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Movie Project: Create a Drush Command for Drupal 7

  
Last updated August 6, 2019
Module Development7.x

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

Objectives and Prerequisites

You will need the following knowledge and skills. If you need a review, check out the 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.

Summary

  • 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.

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