 readme  id readmetxt v 1121 20100629 204756 yhahn exp strongarm 2x for drupal 6x strongarm gives site builders a way to override the default variable values that drupal core and contributed modules ship with it is not an end user tool but a developer and site builder tool which provides an api and a limited ui an example of such a variable is sitefrontpage in drupal this defaults to node which ensures that the front page gets content as soon as some exists but for many drupal sites this setting is simply wrong strongarm gives the site builder a place in the equation an opportunity to set the default value of sitefrontpage to something that makes sense for their site installation strongarm can be installed like any other drupal module place it in the modules directory for your site and enable it and its requirement ctools on the admin build modules page strongarm is an api module it does absolutely nothing for the end user out of the box without other modules that take advantage of its api how strongarm works strongarm uses the ctools export api to make entries in the system module s variable table exportables exportables are drupal configuration objects that lead a dual life they may be defaults set by code exports in modules they may be overridden if a user chooses to change the value in the database or they may be normal if the configuration object lives only in the database but not in code to learn more about exportables and the ctools export api see the ctools advanced help on exportable objects tool exporting variables if you are a developer or site builder strongarm gives you tools to export the settings of variables in your site database and manage any overrides to default values to export variable values you will need to enable either the features 1 module or the bulk export 2 module provided by ctools as of june 29 2010 you must use a recent checkout ctools drupal61 in order to use bulk export with strongarm features provides a ui for adding variable exports to a feature bulk export provides a ui for generating defaults hooks with exported variables that you can add to your own modules you do not need to enable both modules maintainers jmiccolis jeff miccolis yhahn young hahn 1 http drupalorg project features 2 http drupalorg project ctools  