There are times when doing Drupal development when you need to run a custom PHP script, maybe moving data from one field to another, that doesn't warrant the time and effort to create a custom module. In this scenario, it would be quicker to write a .php script and bootstrap Drupal to gain access to functions like node_load() and db_query().

To bootstrap Drupal, you would need to add some additional lines of code to the stop of your script. Something like:

Tags:

• Drush
• Drupal Planet
• PHP