Quick function to delete a view.
This is basically what the UI form submit does.
<?php
function delete_view($name) {
$view = views_ui_cache_load($name);
$view->delete();
views_object_cache_clear('view', $view->name);
}
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Delete Drupal View programatically
Drupal - the missing API
I was just reading this presentation on deploying Drupal
http://www.slideshare.net/eaton/drupal-deployment-presentation
and noticed
http://drupal.org/project/install_profile_api
Which seems to have a collection of API functions needed at install/upgrade time that are missing from Drupal (and contrib modules)
And even better this is great motivation to write more such functions myself instead of just using SQL hacks.
Drupal has no API
I've been using Drupal for a couple of years now, and know my way around it pretty well.
One of my biggest frustrations though is that it doesn't really have an API.
Much of the functionality is only really available through the application, you can do things pretty easily by pointing and clicking, but try and automate part of this and you have to step through code, find form handlers, copy-paste parts of the functions and work out what parameters are required.
The example I found most recently was creating a translated version of a page.
