couldn't load site name in html template

Question

<?php print $site_name; ?>

Why I couldn't perform the above code in 'html.tpl.php'. This works find in page template. Please suggest how to load this in html template

Answer 1

There's no $site_name variable added to html.tpl.php, but you can add it yourself quite easily with a preprocess hook:

function MYTHEME_preprocess_html(&$vars) {
  $vars['site_name'] = variable_get('site_name', 'Default');
}