Hong Kong Drupal User Group

Introduction of Drush

Francis Yan2014 Oct 11th

Francis Yan

● COO, PantaRei Design– kpyan8s@pantarei-design.com

● Drupal user, site builder– https://www.drupal.org/u/kpyan8s

● HKDUG Organizer– https://groups.drupal.org/drupalhk

PantaRei Design

● Hong Kong based Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) service provider– Content Management System (CMS) with Drupal

– Cloud hosting with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

– Team collaborate solution with Atlassian

● Business Partnership– 2012 - AWS Consulting Partner

– 2013 - Acquia Partner

– 2013 - Atlassian Experts

– 2014 - Rackspace Hosting Partner

● FOSS Contributor– 2008 - Hong Kong Drupal User Group Co-founder

– 2012 - Drupal Services Provider

Outline

● What is Drush?● Why Drush?● Installation of Drush● Some general use cases● Q & A

What is Drush?

● A command line shell and Unix scripting interface forDrupal

● Ships with lots of useful commands for interactingwith code, e.g.– modules/themes/profiles

● Drush was originally developed by Arto for Drupal4.7. Druapl 4.7 released at 2006 May 1st.

● In May 2007, it was partly rewritten and redesignedfor Drupal 5 by frando

Why Drush?

● It helps you perform various admin tasks usingjust one or two commands in the terminal

● It replace the need for many clicks and pagerefreshes in the UI.

Installation of Drush

● Composer install / update– 3 command lines only in my case

● Manually install– Guideline : https://github.com/drush-ops/drush

Some general use cases

● Flushing the cache● Install / enable / disable / update modules● Create / delete user, reset password of user● Backup and restore database

Flushing the cache

● Important for reviewing latest result in Drupal● Command:

– drush cc all

Handle modules with Drush

● Take views module as an example● Install views

– drush dl views

● Enable views– drush en views

● Disable views– drush dis views

● Update views– drush up views

Handle user with Drush

● Create user– drush user-create username

--mail="email@example.com"--password="password"

● Delete user– drush user-cancel username

● Reset password of user– drush user-password admin

--password="new_pass"

Handle database with Drush

● Backup database– drush sql-dump > ../dump.sql

– drush sql-dump --gzip > ../drum.sql.gz

● Drop database– drush sql-drop

● Restore database– `drush sql-connect` < ../dump.sql

Q&A

Reference

● https://github.com/drush-ops/drush● http://www.drush.org/● https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutoria

ls/a-beginner-s-guide-to-drush-the-drupal-shell● Book : Drush User's Guide, Copyright © 2012

Packt Publishing, First published: April 2012

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