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Movie Project: Create a Drush Command for Drupal 7

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Create a custom Drush command, which makes use of re-usable functions within our Movie Import module.

Goal

Create a custom Drush command that will run a movie import function in our custom module.

Prerequisites

You will need the following knowledge and skills. If you need a review, check out the Additional resources section at the bottom of this page.

  1. How to create a custom Drush command for importing content.

Tasks

Write a Drush command in the movie_import custom module, which imports all the films defined in the variable created in the .install file.

Write a Drush command which deletes all movies in the website.

Recap

  • Drush commands allow us to run time-consuming processes without timing out.
  • Drush commands can be used within shell scripts, for example to manage releases of Drupal.

Further your understanding

Additional resources

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Hands-On Exercises: Movie Project