drush archive

Drush is a Drupal developers Swiss-army knife. Of course there are the favorite commands that you probably use every day: drush sql-cli, drush pm-enable. Drush pm-download and drush pm-update are probably pretty commonly used as well. I'm going to use their aliases for the rest of this blog post: drush dl and drush up. drush up is actually a combination of drush pm-updatecode (drush upc) and drush updatedb (drush updb). In my examples I'll be using the Views module, but the same applies for any module or theme. Read More…

Recently I was working on a site for a library that had a lot of data that needed to be imported into Drupal as nodes. Each book title, e-book, DVD, etc. needed to be a node inside of their Drupal 7 website. Not only that, but the database that held this data would add new records and occasionally update and remove existing ones. This meant about 300,000 - 400,000 nodes that had to be created and kept synchronized with their internal database. In this post I'll outline how I made use of Drush and the batch API to import the dataset into Drupal from a terminal. Read More…