disable/enable modules in settings.php ??

Posted by liquidcms on January 4, 2008 at 6:43pm

Is there a good way to have modules disabled or enabled for a specific site?

To clarify:

- i have a multiple user development project
- our std practice is that each developer gets their own site folder where they can use the $conf array to define system variables (e.g. site email address)

this is a very useful Drupal feature.

Is there anyway to add this same concept for modules status (enable/disable)?

ideally something as simple as adding:

db_query("update system set status = 0 where name = 'securepages'");

would work; but settings.php runs before bootstrap so we don't get access to commands such as db_query.

so short of doing this with base php db commands; is there a cleaner way?

Comments

If each user gets their own

Posted by Island Usurper on January 4, 2008 at 7:08pm

If each user gets their own site, why not just give them access to the modules page? To have different sets of modules enabled, you need a different database for each site already, might as well give the users free reign.

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thanks but this is not the

Posted by liquidcms on January 5, 2008 at 7:04pm

thanks but this is not the problem i am trying to solve - this is to improve the sites multi-developer environment. All site developers of course already do have access to everything - including all admin pages. The point was to not have to go into db and re-set everything every time a new copy of production db is pulled.

The ability i am looking for would be exactly the way the $conf array is used. So developers would be able to enable/disable certain modules regardless of what is in the db and specific to their own test/devel needs.

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Peter Lindstrom
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That is a different problem

Posted by Island Usurper on January 7, 2008 at 3:53pm

Since this sounds like a private project, you may be able to get away with creating some nodes that run the PHP to enable the modules. Of course, I would have it check to see those modules are already enabled so they aren't run when they need to be edited. If your databases are reset by a script, it might be able to view those nodes with cURL or something. That would be a little more reliable than viewing the nodes manually.

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lockdown on hook_init

Posted by dman on April 15, 2010 at 2:38am

I just tried this. It works (D5 anyway).
function system_init doesn't exist, so I hijacked the name.
Inserted into the localized settings.php

<?php
/**
 * A fake hook - use to ensure a few security things are locked down on the dev
 * site. Can't do it directly as DB is unavailable at settings.php time, so
 * insert these actions into the bootstrap
 * 
 * dman 2010-04-15 <a href="http://drupal.org/node/206368
" title="http://drupal.org/node/206368
" rel="nofollow">http://drupal.org/node/206368
</a> */
function system_init() {
  if (! module_exists('securesite')) {
    db_query("update system set status = 1 where name = 'securesite'");
  }
}
?>

My env also has frequent dumps and DB syncs from live back to dev, but dev needs to be locked. Don't want to leave it open by accident.

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I threw the following into

Posted by geerlingguy on October 7, 2011 at 3:45pm

I threw the following into hook_init() in a custom module:

<?php
  // If we're on local.example.com, disable dblog module if enabled.
  if (variable_get('running_on_localhost', FALSE) && module_exists('dblog')) {
    module_disable(array('dblog'));
  }
?>

I simply add the 'running_on_localhost' configuration variable in settings.php for the local environment...

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For D6 and latest version of

Posted by mrfelton on April 28, 2010 at 5:05pm

For D6 and latest version of securesite, in settings.php you can set

$conf['securesite_enabled'] = 0;

So, just install the module, and enable and configure it. Then set that variable appropriately in each version of your site.

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That sounds much tidier!

Posted by dman on April 28, 2010 at 10:54pm

That sounds much tidier! Thanks!

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Environment

Posted by eporama on November 11, 2010 at 5:31pm

Might also be worth looking at http://drupal.org/project/environment

Environment "Creates a drush command line interface for setting an environment for a site instance".

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Posted by WorldFallz on October 7, 2011 at 5:16pm

yet another option http://drupal.org/project/system_features

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