Drupal: how to access to Drupal's APIs with a standalone php script?

Question

When I create a new script in a separate php file to run for Drupal, I need to add the following lines on top in order to access all Drupal APIs:

require_once \'./in

Answer 1

This should work for both Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 :

define('DRUPAL_ROOT', 'path/to/drupal');
chdir(DRUPAL_ROOT);
require './includes/bootstrap.inc';
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);

It doesn't matter where you put the script that contains this code. Just make sure you replace path/to/drupal with the actual installation path of your Drupal system.