Easy Drupal Project Deployment With Features Module & Drush

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• Drupal is way more stable and reliable than any other CMS

• Drupal is easier to scale• Drupal developers are more tech savvy • If it’s good enough for a White House page it has

to be of the best

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1. Why Drupal?

2. Issues that can be faced using Drupal

Your logic is stored both in code and DB It is not integral Multiple developpers involved in development

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3. How does Features module help?

3.1. What is the Features module?3.2. What can be exported using Features module?3.3. Features API

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3.1. What is the Features module?

Feature Home Page: http://goo.gl/vMpBtW

The features module enables the capture and management of features in Drupal. A feature is a collection of Drupal entities which taken together satisfy a certain use-case.

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3.1. What is the Features module?

Features provides a UI and API for taking different site building components from modules with exportables and bundling them together in a single feature module. A feature module is like any other Drupal module except that it declares its components (e.g. views, contexts, CCK fields, etc.) in its .info file so that it can be checked, updated, or reverted programmatically. (src: http://goo.gl/vMpBtW)

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3.1. What is the Features module?

Examples:• A blog• A pressroom• An image gallery• An e-commerce t-shirt store(src: http://goo.gl/vMpBtW)

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3.2. What can be exported using Features module?

URL: /admin/structure/features/createCode: /features/includes

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3.2. What can be exported using Features module?

Content Types

Stored in Features:• Name• Description• Submission form settings• Publishing options• Display settings• Comment settings• Menu settungs• Etc.

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3.2. What can be exported using Features module?

Modules our Feature depends on.

Dependencies

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3.2. What can be exported using Features module?

Field Bases

The way that field data is stored in the database

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3.2. What can be exported using Features module?

Field Instances

Field settings in content types:

• Widget type• Label• Required/not required• Help text• Number of values

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3.2. What can be exported using Features module?

Menus and Menu links

• Menu settings

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• Menu links settings

3.2. What can be exported using Features module?

Permissions and Roles

• Permission settings

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• User role settings

3.2. What can be exported using Features module?Taxonomy

Taxonomy Vocabulary settings

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3.2. What can be exported using Features module?

Text Formats

Text format settings:• Name• Roles• Filters

• Filter order• Etc.

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3.3. Features API

- Is that all that I can do using Features module?

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- Is that all that I can do using Features module?-NO

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3.3. Features API

• Features API documentation: http://goo.gl/l4EAIF

• Features API code snippets: http://goo.gl/9qZNLc

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3.3. Features API

Modules that extend Features functionality:• Strongarm ( http://goo.gl/Z091M0 ) Gives a way to export Drupal variables• Features Extra (http://goo.gl/mVfdK7 ) Allows to export Blocks and Nodequeues• Features Diff (http://goo.gl/v8445F ) Shows the diffs of a single or all features

modules

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3.3. Features API

Popular modules integrated with Features:• Panels• Views• UUID

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3.3. Features API

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4. Drush

• Drush• Features with Drush• Drush API• Deployment with Drush

Drush = Drupal + shell

Drush is the command line to manage your drupal site.

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4.1. What is Drush?

Drush can:• Install Drupal core• install and remove modules• flush caches• login as any user• execute any sql database queries• etc

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4.2. What is Drush?

Install and enable a few modules

drush dl views, admin_menudrush en views, views_ui, admin_menu

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4.3. Drash saves time.

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4.4. Using Drush + Features.

Reverts all features: drush features-revert-all drush fr-all

List of components that can be transferred: drush features-components drush fc

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4.4. Using Drush + Features.

Update feature:

drush features-update MY_FEATURE_NAME drush fu MY_FEATURE_NAME

Create a new feature, or add components to the existing one:

drush feature-export MY_FEATURE_NAME component1 component2 drush fe MY_FEATURE_NAME component1 component2 drush fe MY_FEATURE_NAME component1 --version-increment

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4.4. Using Drush + Features.

The list of Drush commands for working with Features you can find here

http://goo.gl/DiUPfO

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4.5. Drush APIWriting your own Drush commands:

1. Create MY_MODULE.drush.inc file2. Declare the command using hook_drush_command

3. Describe the command callback

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4.5. Drush API

Full description of Drush API can be found here:

http://goo.gl/8gb87Z

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4.6. Deployment with Drush

Automate the deployment process with Drush

cd /var/www/my_projectgit pull origin masterdrush updatedb --y

drush cc alldrush fr-all --y

drush cc all

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