function tripal_core_set_globals

2.x tripal_core.module tripal_core_set_globals()

This function is used to set the global Chado variables

Related topics

Tripal Core Module
Functionality useful for all other Tripal modules including the Tripal jobs, files, materialized views and custom table functions.
1 call to tripal_core_set_globals()
tripal_core.module in tripal_core/tripal_core.module
The Tripal Core module

File

tripal_core/tripal_core.module, line 35
The Tripal Core module

Code

function tripal_core_set_globals() {
  // these global variables are meant to be accessed by all Tripal
  // modules to find the chado version installed and if Chado is local.
  // these variables are stored as globals rather than using the drupal_set_variable
  // functions because the Drupal functions make databaes queries and for long
  // running loaders we don't want those queries repeatedly.
  $GLOBALS["chado_is_installed"] = chado_is_installed();
  if ($GLOBALS["chado_is_installed"]) {
    $GLOBALS["chado_is_local"] = chado_is_local();
    $GLOBALS["chado_version"] = chado_get_version();
    $GLOBALS["exact_chado_version"] = chado_get_version(TRUE);
  }
}