Change drupal connection command line

Posted by mallezie on January 3, 2013 at 3:55pm

I am looking for a way to change the database connection in the settings.php file, through command line.
I was wondering if there was an api-call or drush method which would allow me to do this. An option off course is do use grep and replace parts of the string.
Hope anyone could point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance!

Comments

The only way I know to do

Posted by nevets on January 3, 2013 at 5:31pm

The only way I know to do that is to edit the file.

Didn't find any drush /

Posted by mallezie on January 8, 2013 at 8:35am

Didn't find any drush / drupal api possibility, so ended out with sed. Just sharing here ;-)

dbstring="'default' => array('default' => array('database' => '******', 'username' => '*****', 'password' => '******', 'host' => 'localhost', 'port' => '', 'driver' => 'mysql', 'prefix' => '' ) ), "
sed "s/\$databases = array();/\$databases = array( $dbstring );/" ../sites/default/default.settings.php > ../sites/default/settings.php