antojose.com - Drupal 7

Making use of Drush to save time as a Drupal Site Builder / Themer / Developer / DevOps

admin — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:50:42 +0000

Drush can be one of the nicest tools to have, when you want to speed up quite a lot of your daily Drupal operations.

Here are some of the usages I've come across, for Drupal 7:

Clearing cache:

# clear all caches
drush cc all

# rebuild caches
drush cr

Download and enable modules:

# download module modulename
drush dl modulename

# enable a downloaded module
drush en modulename

# to skip the Yes or No confirmation questions:
drush -y en modulename

Downloading and enabling themes:

# download a theme
drush dl themename

# enabling a theme
drush en themename

# setting an enabled theme as default
drush vset theme_default themename

# setting an enabled theme as the admin theme
drush vset admin_theme themename

# list all installed themes
drush pm-list --type=theme

# show the current themes
drush status theme

Generating dummy content and users using Devel module:

# Download and enable Devel module
drush -y en devel 

# Enable Devel Generate submodule
drush -y en devel_generate

# Generate 50 random nodes, with up to 10 comments each
drush generate-content 50 10

# Generate 20 random users
drush generate-users 20

Export and Import databases:

# export DB to a backup file
drush sql-dump > filename.sql

# import DB from a backup file
drush sql-cli < filename.sql

# delete all data in your DB:
drush sql-drop

Taking a full site backup:

# create a drush archive (code+files+DB)
drush archive-dump

Importing and Exporting site configuration (using Features module):

# Assuming you use Features site wide for Content Types, Contexts, Views...
# Revert all enabled features by overriding current DB config with the features code
drush features-revert-all

# Update all feature modules code based on your current DB config
drush features-update-all

Running updates:

# run all available updates
drush up

References:
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[SOLVED][PHP PEAR] How to fix the error 'could not extract the package.xml file' and 'Download of "pecl/uploadprogress" succeeded, but it is not a valid package archive', when trying to install PECL uploadprogress using PHP PEAR on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty

anto — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 21:45:46 +0000

Setting up, upgrading and maintaining a clean and functional Drupal/PHP Development environment is an art, and quite a piece of cake for the skilled sysadmin. But the ever changing versions of OS packages and dependencies can bring up quite some unexpected challenges to a budding developer. Here is the solution to one such error that might eat your brains out.

Almost all usable versions of Drupal - 6, 7 and 8 - use PECL uploadprogress to show file upload progress.
And installing it on previous Ubuntu, PHP versions was as easy as running the following command:

sudo pecl install uploadprogress

But lately, when trying to install uploadprogress on fresh Ubuntu 14.04.1 Trusty Tahr the same way, it has been showing up the following error:

could not extract the package.xml file from "/build/buildd/php5-5.5.9+dfsg/pear-build-download/uploadprogress-1.0.3.1.tgz"
Download of "pecl/uploadprogress" succeeded, but it is not a valid package archive
Error: cannot download "pecl/uploadprogress"
Download failed
install failed

Solution:

To work around this without breaking your package manager's system, you can install by telling the command (using the '-Z' option) to download the uncompressed version of the archive while installing.
For the above case, you can use the following command:

sudo pecl install -Z uploadprogress

[PATCH] How to set workflow comment during automated stated transition with Workflow Rules Set State Action on a Drupal 7 site

anto — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:37:01 +0000

The Workflow module in Drupal, as part of its Rules module integration, allows you various rules based actions, of which one commonly used one is the action to change the workflow state from state to another. But that one doesn't have an option to set the comment for that state change, which can be quite useful when you see the Workflow History of a node.

I have created a patch for the latest dev version (7.x-1.0+20-dev) of the Workflow module to help you with that:

diff --git a/workflow_rules/workflow_rules.rules.inc b/workflow_rules/workflow_rules.rules.inc
index be9a8b9..21e3b45 100644
--- a/workflow_rules/workflow_rules.rules.inc
+++ b/workflow_rules/workflow_rules.rules.inc
@@ -94,6 +94,12 @@ function workflow_rules_rules_action_info() {
           'options list' => '_workflow_rules_action_select',
           'description' => t('The workflow state to set (select only one).'),
         ),
+        'workflow_comment' => array(
+          'type' => 'text',
+          'label' => t('Workflow Comment'),
+          'description' => t('The workflow comment to set.'),
+          'optional' => TRUE,
+        ),
       ),
     ),
   );
@@ -158,5 +164,9 @@ function workflow_check_state($node, $states) {
  */
 function workflow_rules_set_state($node, $states) {
   $sid = array_pop($states); // Select the last state on the list.
+  if ($comment) {
+    $node->workflow_comment = $comment;
+  }
   workflow_transition($node, $sid);
+  unset($node->workflow_comment);
 }

This patch gives you an additional text area to the action definition form, for you to enter the workflow comment that has to be added while executing the state change. It also does the job of adding this comment during the state transition.

Attachment(the patch file):

My first Drupal core patch is live!

anto — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:05:01 +0000

My first Drupal core patch, that corrects a repeating "have to" in one of the function comments in system.api.php, has gone live in today's Drupal 7 release (version 7.17).

Here's the Issue Post on Drupal.org:

antojose.com - Drupal 7

Making use of Drush to save time as a Drupal Site Builder / Themer / Developer / DevOps

Clearing cache:

Download and enable modules:

Downloading and enabling themes:

Generating dummy content and users using Devel module:

Export and Import databases:

Taking a full site backup:

Importing and Exporting site configuration (using Features module):

Running updates:

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[SOLVED][PHP PEAR] How to fix the error 'could not extract the package.xml file' and 'Download of "pecl/uploadprogress" succeeded, but it is not a valid package archive', when trying to install PECL uploadprogress using PHP PEAR on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty

Solution:

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[PATCH] How to set workflow comment during automated stated transition with Workflow Rules Set State Action on a Drupal 7 site

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My first Drupal core patch is live!

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