A Bash Script for New projects

create-project.sh

# CONFIGURATION

#MYSQL credentials
MYSQL_USER="root"
MYSQL_PASS=""

# The user Apache runs as - e.g. _www, www-data
APACHE_RUNAS="_www"

#Bitbucket credentials
BB_USER="USERNAME"
BB_PASS="PASSWORD"

#Hostname TLD - e.g. .local, .dev
HOSTNAME_TLD=".local"

#Slugs are generated by replacing spaces with... (e.g. a dash, or underscore)
space_replace_char='-'

# CONFIGURATION ENDS

# Ask the user for a project name
echo "Please enter the project name:"
read name

# Generate a default slug, e.g. a-project-named-something
default_slug=$(echo "$name" | tr A-Z a-z )
default_slug=$(echo "$default_slug" | tr ' ' "$space_replace_char")

# Allow the user to override the generated slug
echo "Enter the slug, or enter to accept the default: "$default_slug

read slug

if [ "$slug" = "" ]; then
	slug=$default_slug
fi

echo "Using "$slug" as the slug"

# Assign the variables
host=$slug".local"

# Create a project directory
directory="/var/www/"$slug

# Generate a database name
database=$(echo "$name" | tr A-Z a-z )
database=$(echo $database | tr -d ' ')

echo "Creating directory "$directory

# Create the directory
sudo mkdir $directory

# Change ownership
sudo chown -R $USER:$APACHE_RUNAS $directory

echo "Creating virtual host "$host

# Create the entry in hosts
echo "127.0.0.1\t\t$host\n" >> /etc/hosts

# Append the virtual host entry
echo "<VirtualHost *:80>\nServerName $host\nDocumentRoot $directory\n\n\t<Directory />\n\t\tAllowOverride All\n\t\tRewriteEngine On\n\t\tRewriteBase /\n\t</Directory>\n\n</VirtualHost>" >> /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

echo "Creating database "$database

# Create a temporary file to create a database schema
echo "create database $database;" > temp.sql

# Create the schema; of course we'll have to stop and ask for the DB password
if [ "$MYSQL_PASS" = "" ]; then
	mysql -u$MYSQL_USER < temp.sql
else
	mysql -u$MYSQL_USER -p$MYSQL_PASS < temp.sql
fi

# Remove the temporary SQL file
rm temp.sql

# Create the git repo
curl -u$BB_USER:$BB_PASS -X POST https://api.bitbucket.org/1.0/repositories -d "name=$slug" -d 'is_private=1' -d 'scm=git'

# Change into the new project directory
cd $directory

# Run Git init...
git init

# ...and point it to Bitbucket
git remote add origin ssh://git@bitbucket.org/$BB_USER/$slug.git

# Create the Sublime Project
echo '{\n\t"folders":\n\t[\n\t\t{\n\t\t\t"path": "'$directory'"\n\t\t}\n\t]\n}' > ~/$name.sublime-project

echo "Finished."

More details in the accompanying blog post.