Calling Drupal functions in external PHP file

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How can I call a Drupal function or get the global variable in a PHP file which is located under the drupal installation folder. I doing it for the first time. Are there any files I need to include in my code in order to access the Drupal function or variables?

Possible duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5014244/drupal-how-to-access-to-drupals-apis-with-a-standalone-php-script — Laxman13, Jun 29 '11 at 14:16
I strongly recmmend that you consider writing a module instead of adding arbitrary PHP files for things that should be part of the website. And for scripts, you can write drush scripts (http://drupal.org/project/drush). — Berdir, Jun 29 '11 at 16:21

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 18 '11 at 18:42

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If the above explained example doesn't work try this:

$path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
chdir($path."/drupal");
define('DRUPAL_ROOT', getcwd()); //the most important line
require_once './includes/bootstrap.inc';
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);

answered Jul 18 '11 at 18:42

Alexey

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this looks like a hybrid of both drupal 6 and drupal 7 – ErichBSchulz Jun 21 '13 at 09:33
How do we do for Drupal8? – sandykadam Jul 05 '21 at 09:34

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 29 '11 at 14:18

Taken from the linked question in the comment above

You need to Bootstrap Drupal in the external PHP file:

/** bootstrap Drupal **/
chdir("/path/to/drupal/site/htdocs");
require_once './includes/bootstrap.inc';
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);

Be sure to change the path to your Drupal installation, then add your code below the code posted above.

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 06 '13 at 13:42

define('DRUPAL_ROOT', getcwd());
require_once './includes/bootstrap.inc';
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);

The above code works for me, when the script is in my Drupal root directory. This loads absolutely everything, not just Drupal core, including contributed module hooks.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 21 '14 at 07:34

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define('DRUPAL_ROOT', getcwd());

require_once DRUPAL_ROOT . '/includes/bootstrap.inc';
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);
global $user;
print_r($user);

answered Mar 21 '14 at 07:34

user3383498

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This question already has an accepted answer. If your answer is an improvement, you should add some detail explaining why. – Tom Fenech Mar 21 '14 at 08:04

Calling Drupal functions in external PHP file

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