$theme variable

By john.karahalis on 30 Jun 2008 at 23:04 UTC

According to the Drupal documentation, the variable $theme contains the name of the active theme (see http://api.drupal.org/api/global/theme/6).

For some reason, I cannot use this variable in my module. echo $theme; prints nothing.

I know I didn't overwrite the variable. Could I be doing anything wrong, or did I run into a bug?

Comments

zeta ζ commented 1 July 2008 at 00:25

Did you use the code given in the page that you linked to?

 global $theme;
...
echo $theme;

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john.karahalis commented 1 July 2008 at 16:35

I tried using it as a global variable also, but that didn't work either.

zeta ζ commented 1 July 2008 at 16:47

global $theme;

print '<pre style="color: red;">&laquo;' . print_r($theme, true) . '&raquo;</pre>';

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john.karahalis commented 1 July 2008 at 17:02

I just see the characters in red. The actual HTML that is output is the following:
<pre style="color: red;">«»</pre>

If I eliminate the second parameter from print_r(), I get the following HTML:
<pre style="color: red;">«1»</pre>