Category: Functions
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Requiring files in Drupal 6 & 7
I have seen a lot of Drupal modules where requiring php files is done like this $module = ‘my_module’; require_once(DRUPAL_ROOT . ‘/’ . drupal_get_path(‘module’, $module) . ‘/test.php’); While this is totally right i still encourage you to use special function for this called “module_load_include“. module_load_include(‘php’, ‘my_module’, ‘test’);
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Logging in Drupal 7
In case you need to log errors and other messages in Drupal 7 use may use it’s watchdog function. Same thing will work for Drupal 6. watchdog($type, $message, $variables = array(), $severity = WATCHDOG_NOTICE, $link = NULL) Example with some data: watchdog(‘Booking’, ‘Sucessfully booked for %persons’, array(‘%persons’ => 5), WATCHDOG_INFO); Some possible severity levels are WATCHDOG_EMERGENCY,…