drush

As discussed in previous blog post, drush cron can be run from crontab too. While seeming pretty straightforward, trying it out caused some troubles.

The thing you would do to make drush run from crontab is:

$ crontab -e
* * * * * drush -r /path/to/drupal

Also tried to give full path to drush install

$ crontab -e

Sometimes there is a need to make drupal redirect using drupal_goto. We had to do it in an SSO scenario. We had to make drupal goto a configurable admin page (node page) when no roles where assigned to you by the external authentication (shibboleth). So we would put a check in hook_init() to redirect drupal when our criteria where met.

By big imports I mean creating millions of nodes and indexing them fo apache solr search. We needed to import 1 million records from file and we needed to create 3 nodes for each record, one in each of our 3 languages. So this gave us the task of creating scripts for creating, updating and deleting 3 millions nodes.