Bee

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 and mysqldump 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 to 8.3.

Installation

• Download (or clone) Bee to your computer/server.
  This will create a folder called bee 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:

  1. Put a symlink to bee/bee.php in your $PATH (e.g. sudo ln -s /path/to/bee/bee.php /usr/local/bin/bee)

  2. Make a Bash alias for bee (e.g. add alias bee='/path/to/bee/bee.php' to your .bash_aliases file)

• Test to make sure it works.
  Simply type bee 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.
• 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.