How to get the modules list in Drupal as in admin/build/modules?
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7From @Gokul: `drush pm-list --type=Module --status=enabled` – doub1ejack Sep 30 '14 at 20:05
6 Answers
You can use drush pm-list --type=Module --status=enabled
command for getting a list of installed modules.

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7Googled for this and ended up using my own answer which I had submitted 2 years back :) – Gokul N K Dec 15 '14 at 06:57
Install "Drush" (a good option in any case, once you get used to it, you'll love it). It has a build in command to list all installed modules themes.
If you need to see the list of modules to display it elsewhere (this can be a security issue!), you can look into the way how drush does it (pm.drush.inc:218).
Furthermore there is a core function, but I don't know if this is what you want.

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I need to display the list of modules and themes in a web interface to make possible user to select themes and modules – sultan Nov 20 '10 at 11:03
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Then why can't you use the build/modules view for it? Or are you talking about simply displaying it without any other functions? – DrColossos Nov 20 '10 at 11:10
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It's your path given from above (I just omitted the `admin` part for lazyness ;)) – DrColossos Nov 20 '10 at 11:27
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So you mean there is no inner functions supported and I should to code this on my own? – sultan Nov 20 '10 at 11:29
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1What are you even trying to do? Log into the admin and enable/disable modules and themes. There is no need for programming it. – Kevin Nov 20 '10 at 18:18
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I've developing scaling toolkit pack for a drupal sites so the admin user can easily scale and create new sub-sites and sub-domains of drupal sites thats why I need to provide theme/module selection... – sultan Nov 21 '10 at 08:00
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Solution already found. Achieve this using system_modules function as an argument to a drupal_get_form function – sultan Nov 22 '10 at 13:37
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module_list($refresh = FALSE, $bootstrap_refresh = FALSE, $sort = FALSE, $fixed_list = NULL)
Here are more details. http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes!module.inc/function/module_list/7

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If you want to list all the modules available to you, this should work with either Drupal 6 or Drupal 7:
<?php
// include_once('.' . base_path() . drupal_get_path('module', 'system') . '/system.admin.inc');
// Above line was intentionally commented out (see below).
$drupal_version = (int) VERSION;
$list_modules_function = '';
if ($drupal_version >= 7 && $drupal_version < 8) {
$list_modules_function = 'system_rebuild_module_data';
}
else if ($drupal_version >= 6 && $drupal_version < 7) {
$list_modules_function = 'module_rebuild_cache';
}
if (empty($list_modules_function)) {
$output = t('Oops... Looks like you are not using either version 6 or version 7 of Drupal');
}
else if (!function_exists($list_modules_function)) {
$output = t('Oops... Unable to find the function !function(). Try uncommenting the top line of this code.', array('!function' => $list_modules_function));
}
else {
$output = "<dl>\n";
$list_modules = $list_modules_function();
foreach ($list_modules as $module) {
$output .= "<dt>" . check_plain($module->info["name"]) . "</dt>\n";
$output .= "<dd>" . check_plain($module->info["description"]) . "</dd>\n";
}
$output .= "</dl>\n";
}
print $output;
?>

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can you explain what is t() here? I am getting Fatal error: Call to undefined function t() error – sheetal Apr 29 '17 at 05:39
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t() is a function used for several purposes, but its primary purpose is to translate text. See this [API documentation](https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes%21bootstrap.inc/function/t/7.x) for more information. – jerdiggity Apr 30 '17 at 06:32
You can also use following commands to search specific modules. If you want to list-down only commerce module from module list than
drush pml | grep commerce
On windows machine you cant use grep. So you have to use findstr
drush pml | findstr commerce

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The following command will work, outputing list of all available modules along with the package they fall in, status and version.
drush pm-list --type=Module --status=enabled

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Just used it, and it worked for me. I don't have enough reputations to +1 any comment or question, so I think writing what worked for me will support the solution... :p :D – Dev May 01 '15 at 11:06