function module_load_include

7 module.inc module_load_include($type, $module, $name = NULL)
6 module.inc module_load_include($type, $module, $name = NULL)
8 module.inc module_load_include($type, $module, $name = NULL)

Loads a module include file.

Examples:

  // Load node.admin.inc from the node module.
  module_load_include('inc', 'node', 'node.admin');
  // Load content_types.inc from the node module.
  module_load_include('inc', 'node', 'content_types');

Do not use this function to load an install file, use module_load_install() instead. Do not use this function in a global context since it requires Drupal to be fully bootstrapped, use require_once DRUPAL_ROOT . '/path/file' instead.

Parameters

$type: The include file's type (file extension).

$module: The module to which the include file belongs.

$name: (optional) The base file name (without the $type extension). If omitted, $module is used; i.e., resulting in "$module.$type" by default.

Return value

The name of the included file, if successful; FALSE otherwise.

46 calls to module_load_include()
dashboard_admin_blocks in modules/dashboard/dashboard.module
Page callback: Builds the page for administering dashboard blocks.
field_modules_uninstalled in modules/field/field.module
Implements hook_modules_uninstalled().
form_get_cache in includes/form.inc
Fetches a form from cache.
form_load_include in includes/form.inc
Ensures an include file is loaded whenever the form is processed.
forum_overview in modules/forum/forum.admin.inc
Form constructor for the forum overview form.

... See full list

File

includes/module.inc, line 322
API for loading and interacting with Drupal modules.

Code

function module_load_include($type, $module, $name = NULL) {
  if (!isset($name)) {
    $name = $module;
  }

  if (function_exists('drupal_get_path')) {
    $file = DRUPAL_ROOT . '/' . drupal_get_path('module', $module) . "/$name.$type";
    if (is_file($file)) {
      require_once $file;
      return $file;
    }
  }
  return FALSE;
}

Comments

Posted by Wim Leers on

For subdirectory includes, see http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes%21module.inc/function/module_l....

Posted by DanChadwick on

Do not use this function in a global context since it requires Drupal to be fully bootstrapped, use require_once DRUPAL_ROOT . '/path/file' instead.

I don't see how this can apply to module or theme developers because they do not know the path to the file (e.g. sites/SITENAME/modules/...). The choices would appear to be either a relative include path, a path derived from dirname(__FILE__), or drupal_get_path, or something that calls drupal_get_path (such as this function).

Posted by mikeejt on

For the case of loading files w/in a module (i.e. other inc files), why would we use this over the files[] defined in the .info file? Isn't the dynamic class/file loader specified by files[] a better alternative?

Posted by kitt2012 on

My current understanding is that you would use the files[] syntax in your info file if you were declaring class or interface functionality in your .inc file.
If you require to call functions, then the module_load_include is required.

as per http://drupal.org/node/1762288#comment-6749026

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