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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)

Summary


We have covered two aspects of Drush customization in this chapter: scripts (either commands or actual PHP scripts) and configuration for Drush or Drupal sites.

This chapter started with a step guide on how to write custom Drush commands and execute scripts against a bootstrapped Drupal site. Then, hooks for altering commands were presented as a great tool to perform extra tasks. Finally, the various ways to configure how Drush should behave system-wide or site-wide were explained with some examples: configuration files are short cuts to set command default options while site aliases give us the power to manage remote sites with short commands and synchronize sites easily.

Drush is highly configurable and once you get some practice using the contents covered in this chapter you will end up with a much more powerful Drush.