How to access user object in external PHP file?

Question

I'm working on an http://example.com/userfiles/upload.php as a file browser for Drupal CKEditor and I want to restrict access to logged-in users but $user->uid inside upload.php doesn't seem to return any value.

I had to add the path /userfiles to Apache's rewrite rules exceptions to be able to access it (as otherwise, it forwards it to index.php?q= and doesn't load).

I don't fully understand yet how the index.php of Drupal works but I suspect that Apache's rewrite rules could be an issue in accessing the $user->uid value?

Or do I need additional code to access this value from Drupal?

$global user;

if (!$user->uid) {
  echo("You're not allowed to upload files");
  die(0);
}

norman.lol · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-22 06:11:05Z

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I have searched lots before but now I came across a post about how to bootstrap Drupal which worked for me. I understand it provides access to the Drupal API.

// Set the working directory.
chdir('/var/www/html/drupalfolder/');
define('DRUPAL_ROOT', getcwd());

// Load Drupal.
require_once './includes/bootstrap.inc';
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL); 

// Your code will go here ...

edited Mar 22, 2018 at 6:11

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answered Mar 21, 2018 at 11:10

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