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• Drupal Console
• Required PHP version
• Drupal Console documentation
• Download as new dependency
• Download using DrupalComposer
• Update DrupalConsole
• Install Drupal Console Launcher
• Update DrupalConsole Launcher
• Run Drupal Console
• Supporting organizations

Drupal Console

The Drupal CLI. A tool to generate boilerplate code, interact with and debug Drupal.

Latest Version

Details of the latest version can be found on the Drupal Console project page under https://drupalconsole.com/.

Releases Page

All notable changes to this project will be documented in the releases page

Documentation

The most up-to-date documentation can be found at http://docs.drupalconsole.com/.

More information about using this project at the official documentation.

Required PHP Version

PHP 5.5.9 or higher is required to use the Drupal Console application.

Download as new dependency

# Change directory to Drupal site
cd /path/to/drupal8.dev

# Download DrupalConsole
composer require drupal/console:~1.0 \
--prefer-dist \
--optimize-autoloader \
--sort-packages

Download using DrupalComposer

composer create-project \
drupal-composer/drupal-project:8.x-dev \
drupal8.dev \
--prefer-dist \
--no-progress \
--no-interaction

Update DrupalConsole

composer update drupal/console --with-dependencies

Install Drupal Console Launcher

# 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

Update DrupalConsole Launcher 

drupal self-update

NOTE: drupal is the alias name you used when installed the DrupalConsole Launcher.

Run Drupal Console

Using the DrupalConsole Launcher

drupal

We highly recommend you to install the global executable, but if is not installed, then you can run DrupalConsole by:

vendor/bin/drupal
# or
vendor/drupal/console/bin/drupal

Drupal Console Support

You can ask for support at Drupal Console gitter chat room http://bit.ly/console-support.

Getting The Project To Contribute

For information about how to run this project for development follow instructions at setup instructions.

Enabling Autocomplete

# 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

Supporting Organizations

Drupal is a registered trademark of Dries Buytaert.