My Presentation in Drupal Camp Manila 2012 held @ Marine Science Institute UP Diliman this Feb 25, 2012.

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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