Global Constants and Variables

[Nick]

Here's an overview of the main global constants and variables.

Constants

Database:

DB_USER
DB_PASSWORD
DB_NAME
DB_HOST
DB_PREFIX
DB_LANG

Database tables:

TABLE_BLOCKED
TABLE_CATEGORIES
TABLE_COMMENTS
TABLE_COMMENTVOTES
TABLE_MISCDATA
TABLE_PLUGINS
TABLE_PLUGINHOOKS
TABLE_PLUGINSETTINGS
TABLE_POSTS
TABLE_POSTMETA
TABLE_POSTVOTES
TABLE_SETTINGS
TABLE_TAGS
TABLE_TEMPDATA
TABLE_USERS
TABLE_USERMETA
TABLE_USERACTIVITY
TABLE_WIDGETS

Absolute URL Path, e.g. http://yoursite.com/ :

BASEURL

Absolute Server Path, e.g. /home/username/public_html/ :

BASE
ADMIN
CACHE
INSTALL
LIBS
EXTENSIONS
THEMES
PLUGINS
LANGUAGES
ADMIN_THEMES

Settings, pulled from the database settings table (details here (http://hotarucms.org/showthread.php?t=91)):

Note: These are all strings.

SITE_OPEN
SITE_NAME
THEME
ADMIN_THEME
LANGUAGE_PACK
FRIENDLY_URLS
SITE_EMAIL
DB_CACHE_ON
DB_CACHE_DURATION
RSS_CACHE_ON
RSS_CACHE_DURATION
CSS_JS_CACHE_ON
HTML_CACHE_ON
DEBUG

Objects

Traditional globals variables are almost entirely eliminated from Hotaru. Instead, class methods and properties are accessible through the Hotaru class, i.e.:

$h - the main Hotaru object
$h->db - database
$h->lang - language
$h->cage - Inspekt input validation and filtering
$h->plugin - used only to access plugin properties in the Plugin class
$h->currentUser - you, i.e. the person logged in and viewing the site, provides access to user functions in UserAuth and UserBase
$h->post - provides persistent access to the Post class
$h->avatar - provides persistent access to the Avatar class
$h->includes - provides persistent access to the Include CssJs class