Robo: a robust commandline task runner for PHP. I really wanted something native to PHP to handle basic tasks and scripting and Robo fits the bill perfectly for me. Robo is written by the guy who maintains Codeception and I have really enjoyed it for several months now. I also pull in the robo-drush package for drupal sites because it makes things a bit simpler. Below is a generalized version of the scripts I use to sync my local site with remote servers. This script is admittedly far bigger than the short little bash script above, but it is also a lot more flexible; and it is just PHP.

Robo: a robust commandline task runner for PHP. I really wanted something native to PHP to handle basic tasks and scripting and Robo fits the bill perfectly for me. Robo is written by the guy who maintains Codeception and I have really enjoyed it for several months now. I also pull in the robo-drush package for drupal sites because it makes things a bit simpler. Below is a generalized version of the scripts I use to sync my local site with remote servers. This script is admittedly far bigger than the short little bash script above, but it is also a lot more flexible; and it is just PHP.

WP-CLI is a set of command-line tools for managing WordPress installations. You can update plugins, set up multisite installs and much more, without using a web browser.

Modern multitier software architecture allows us to separate concerns when we are building a web application. For example, when there is a request to visualize a content item in Drupal, the request is handed off to a logical handler (module), which should be using some kind of API to read the necessary data from the database. And once it has assembled that data it should invoke the theming engine and its current theme in order for the final output to be rendered all ready to be sent back to the browser that made the request in the first place.