Documentation & API reference
Functions
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| Name |
Location |
Description | Direct uses | Strings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| entity_get_info |
drupal/ |
Get the entity info array of an entity type. | 37 | 1 |
| entity_info_cache_clear |
drupal/ |
Resets the cached information about entity types. | 7 | |
| entity_extract_ids |
drupal/ |
Helper function to extract id, vid, and bundle name from an entity. | 42 | |
| entity_create_stub_entity |
drupal/ |
Helper function to assemble an object structure with initial ids. | 5 | |
| entity_load |
drupal/ |
Load entities from the database. | 9 | |
| entity_load_unchanged |
drupal/ |
Loads the unchanged, i.e. not modified, entity from the database. | 7 | |
| entity_get_controller |
drupal/ |
Gets the entity controller for an entity type. | ||
| entity_prepare_view |
drupal/ |
Invoke hook_entity_prepare_view(). | 7 | |
| entity_uri |
drupal/ |
Returns the URI elements of an entity. | 13 | |
| entity_label |
drupal/ |
Returns the label of an entity. | 1 | 1 |
| entity_language |
drupal/ |
Returns the language of an entity. | 23 | |
| entity_form_field_validate |
drupal/ |
Attaches field API validation to entity forms. | 6 | |
| entity_form_submit_build_entity |
drupal/ |
Copies submitted values to entity properties for simple entity forms. | 7 | |
| xmlrpc |
drupal/ |
Performs one or more XML-RPC request(s). | 6 | |
| archiver_get_info |
drupal/ |
Retrieves a list of all available archivers. | 2 | |
| archiver_get_extensions |
drupal/ |
Returns a string of supported archive extensions. | 3 | |
| archiver_get_archiver |
drupal/ |
Creates the appropriate archiver for the specified file. | 1 | |
| drupal_get_updaters |
drupal/ |
Assembles the Drupal Updater registry. | 3 | |
| drupal_get_filetransfer_info |
drupal/ |
Assembles the Drupal FileTransfer registry. | 2 | |
| _drupal_parse_response_status |
drupal/ |
Splits an HTTP response status line into components. | 2 | |
| drupal_array_diff_assoc_recursive |
drupal/ |
Recursively computes the difference of arrays with additional index check. | 1 | |
| drupal_schema_field_types |
drupal/ |
Retrieves the type for every field in a table schema. | 1 | |
| entity_view_mode_prepare |
drupal/ |
Invoke hook_entity_view_mode_alter(). | 7 | |
| _cache_get_object |
drupal/ |
Gets the cache object for a cache bin. | 1 | |
| cache_get |
drupal/ |
Returns data from the persistent cache. | 54 | 1 |
| cache_get_multiple |
drupal/ |
Returns data from the persistent cache when given an array of cache IDs. | 3 | |
| cache_set |
drupal/ |
Stores data in the persistent cache. | 51 | |
| cache_clear_all |
drupal/ |
Expires data from the cache. | 80 | 2 |
| cache_is_empty |
drupal/ |
Checks if a cache bin is empty. | 1 | |
| timer_start |
drupal/ |
Starts the timer with the specified name. | 5 | |
| timer_read |
drupal/ |
Reads the current timer value without stopping the timer. | 4 | |
| timer_stop |
drupal/ |
Stops the timer with the specified name. | 1 | |
| conf_path |
drupal/ |
Returns the appropriate configuration directory. | 24 | 3 |
| drupal_override_server_variables |
drupal/ |
Sets appropriate server variables needed for command line scripts to work. | 2 | |
| drupal_environment_initialize |
drupal/ |
Initializes the PHP environment. | 1 | |
| drupal_valid_http_host |
drupal/ |
Validates that a hostname (for example $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) is safe. | 2 | |
| drupal_settings_initialize |
drupal/ |
Sets the base URL, cookie domain, and session name from configuration. | 1 | |
| drupal_get_filename |
drupal/ |
Returns and optionally sets the filename for a system resource. | 12 | 1 |
| variable_initialize |
drupal/ |
Loads the persistent variable table. | 3 | |
| variable_get |
drupal/ |
Returns a persistent variable. | 639 | 1 |
| variable_set |
drupal/ |
Sets a persistent variable. | 387 | |
| variable_del |
drupal/ |
Unsets a persistent variable. | 81 | |
| drupal_page_get_cache |
drupal/ |
Retrieves the current page from the cache. | 1 | |
| drupal_page_is_cacheable |
drupal/ |
Determines the cacheability of the current page. | 5 | |
| bootstrap_invoke_all |
drupal/ |
Invokes a bootstrap hook in all bootstrap modules that implement it. | 3 | |
| drupal_load |
drupal/ |
Includes a file with the provided type and name. | 16 | |
| drupal_add_http_header |
drupal/ |
Sets an HTTP response header for the current page. | 24 | |
| drupal_get_http_header |
drupal/ |
Gets the HTTP response headers for the current page. | 5 | |
| _drupal_set_preferred_header_name |
drupal/ |
Sets the preferred name for the HTTP header. | 3 | |
| drupal_send_headers |
drupal/ |
Sends the HTTP response headers that were previously set, adding defaults. | 4 |