Get the path to a Drupal module or theme

Key words and phrases: 
drupal get module path path to theme
Description & Info: 

This is a very useful function in Drupal's API that is hard to find searching online for file system paths to Drupal modules or themes or anything like that.

So to get the path to a Drupal module or theme it's as simple as:

<?php
  drupal_get_path
('module', $module_name);
?>

or:
<?php
  drupal_get_path
('theme', $theme_name);
?>

http://api.drupal.org/api/function/drupal_get_path/5

by Benjamin Melançon
Posted on Tue, 2008-07-22 15:39
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