Drupal PHP pages without having a DB Query?

Question

I'm working on a site where there will be several admin pages that have intense logic in them. Let's take an example. I want a page that lists certain nodes and allows you to add or remove them, or do other actions on them.

Now, I can create a normal page in Drupal and select the input filter as "php code" and then just add the following line:

<?php executeTheCodeThatDoesEverythingForThisPage(); ?>

And I can put this method in a module.

However, this is not ideal, as a DB call is still made to find out what method must be called. I want to:

1. Entirely skip the DB call
2. Have a folder, e.g. pages, that stores all my custom pages, e.g. aboutus.php, mystuff.php
3. Still have access to all the drupal functions in this file

Anybody know how I can do this?

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If I can't skip the DB query, can someone tell me the best way to include data from a static php file? Is there a module for this, or should I just add the following code:

include_once "myFile.php";

Answer 1

To include files, you need to look at the menu system, in particular page callbacks:

http://drupal.org/node/146172