C# Method - Publish Entire Sitecore Site

Question

I have an odd request. I am wondering if it is possible to have your C# solution file publish the entire Site from the master database to the web database. I am in my development environment and the amount of items in Sitecore is changing daily as I am working with multiple people. This is not something that is going to be used to Production Content Management or Content Delivery. Purely development.

Is it possible to trigger a full Site publish in C# just like pressing the publish button in the content editor? And what would the code look like?

/sitecore/shell/Applications/Publish.aspx

I assume this C# method would work with Sitecore.Publishing.PublishManager?

Thanks!

Answer 1

We also use that on our projects... We have that placed in a regular .aspx page. I hope that helps:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    PublishMode publishMode = PublishMode.Full;

    using (new Sitecore.SecurityModel.SecurityDisabler())
    {
        var webDb = Sitecore.Configuration.Factory.GetDatabase("web");
        var masterDb = Sitecore.Configuration.Factory.GetDatabase("master");

        try
        {
            foreach (Language language in masterDb.Languages)
            {
                //loops on the languages and do a full republish on the whole sitecore content tree
                var options = new PublishOptions(masterDb, webDb, publishMode, language, DateTime.Now) { RootItem = masterDb.Items["/sitecore"], RepublishAll = true, Deep = true };

                var myPublisher = new Publisher(options);
                myPublisher.Publish();
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            Sitecore.Diagnostics.Log.Error("Could not publish", ex);
        }
    }
}