How to run Drupal 8 functions from an external PHP file

Question

Is there any way to execute Drupal 8 functions from an external PHP file.

You might want to give us some context on why you want to do this, because generally, you wouldn't do it, you would write s drupal module instead. — 2pha

MilanG MilanG · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-10T06:28:28

You can include/call Drupal's bootstrap in your script and after that call Drupal's functions. Used that for D7, but didn't try for D8. However it should work:

https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/174474/bootstrap-from-external-script

And to copy code from that page:

define('DRUPAL_DIR', '/usr/share/nginx/html');
use Drupal\Core\DrupalKernel;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
require_once DRUPAL_DIR . '/core/includes/database.inc';
require_once DRUPAL_DIR . '/core/includes/schema.inc';
// Specify relative path to the drupal root.
$autoloader = require_once DRUPAL_DIR . '/autoload.php';

$request = Request::createFromGlobals();

// Bootstrap drupal to different levels
$kernel = DrupalKernel::createFromRequest($request, $autoloader, 'prod');
$kernel->boot();
$kernel->prepareLegacyRequest($request);

$em = $kernel->getContainer()->get('entity.manager');

$entity = $em->getStorage('node')->create(
        array(
          'type' => "article",
          'title'=> "test entity",
          'body' => "body body body",
        ));

$entity->save();

How to run Drupal 8 functions from an external PHP file

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