Developer basics

Let's start by checking environment variables from your current installation. Go to your admin panel to the developer's area, located at https://www.example.com/admin/developers; this section is hidden from the menu.

You can see some information about your PHP configuration, environment variables such as $_SERVER, the extensions you have loaded, locales you have installed, Bludit constants, and some Objects properties.

Flow of loading files for admin panel

These are the files loaded when a user goes to the admin panel:

index.php
    bl-kernel/boot/init.php
    bl-kernel/boot/admin.php
        bl-kernel/boot/rules/60.plugins.php
        bl-kernel/boot/rules/69.pages.php
        bl-kernel/boot/rules/99.header.php
        bl-kernel/boot/rules/99.paginator.php
        bl-kernel/boot/rules/99.themes.php
        bl-kernel/boot/rules/99.security.php
        bl-kernel/admin/themes/default/init.php
        bl-kernel/admin/controllers/{CONTROLLER}.php
        bl-kernel/admin/themes/default/index.php
            bl-kernel/admin/controllers/{VIEW}.php

Flow of loading files for site

These are the files loaded when a user goes to the site:

index.php
    bl-kernel/boot/init.php
    bl-kernel/boot/site.php
        bl-kernel/boot/rules/60.plugins.php
        bl-kernel/boot/rules/69.pages.php
        bl-kernel/boot/rules/99.header.php
        bl-kernel/boot/rules/99.paginator.php
        bl-kernel/boot/rules/99.themes.php
        bl-kernel/boot/rules/99.security.php
        bl-themes/{THEME_NAME}/init.php
        bl-themes/{THEME_NAME}/index.php

Environment variables and constants

Bludit provides different environment variables and constants with predefined configurations.

• bl-kernel/boot/init.php
• bl-kernel/boot/variables.php

Another place where you can see environment variables defined is in the rules folder: bl-kernel/boot/rules/. For example, the variables about content and pages are defined in bl-kernel/boot/rules/69.pages.php.