bin/* scripts do not fire hooks

For scripts in the bin directory Drupal (and I'm assuming the same for Joomla) does not get bootstrapped. This means that when a hook gets fired, there are no implementations of the hook to call (because no modules have been loaded).

I got around this with this really dirty hack to the beginning of UpdateMembershipRecord.php . But there's got to be a better way, perhaps by reworking civicrm.config.php .

// Boostrap Drupal
$drupal_root = realpath($config->templateDir .'../../../../..');
$current_working_directory = getcwd();
ini_set('include_path', ini_get('include_path') .':'. $drupal_root);
chdir($drupal_root);
$drupal_base_url = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] = '/index.php';
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] = NULL;
$_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] = NULL;

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

//require_once '../civicrm.config.php';
include_once './'. conf_path() . '/civicrm.settings.php';
chdir($current_working_directory);

global $user;
$name = trim($_REQUEST['name']);
$user = user_load(array('name' => $name));