |
Direct uses |
Strings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| filter_format_load |
drupal/ |
Loads a text format object from the database. | 18 | |
| filter_permission_name |
drupal/ |
Returns the machine-readable permission name for a provided text format. | 18 | |
| drupal_http_request |
drupal/ |
Performs an HTTP request. | 19 | |
| batch_get |
drupal/ |
Retrieves the current batch. | 19 | |
| system_rebuild_module_data |
drupal/ |
Rebuild, save, and return data about all currently available modules. | 19 | 2 |
| user_role_grant_permissions |
drupal/ |
Grant permissions to a user role. | 19 | |
| taxonomy_vocabulary_load |
drupal/ |
Return the taxonomy vocabulary entity matching a vocabulary ID. | 19 | 1 |
| drupal_hash_base64 |
drupal/ |
Calculates a base-64 encoded, URL-safe sha-256 hash. | 20 | |
| ip_address |
drupal/ |
Returns the IP address of the client machine. | 20 | 3 |
| element_set_attributes |
drupal/ |
Sets HTML attributes based on element properties. | 20 | |
| menu_router_rebuild |
drupal/ |
Populates the database tables used by various menu functions. | 20 | |
| module_load_install |
drupal/ |
Loads a module's installation hooks. | 20 | |
| user_format_name |
drupal/ |
Format a username. | 20 | |
| taxonomy_vocabulary_save |
drupal/ |
Saves a vocabulary. | 20 | |
| check_markup |
drupal/ |
Runs all the enabled filters on a piece of text. | 20 | |
| truncate_utf8 |
drupal/ |
Truncates a UTF-8-encoded string safely to a number of characters. | 21 | |
| db_change_field |
drupal/ |
Changes a field definition. | 21 | |
| system_config_form |
drupal/ |
Adds default behavior to a configuration form. | 21 | |
| field_attach_load |
drupal/ |
Loads fields for the current revisions of a group of entities. | 21 | |
| node_get_type_label |
drupal/ |
Returns the node type label for the passed node. | 21 | |
| get_t |
drupal/ |
Returns the name of the proper localization function. | 22 | |
| check_url |
drupal/ |
Strips dangerous protocols from a URI and encodes it for output to HTML. | 22 | |
| drupal_array_get_nested_value |
drupal/ |
Retrieves a value from a nested array with variable depth. | 22 | |
| menu_link_save |
drupal/ |
Saves a menu link. | 22 | |
| drupal_substr |
drupal/ |
Cut off a piece of a string based on character indices and counts. Follows the same behavior as PHP's own substr() function. | 23 | |
| file_prepare_directory |
drupal/ |
Checks that the directory exists and is writable. | 23 | |
| file_scan_directory |
drupal/ |
Finds all files that match a given mask in a given directory. | 23 | |
| drupal_get_js |
drupal/ |
Returns a themed presentation of all JavaScript code for the current page. | 23 | |
| comment_load |
drupal/ |
Loads the entire comment by comment ID. | 23 | |
| _field_sql_storage_revision_tablename |
drupal/ |
Generates a table name for a field revision archive table. | 23 | 1 |
| batch_test_stack |
drupal/ |
Helper function: Stores or retrieves traced execution data. | 23 | |
| token_replace |
drupal/ |
Replaces all tokens in a given string with appropriate values. | 24 | |
| decode_entities |
drupal/ |
Decodes all HTML entities (including numerical ones) to regular UTF-8 bytes. | 24 | 1 |
| db_create_table |
drupal/ |
Creates a new table from a Drupal table definition. | 24 | |
| update_variables_to_config |
drupal/ |
Updates config with values set on Drupal 7.x | 25 | |
| drupal_get_schema |
drupal/ |
Gets the schema definition of a table, or the whole database schema. | 25 | |
| drupal_write_record |
drupal/ |
Saves (inserts or updates) a record to the database based upon the schema. | 25 | |
| entity_get_form |
drupal/ |
Returns the built and processed entity form for the given entity. | 25 | 3 |
| render |
drupal/ |
Renders an element. | 25 | 2 |
| batch_set |
drupal/ |
Adds a new batch. | 25 | |
| variable_del |
drupal/ |
Unsets a persistent variable. | 26 | |
| filter_xss |
drupal/ |
Filters HTML to prevent cross-site-scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. | 26 | |
| menu_get_item |
drupal/ |
Gets a router item. | 26 | |
| views_fetch_data |
drupal/ |
Fetch Views' data from the cache | 26 | |
| views_ui_cache_set |
drupal/ |
Specialized cache function to add a flag to our view, include an appropriate include, and cache more easily. | 26 | |
| _field_sql_storage_tablename |
drupal/ |
Generates a table name for a field data table. | 26 | 1 |
| arg |
drupal/ |
Returns a component of the current Drupal path. | 27 | |
| form_set_value |
drupal/ |
Changes submitted form values during form validation. | 27 | |
| field_update_field |
drupal/ |
Updates a field. | 27 | |
| node_access |
drupal/ |
Access callback: Checks a user's permission for performing a node operation. | 27 | 25 |