Question

I’m overriding hook_boot in my drupal 7.10 project, and trying to load a user account from it. I get the following error.

Call to undefined function entity_load()

Any ideas why that might be happening? Here is my code.

function appcore_boot() {
   drupal_load('module', 'user');
   $account = user_load(array('uid' => 1)); 
}

Answer 1

If you can’t move it into hook_init then an easy way to ensure common.inc is loaded is by calling:

drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);

Just place this inside your hook_boot before you call user_load. You might not even need DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL to get common.inc loaded, but that is what I tested it against.

What pointed me here is the documentation for current_path which says:

This function is not available in hook_boot() so use $_GET[‘q’] instead. However, be careful when doing that because in the case of Example #3 $_GET[‘q’] will contain “path/alias”. If “node/306” is needed, calling drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL) makes this function available.