Tutorial : Enabling/Installing New Modules Via Update.php: The Complete Solution

In our last episode of enabling new modules via update.php, Steve McKenzie pointed me to a better method: module_enable(). A quick test found, however, that it didn't run the install files, and didn't rebuild the module files cache. So after spending 5 minutes in system.module, I found all the missing pieces. The example update function below will install and enable the new module, as well as rebuild all the css, node type, and menu caches. In simple language, it does everything that happens when the modules admin page is submitted. Enjoy.

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Courtesy : nicklewis.org