Same name and namespace in other branches
  1. 5.x includes/common.inc \drupal_system_listing()
  2. 7.x includes/common.inc \drupal_system_listing()

Return an array of system file objects.

Returns an array of file objects of the given type from the site-wide directory (i.e. modules/), the all-sites directory (i.e. sites/all/modules/), the profiles directory, and site-specific directory (i.e. sites/somesite/modules/). The returned array will be keyed using the key specified (name, basename, filename). Using name or basename will cause site-specific files to be prioritized over similar files in the default directories. That is, if a file with the same name appears in both the site-wide directory and site-specific directory, only the site-specific version will be included.

Parameters

$mask: The regular expression of the files to find.

$directory: The subdirectory name in which the files are found. For example, 'modules' will search in both modules/ and sites/somesite/modules/.

$key: The key to be passed to file_scan_directory().

$min_depth: Minimum depth of directories to return files from.

Return value

An array of file objects of the specified type.

4 calls to drupal_system_listing()
drupal_find_theme_templates in includes/theme.inc
Find overridden theme templates. Called by themes and/or theme engines to easily discover templates.
drupal_get_install_files in includes/install.inc
Get list of all .install files.
module_rebuild_cache in includes/module.inc
Rebuild the database cache of module files.
_system_theme_data in modules/system/system.module
Helper function to scan and collect theme .info data and their engines.

File

includes/common.inc, line 2882
Common functions that many Drupal modules will need to reference.

Code

function drupal_system_listing($mask, $directory, $key = 'name', $min_depth = 1) {
  global $profile;
  $config = conf_path();

  // When this function is called during Drupal's initial installation process,
  // the name of the profile that's about to be installed is stored in the global
  // $profile variable. At all other times, the standard Drupal systems variable
  // table contains the name of the current profile, and we can call variable_get()
  // to determine what one is active.
  if (!isset($profile)) {
    $profile = variable_get('install_profile', 'default');
  }
  $searchdir = array(
    $directory,
  );
  $files = array();

  // The 'profiles' directory contains pristine collections of modules and
  // themes as organized by a distribution.  It is pristine in the same way
  // that /modules is pristine for core; users should avoid changing anything
  // there in favor of sites/all or sites/<domain> directories.
  if (file_exists("profiles/{$profile}/{$directory}")) {
    $searchdir[] = "profiles/{$profile}/{$directory}";
  }

  // Always search sites/all/* as well as the global directories
  $searchdir[] = 'sites/all/' . $directory;
  if (file_exists("{$config}/{$directory}")) {
    $searchdir[] = "{$config}/{$directory}";
  }

  // Get current list of items
  foreach ($searchdir as $dir) {
    $files = array_merge($files, file_scan_directory($dir, $mask, array(
      '.',
      '..',
      'CVS',
    ), 0, TRUE, $key, $min_depth));
  }
  return $files;
}