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I'm writing a Drupal (D7) module that uses the v3 API to create activities (basically, using Civi to record activity that happens on the Drupal side, using  hook_exit).  There's something I'm not getting about the configuration and how CiviCRM and Drupal play together....

None of the calls to the CiviCRM API work unless I "initialize" CiviCRM per this recent thread #20989 (For Joomla... but it works. sort of). This involves these lines (groan... not yet allowed to post code properly):using require_once with DRUPAL_ROOT to load civicrmsettings.settings.php (from the site directory), the config.php from the CRM core, api.php and the $config = CRM_Core_Config::singleton() statement.

BUT with those statements in place, CiviCRM is randomly throwing errors!  Specifically loading or refreshing /civicrm  randomly returns warnings, white screens, "Page Not Found", and even an "Oops! The path for including CiviCRM code files is not set properly...." And of course the page will also build perfectly with no errors about half the time. 

If I remove those initialization calls, all of CiviCRM works fine (except my module of course) so its not a larger problem with settings and paths.

So what's the proper way to tell a Drupal module about CiviCRM?

hey mason:

assuming you are not writing any civicrm related code in the hook_init function of your module,

civicrm_initialize( ); should work as is, since drupal loads all modules before invoking other hooks / menu system

get on irc and we can help debug

lobo