Drush

Drush can be used for installing website programmatically. However after installation, you might want to update the synchronization.

Install Drupal database:
Installs drupal when executed inside the drupal folder.

Remove Shortcut links:

With the advent of Drupal 8 and composer integration, there is a better way of installing Drush.

Install Composer:
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Enable Composer access for All Users:

Install Drush:

drush aliases allow you to run a drush commands on your local server but actually execute the command on a remote server.

One can create aliases in a folder that drush recognizes, mostly inside the .drush folder for Linux Based Systems. For a mysite example, we can create a file called as mysite.aliases.drushrc.php inside the .drush folder (Or any folder which Drush goes through before executing). All aliases in a site can also be combined in a single file called as aliases.drushrc.php

Example data that can be added to mysite.aliases.drushrc.php

<?php

Drush is a very handy tool which makes development in Drupal very fast and easy. Almost everyting is JACA("just a command away"). This particualr tip will help you to evaluate your php code using Drush.

Examples:

Consider a function: ji_custom($node). To evaluate/debug this function I type following in Drush:

Aliases for php-eval are: eval, ev

N.B: JACA is invented while writing this post :)

Many times we use Views Buk Operations with Batch Api for doing a big set of operations. When the count of operations is huge, even Batch API gets short. A faster and more efficient way to do that is using drush to do the heavy backlifting.

The commands are:

Examples: