Drupal – Drush, a must have command line tool

This is a very useful command line tool for Drupal install/management:

http://drupal.org/project/drush

Nice set up instructions on Mac OSX can be found at:

http://nodeone.se/blogg/drupal/how-install-drush-drupal-shell

And here are some configurations to get you going:

# Basic fully loaded aproximatly the same as Acquia
drush dl cck admin_menu advanced_help apachesolr calendar comment_notify date filefield fivestar forum google_analytics image imageapi imagecache imagefield img_assist lightbox2 link markdown mollom pathauto print tagadelic token views votingapi webform

# The A-list
drush dl devel wysiwyg jquery_update diff freelinking views_bulk_operations workspace workflow custom_pagers i18n l10n_client flag ubercart 

# The image A-list
drush dl imagecache imagefield imce

# The filters A-list
drush dl typogrify markdown geshifilter
# Everything from above
drush dl
drush dl cck admin_menu advanced_help apachesolr calendar comment_notify date filefield fivestar forum google_analytics image imageapi imagecache imagefield img_assist lightbox2 link markdown mollom pathauto print tagadelic token views votingapi webform devel wysiwyg jquery_update diff freelinking views_bulk_operations workspace workflow custom_pagers i18n l10n_client flag ubercart  imagecache imagefield imce typogrify markdown geshifilter

Drupal modules A-list

This is my list of the best Drupal modules:

Must Have

• CCK (http://drupal.org/project/cck) Lets you add fields to node types.
• Views (http://drupal.org/project/views) Important if you want any sort of list of things in a drupal site
• Devel (http://drupal.org/project/devel) Adds usefull development tools
• wysiwig (http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg) Allows various wysiwyg jscript editors code to run unmodified in Drupal – at the moment the best editor is TinyMCE 3.2.4.X this is the only one that works on Mac/Linux reliably.
• jQueryUpdate (http://drupal.org/project/jquery_update) Gets/keeps jquery libraries up to date.

Useful if you need them

• Administration menu 6.x-1.1 (http://drupal.org/project/admin_menu) nice admin menu
• FileField 6.x-3.0-alpha6 (http://drupal.org/project/filefield) much better file upload field for CCK – best for mass uploads.
• Advanced help 6.x-1.0 (http://drupal.org/project/advanced_help) give your site a good help system
• Amazon 6.x-1.0-beta3 (http://drupal.org/project/amazon) Amazon payment API’s shoping carts etc.
• Fivestar 6.x-1.13 (http://drupal.org/project/fivestar) Voting system – need this as well Voting API 6.x-2.0-beta6 (http://drupal.org/project/votingapi)
• Diff 6.x-2.0 (http://drupal.org/project/diff) se the diffence between page revisions
• Freelinking 6.x-1.6 (http://drupal.org/project/freelinking) one way of doing page links
• Pathauto 6.x-1.1 (http://drupal.org/project/pathauto) make better URLS rather than xxx/node/23 you can have xxx/pagetitle
• Token 6.x-1.10 (http://drupal.org/project/token) gives you ability to have constants – bits of text placed in site but able to update centrally
• Views Bulk Operations 6.x-1.1 (http://drupal.org/project/views_bulk_operations) Bulk operations for views, delete all selected etc.
• Workspace 6.x-1.3 (http://drupal.org/project/workspace) central place for user to see all their content MyPages etc.
• Workflow 6.x-1.1 (http://drupal.org/project/workflow) Implements review/publish workflow very flexable
• Custom Pagers 6.x-1.10-beta1 (http://drupal.org/project/custom_pagers) Next/Previous links on pages
• Internationalization 6.x-1.0-beta1 (http://drupal.org/project/i18n)
• Localization client 6.x-1.3 (http://drupal.org/project/l10n_client)
• Calendar 6.x-2.0-rc3 (http://drupal.org/project/calendar)
• Date 6.x-2.0-rc3 (http://drupal.org/project/date) good CCK date field
• Flag 6.x-1.0-beta5 (http://drupal.org/project/flag) flag pages as offensive etc.
  Ubercart 6.x-2.x-dev (2008-Nov-3) (http://drupal.org/project/ubercart) Killer shopping cart.
• Scrollable jQuery Views (http://drupal.org/project/scrollable)

Url manipulation

• Sub path alias helps remove urls like node/XX/more http://drupal.org/project/subpath_alias it also needs http://drupal.org/project/url_alter
• Global redirect of URL’s makes sure the search/user goes to the best URL alias, get rid of node/123 forever! http://drupal.org/project/globalredirect

Images

• ImageCache 6.x-1.0-alpha2 (http://drupal.org/project/imagecache) Alloows thumbnails, image sies to be automatically created and then cached for eficiency
• ImageField 6.x-3.0-alpha1 (http://drupal.org/project/imagefield) Image upload field for CCK
• IMCE 6.x-1.1 (http://drupal.org/project/imce) image upload facilities for user, file galleries etc If you also install TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor you will also need the http://drupal.org/project/imce_wysiwyg module.

Filters

• Typogrify (http://drupal.org/project/typogrify) tidies up a lot of issues in text, ampersands, curly quotes, stops orphan  single words on a line.
• Markdown filter (http://drupal.org/project/markdown) Markdown is an alternative to WYSIWYG, easy textbased formatting. I am using it in this email.
• Code markup (http://drupal.org/project/geshifilter)
• Pathologic (http://drupal.org/project/pathologic) fixes up internal links, especially useful if you move one server to anther