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Background reading

http://www.nicklewis.org/drupal-hackers-cookbook/theming/hook_theme-and-...

Nicks excellent run through is a little bit confusing when it comes to working out whether you're using the verbose or preprocess methods. This walk through is going to use just the preprocess method. We'll create a very simple module that provides a simple login block, or if logged in, a few links through to account, account edit and log out.

(Note - this turns out to be about command line PHP rather than the Batch API)

We were looking at a problem. How to convert 350,000 user profiles, built using the core Drupal Profile module into a tidier single table using a custom module solution?

This is an ugly little hack to get around the fact that those lovely neat Admin module links disappear when you don't print $content in your tpl files. The other method would be to use something like contemplate, or panels to avoid the problem completly.

ok, here is the hack. 1. create a module admin_links: