These are the global variables that Drupal uses.
Name![]() |
Description |
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$base_path | The base path of the Drupal installation. |
$base_root | The root URL of the host, excluding the path. |
$base_theme_info | An array of objects that represent the base theme. |
$base_url | The base URL of the Drupal installation. |
$channel | An associative array containing title, link, description and other keys. |
$conf | Array of persistent variables stored in 'variable' table. |
$cookie_domain | The domain to be used for session cookies. |
$databases | Array of database connections. |
$element | Structured array describing the data to be rendered. |
$forum_topic_list_header | An array of forum topic header information. |
$image | Current image tag used by aggregator parsing. |
$installed_profile | The name of the profile that has just been installed. |
$is_https | Boolean indicating whether or not the current request is secured by HTTPS. |
$item | General string or array. |
$items | Array of items used by aggregator. |
$language | An object containing the information for the active interface language. |
$language_content | An object containing the information for the active content language. |
$language_url | An object containing the information for the active URL language. |
$menu_admin | Boolean indicating that a menu administrator is running a menu access check. |
$multibyte | The current multibyte mode. |
$pager_limits | Array of the number of items per page for each pager. |
$pager_page_array | Array of current page numbers for each pager. |
$pager_total | Array of the total number of pages for each pager. |
$pager_total_items | Array of the total number of items for each pager. |
$tag | Active tag name. |
$theme | Name of the active theme. |
$theme_engine | The theme engine related to the active theme. |
$theme_info | Active theme object. |
$theme_key | Name of the active theme. |
$theme_path | The path to the active theme. |
$timers | Timers that have been created by timer_start(). |
$update_free_access | Allows the update.php script to be run when not logged in as administrator. |
$user | An object representing the user currently visiting the site. |