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The Drupal Console is a CLI tool to generate boilerplate code, interact and debug Drupal 8.
Details of the latest version can be found on the Drupal Console project page under https://drupalconsole.com/.
All notable changes to this project will be documented in the releases page
The most up-to-date documentation can be found at http://docs.drupalconsole.com/.
More information about using this project at the official documentation.
PHP 5.5.9 or higher is required to use the Drupal Console application.
# Change directory to Drupal site
cd /path/to/drupal8.dev
# Download DrupalConsole
composer require drupal/console:~1.0 \
--prefer-dist \
--optimize-autoloader \
--sort-packages
composer create-project \
drupal-composer/drupal-project:8.x-dev \
drupal8.dev \
--prefer-dist \
--no-progress \
--no-interaction
# Run this in your terminal to get the latest 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
# Copy configuration files.
drupal init --override
# Check and validate system requirements
drupal check
We highly recommend you to install the global executable, but if is not installed, then you can run DrupalConsole by:
Using default Drupal + DrupalConsole
vendor/bin/drupal
Using default Drupal + DrupalComposer
Change directory web, docroot or any other.
../vendor/bin/drupal
You can ask for support at Drupal Console gitter chat room http://bit.ly/console-support.
For information about how to run this project for development follow instructions at setup instructions.
# 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
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