API 'developer/global.php'

Posted by JLake on February 12, 2013 at 9:54pm

just started with Drupal, so be gentle.
I have read the API doc's regarding the globals...
how does one access them? I installed the API module
but I do not see a 'developer/global.php' anywhere in my installation tree
did I miss something somewhere ??

Comments

What are you trying to do?

Posted by nevets on February 12, 2013 at 10:57pm

What are you trying to do?

I have a custom module from

Posted by JLake on February 13, 2013 at 12:49am

I have a custom module from another CMS that I want to port to Drupal..
what I need is the user information '$user' to start with ...

$user is the person currently

Posted by nevets on February 13, 2013 at 3:48am

$user is the person currently viewing the site. If can be access like this

global $user;

// The users login name for example
print $user->uid;

As a side note, you might want to say what functionality you are after, there could be a Drupal module that already exists.

Processing a user submitted

Posted by JLake on February 13, 2013 at 2:17pm

Processing a user submitted form....
Believe me, there maybe form processing modules, but none like these...
I have check's and actions based on each condition from the submitted form
Thanks for the help....

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