The document discusses the DRUSH tool which provides a command line interface for Drupal. It summarizes the main features of DRUSH including installing it, commonly used commands, running scripts from the command line, and building custom DRUSH plugins.

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4. DRUSH provides a way of executing commands and scripts on a Drupal installation – without the need for the web browser

6. Automates repetitive tasks

7. Gives you a quick and easy overview of your installation

8. BUT MAINLY....

9. IT IS EXTENSIBLE!

10. (more on this in a bit)

11. (But will it make the coffee??)

13. Untar the tarball into a folder outside of your web site (We use /opt/drush)

14. Make sure you have the php-cli (command line interface) package installed

15. chmod u+x /opt/drush/drush (add executable permission)

16. (optional) ln -s /opt/drush/drush /usr/bin/

18. OR

19. Unpack the tarball to a directory, and use the drush.bat script

20. Whenever the documentation or the help text refers to drush [option] <command>' or something similar, 'drush' has to be replaced by 'drush.bat'.

21. If drush.bat is not working for you, either add the directory in which your php.exe resides to your PATH or edit drush.bat to point to your php.exe

23. drush cron

24. drush dl <project>

25. drush pm-enable <project>

26. drush pm-disable <project>

27. drush pm-uninstall <project>

28. drush pm-info <project>

29. drush sql-cli

30. variable-get (vget)

31. variable-set (vset)

32. … and much more (drush help will reveal all)

34. Run drush --user=1 scr test

35. Remember – you are in the drupal environment now

36. You can call all functions like db_query() … variable_get().... node_load()... user_load() ...etc

37. When??

38. Use this when you have a once off script to run

40. Install drush module_builder

41. drush dl module_builder

42. drush pm-enable module_builder

43. Create a module

44. drush mb drush_demo init --write --name=&quot;Drush Demo&quot;

45. drush pm-enable drush_demo

46. Add your drush_demo.drush.inc

47. When??

48. Use this when you have to write functionality that will be used repetitively

50. 3 hook functions are required function drush_demo _drush_command() { $items = array(); $items[' drush_demo - makenode '] = array( 'description' => &quot;This plugin makes a node!&quot;, ); return $items; }

53. DRUSH ?> thanks for listening :) <?php