Table of Contents generated with DocToc
The Drupal Console is a suite of tools that you run on a command line interface (CLI) to generate boilerplate code and interact with a Drupal 8 installation.
All notable changes to this project will be documented in the releases page
The Drupal 8 supported version is Drupal 8.0.0.
You can read or download the Drupal Console documentation at bit.ly/console-book.
You can ask for support at Drupal Console gitter chat room http://bit.ly/console-support.
# Run this in your terminal to get the latest Console version:
curl https://drupalconsole.com/installer -L -o drupal.phar
# Or if you don't have curl:
php -r "readfile('https://drupalconsole.com/installer');" > drupal.phar
# Accessing from anywhere on your system:
mv drupal.phar /usr/local/bin/drupal
# Apply executable permissions on the downloaded file:
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/drupal
# Show all available commands.
drupal list
# Copy configuration files.
drupal init [--override]
# Generate a module.
drupal generate:module
Fork your own copy of the Console repository to your account
Get a copy of your recently cloned version of console in your machine.
$ git clone git@github.com:[your-git-user-here]/DrupalConsole.git
Now that you have cloned the project, you need to download dependencies via Composer.
$ cd /path/to/DrupalConsole
$ composer install
# You can enable autocomplete by executing
drupal init
# Bash: Bash support depends on the http://bash-completion.alioth.debian.org/
# project which can be installed with your package manager of choice. Then add
# this line to your shell configuration file.
source "$HOME/.console/console.rc" 2>/dev/null
# Zsh: Add this line to your shell configuration file.
source "$HOME/.console/console.rc" 2>/dev/null
# Fish: Create a symbolic link
ln -s ~/.console/drupal.fish ~/.config/fish/completions/drupal.fish
