Drupal: Simple way to bootstrap scripts into Drupal system

Previously I wrote about a method of hooking up an existing site with the Drupal backend. That will work fine if the request comes from the browser, but for a script you will need an extra little bit of configuration.

In conjuction with initialise_drupal_bootstrap() (a function provided in the previous post), you will need to call the following.

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01.function initialise_for_script($server_address = 'yoursite.com') {  

02.  global $_SERVER;   

03.   

04.  // define default settings   

05.  $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']       = $server_address;   

06.  $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']        = '/index.php';   

07.  $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']     = '127.0.0.1';   

08.  $_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'] = 'PHP CLI';   

09.  $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']  = 'GET';   

10.  $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']    = '';   

11.  $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']        = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = '/';   

12.}

When using the bootstrappers, your script would look something like this:

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01./* 

02.* Run this from your Drupal folder.  

03.* Usage: php scripts/mailout.php  

04.*/  

05.   

06.require_once('./scripts/drupal_bootstrap.inc');

07.initialise_for_script('examplesite.com');

08.initialise_drupal_bootstrap();  

09.   

10.if (function_exists(mailout_loop')) {

11.  mailout_loop();

12.}