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#Drupal NoBootstrap

Drupal NoBootstrap is a small php library which allows you to be able to use some of Drupal's functions without bootstrapping Drupal.

It's useful when you want to quickly deliver autocomplete suggestions or deliver fast search results via an AJAX call or simple web service.

It currently has only a small number of functions based on what was needed in the project that it was created for. It supports Drupal 6.

It's developed at Demotix.com by Alexandru Badiu.

Example usage

Deliver autocomplete results to jquery.autocomplete

<?php
require 'drupal_nb.php';

drupal_config('path/to/sites/default/settings.php');

connect();

$response = array(
  'query' => $keys,
  'suggestions' => array(),
);

$keys = $_GET['query'];
$keys = strtolower(trim($keys));

if ($keys == '') {
  drupal_json($response);
  exit();
}
  
$result = mysql_query(sprintf("SELECT DISTINCT(title) FROM node n WHERE LOWER(title) LIKE '%s%%' LIMIT 0,10", mysql_real_escape_string($keys)));
while ($row = mysql_fetch_object($result)) {
  $response['suggestions'][] = $row->title;
}

drupal_json($response);
exit();

Querying Apache Solr

<?php
require 'drupal_nb.php';
require 'path/to/apachesolr/SolrPhpClient/Apache/Solr/Service.php';

drupal_config('path/to/sites/default/settings.php');

connect();

$host = variable_get('apachesolr_host', 'localhost');
$port = variable_get('apachesolr_port', 8080);
$path = variable_get('apachesolr_path', '/solr');

$solr = new Apache_Solr_Service($host, $port, $path);
if (!$solr) {
  return;
}

$params = array(
  ...
);

$response = $solr->search("foo bar", 0, 10, $params);
if ($response->getHttpStatus() == 200) {
  // process $response
}
else {
  // fail
}

Implemented functions

1. connect()
2. variable_set($name, $value)
3. variable_get($name, $default)
4. drupal_json($var = NULL)
5. dsm($input, $name = NULL)
6. dpm($input, $name = NULL)
7. drupal_substr($text, $start, $length = NULL)

TODO

Implement more functions. Patches welcome!