Site Sync

A Robo based utility designed to synchronize website content for MySQL based websites such as Drupal and WordPress. It's intended use is keeping local and development websites up-to-date with the live website.

Overview

The utility is installed by placing the phar file in the computer path.

Sites are defined indivually with the site command. The pair command creates a synchronization pair. The sync command is then used synchronize the destination site to source site.

The site and pair definition files are placed in a directory named .robo-site-sync in the account home directory. The site-sync utility has minimal assistance for maintaining these files. They are primarily maintained through a text editor.

Example

The example below assumes the site-sync.phar file has not been placed in the system path.

• php site-sync.phar site create source-site
• php site-sync.phar site create destination-site
• edit the config files
• php site-sync.phar pair my-sync-pair source-site destination-site
• edit the config file
• php site-sync.phar sync my-sync-pair

Installation

• Download the site-sync.phar file
• Check if it works:
  php site-sync.phar --help
• To be able to type site-sync, instead of php site-sync.phar, you need to make the file executable and move it to somewhere in your PATH. For example:
  chmod +x site-sync.phar
mv site-sync.phar ~/bin/site-sync or sudo mv site-sync.phar /usr/local/bin/site-sync
• Test for successful installation:
  site-sync --help

Development

Setup

• git clone the repository
• cd into the project root
• run composer install

Creating a New phar File

• cd to project root
• composer build

Running from the Project

This is useful for testing code changes without recompiling the phar file

• cd to project root
• php init.php {command}