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Drush User's Guide

By : Juan Pablo Novillo Requena
Book Image

Drush User's Guide

By: Juan Pablo Novillo Requena

Overview of this book

<p>Drush is a command line interface for Drupal. Most of the tasks for building and maintaining a website are repetitive and involve filling in forms on administration pages. The majority of these tasks can be achieved with a single Drush command, shortening the development and maintenance time of a project drastically.</p> <p><em>Drush User's Guide</em> will allow you to be more productive and efficient in building and maintaining your Drupal sites through the command line. You will learn to install Drush on different platforms, and manage and configure your Drupal site by learning how to use and create Drush commands.</p> <p>Become a Drush expert by exploring its command toolkit; customizing it to suit your needs, and extending it with contributed modules.</p> <p>The command line will allow you to download, enable and upgrade Drupal projects in seconds. Back up your files, code and data in one single file, clear the cache, interact with databases, and deploy sites to remote machines - all using simply the command line. Use Drush with your own commands or alter existing ones; and extend the toolkit with a long list of contributed modules.</p> <p><em>Drush User's Guide</em> has everything you need to extend your use of the command line to easily build and manage your Drupal sites.</p>
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Chapter 3. Customizing Drush

Drush is highly configurable. With the contents of this chapter and some practice you will feel that you are doing magic with your console. Imagine that you can download a whole production database ignoring cache tables, resetting user emails and passwords to your local database with just one short command such as drush sql-sync @prod @local. Yes, it is possible.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:

  • Write, test, and validate our first Drush command

  • Altering and taking action when a command is executed

  • Running PHP code directly on the command line or in PHP scripts after bootstrapping a Drupal site

  • Create an alias for our testing Drupal site and issue commands to it

  • Executing commands against remote systems and synchronizing files, code and databases

  • Defining Drush configuration files for a user, a Drupal installation or a single site

  • Optimizing our terminal in order to run even shorter commands

These are advanced topics which will need some systems...