Adolfo G. Nasol presents an overview of Drush, a command line tool for managing Drupal websites, highlighting its ease of use and benefits for both beginners and developers. The document covers Drush commands, its advantages over GUI, and its ability to automate repetitive tasks, making it essential for system administration. It concludes with resources and links for further learning about Drush.

1. ADOLFO G. NASOL
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2. Who am I?
 Adolfo G. Nasol (danreb)
 Website builder for 4 years but get hooked in
drupal in the last 2 years and 41 weeks
 Information and Communication Technology
(ICT) student (June, 2012)
 A product of (TVET) Technical Vocational
Education and Training
 Part time TVET Trainer
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3. Presenting
DRUSH FOR DRUPAL WEBSITE BUILDER
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4. What is not included?
 Drush Installation
 Using drush to synchronizes and
deploy sites
 Advance drush command like
running arbitrary PHP script from
drush
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5. What is Drush?
Drush is a command line and
scripting interface for Drupal, a
veritable Swiss army knife
designed to make life easier for
those of us who spend some of
our working hours hacking away
at the command prompt.
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6. Drush is not a module
Drush = Drupal + Shell
+ =
DRUPAL + SHELL SCRIPTING = DRUSH
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7. Drush is a tool
Drush provides a way
of executing
commands and scripts
on a Drupal
installation through
shell or command line
interface on your web
server
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8. Do I need to learn Drush?
Q - I’m beginner, is drush for me
too?
A - Yes!, drush command is easy
Q - What makes newbie nervous
about drush?
A - Drush is a command line
program and worried of
breaking their site.
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9. Do I need to learn Drush?
Q – I think drush is only for
developers?
A – No!, If you manage a
Drupal website, drush is
something you should
know!
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10. Why developers love
Drush?
 Programmers hate work
that is tedious and
repetitive, drush can
automate repetitive tasks.
 Drush is written in PHP,
they can easily extend
drush if needed.
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11. What Drush can do that GUI
can’t?
 Save bunch of time!
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12. Why use drush?
 Use drush to keep your site up to date
 One installation to rule all your drupal site on
your server
 A must tools for system admin
 Easy to remember commands
 Easiest way of updating drupal website, it can
update core and modules in one command
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13. Other possible uses of
drush
 Manage modules
 Manage users
 Execute Drupal commands
 Manipulate and extract site variables
 Executes MySQL queries using drupal
configuration
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14. Let start using Drush!
Drush Command Structure
Command Options Arguments
In shell just type –
$ drush <command> [options]
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15. Drush Common Commands
 dl - Downloads a module or theme
 en - Enable module or theme
 dis - Disable module or theme
 cc - Clear the cache
 cron - Runs all registered cron hooks
 si - Do a complete drupal installation
 sql-dump - performs mysqldump
 st – Show basic information about a drupal site
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16. Drush Common Commands
 pm-list - Show list of extensions
 wd-del - Delete watchdog messages
 vget - Get a list of some or all variables
 vset - set a variable
 upd - Apply database update
 up - Update Drupal core, modules, themes
and performs database update
 uli - Display one time login link
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17. Drush Common Commands
 ws - Show watchdog message
 sql-cli - Open a SQL command-line interface
using Drupal’s credential
 help - To see all available command
- example -
$ drush help | more
or just
$ drush help
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18. Let’s see it in action!
Time for demonstration
Thanks!
ADOLFO G. NASOL
Blog: http://danreb.com
Website: http://cavhost.com
Drupal: http://drupal.org/user/547004
Mobile: +63 9195951276
Phone: (046) 8530347
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19. Resources and Useful Links
 http://drush.ws/resources
 http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2009/ju
n/19/drush-more-beer-less-effort/
 http://www.only10types.com/2011/03/drush-
backup-and-migrate-command.html
 http://www.slideshare.net/SergeiStryukov/dru
sh-why-should-it-be-used
 http://drupal.org/node/484720
 http://drupal.org/node/670460
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20. Many Thanks!
THANK YOU ALL!
PRESENTED @
DRUPAL CAMP MANILA 2012
FEB. 25, 2012
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