Bee is a command line utility for Backdrop CMS. It includes commands that allow
developers to interact with Backdrop sites, performing actions like:
- Running cron
- Clearing caches
- Downloading and installing Backdrop
- Downloading, enabling and disabling projects
- Viewing information about a site and/or available projects
See the Release notes and the Changelog for details of changes between
versions.
Requirements
Operating System
- Bee will work in most Linux based environments.
- Bee will NOT work natively in Windows but can be used inside Linux based
virtual environments such as WSL2. - Bee requires the
mysql
andmysqldump
executables to be installed for most
database operations (i.e.db-export
,db-import
,db-drop
,sql
but NOT
db-query
).
PHP
- Bee is tested and works from
7.4
up to8.3
.
Installation
-
Download (or clone) Bee to your computer/server.
This will create a folder calledbee
with lots of files inside. Your home
directory is a good location for this folder. It is neither required nor
recommended to place this folder within the Backdrop web root. -
Make sure
bee/bee.php
is executable.
It should be by default, but it doesn't hurt to double-check. -
Make it easy to run
bee
commands.
There are two ways to do this:-
Put a symlink to
bee/bee.php
in your$PATH
(e.g.
sudo ln -s /path/to/bee/bee.php /usr/local/bin/bee
) -
Make a Bash alias for
bee
(e.g. addalias bee='/path/to/bee/bee.php'
to
your.bash_aliases
file)
-
-
Test to make sure it works.
Simply typebee
in your terminal and you should see a list of available
commands displayed.
More advanced/specialised installation instructions can be found in the
wiki.
Extending
Bee can be extended (i.e. custom/additional commands added) by Backdrop contrib
modules or by individual users. See
API.md for
details.
Issues
Bugs and feature requests should be reported in the issue queue:
https://github.com/backdrop-contrib/bee/issues.
Current Maintainers
- Martin Price - System Horizons
- Collaboration and co-maintainers welcome!
Credits
- Originally written for Backdrop CMS by
Geoff St. Pierre
(originally called 'Backdrop Console (a.k.a.b
)'). - Grateful thanks goes to previous maintainers and collaborators who have
helped bring Bee to where it is today. See the
list of contributors
for details. Contributions by "BWpanda" were made by Peter Anderson and not the
user who is currently associated with the "BWpanda" user name. - Inspired by Drush.
- Bee icon
by AomAm from the Noun Project.
License
This project is GPL v2 software.
See the LICENSE.txt file in this directory for complete text.