Keeping IT Simple

This is the 3rd article in the series covering DRUPAL v6 bootstrap process.  As the bootstrap name implies, this phase covers initializing a connection to a database.

The previous article in this series focused on phase 1 of the Drupal bootstrap process (DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_CONFIGURATION). This article will now focus on the second phase - DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_EARLY_PAGE_CACHE.

When investigating a recent rash of spam user registration on my site I began looking through Drupal core to gain a better understanding of its inner workings and how modules could be used to guard against these nuisances.  Like every journey there is a beginning, and for me it all started with index.php.