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Hi All,

To avoid the un-sexy ampersands and question marks on payment page URLs, I have always used drupal_goto to redirect from something easy to remember like /join.  I suspect that this is a bad way to do things, but I'm not sure what would be better.

My understanding is that this is more of an issue with Drupal than with Civi, but I was wondering whether anyone knows of a workaround for it.  Thank you!

Thanks, Hershel!  Learned this one the hard way, and felt pretty foolish when I realized that my redirect had broken cron. 

In case anyone else made the same mistake, adding the PHP below fixes the issue in Drupal 6.

<?php
if(!function_exists('is_cron')){ //don't re-declare functions
  /**
   * function is_cron()
   * checks if cron is running, then stops the redirect
   */
  function is_cron() {
    if (php_sapi_name() == 'cli') {
      // This may mean cron via Drush
      return TRUE;
    }
    if(preg_match('/\/cron.php$/', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])) {
      //check for cron.php in the url. *preg_match accommodates sites in sub-directories
      return TRUE;
    }
    if (arg(0) == 'admin' && arg(1) == 'reports' && arg(2) == 'status' && arg(3) == 'run-cron') {
      return TRUE;
    }
    return FALSE;
  }//end function is_cron()
}//end if(!function_exists('is_cron')

//looks like Cron is running?  stop the redirect!
if(!is_cron()){
drupal_goto($path = 'civicrm/contribute/transact', 'reset=1&id=8');
}//end if(!is_cron())
?>