This is a blog about PHP.
The blog itself is a project of ultra light CMS that doesn't use a database and is based on MarkDown files.
So far this is the very initial phase.
The idea is not only to create a blog, but to create a CMS framework that be ligthing fast, highly efficient and scalable.
This project aims to prove that not every problem needs to be solved in the same way, and that there are many other data structure alternatives, including the already efficient OS's file system.
Also, file formats like Yaml with FrontMatter allow you to store additional meta information.
At some point this project will branch into 2 projects:
- A installable framework to be used by any site that requires a CMS.
- An administration application that allows to manage the content and configuration of multiple instances of the CMS.
- Serve pages by parsing the content written in MarkDown with Front Matter
This is what I need for the blog to be usable:
- Template system
- Compiling front end assets and include them in the templates
- Allowing sub blocks of information
- Handle assets in a CDN
What I want to achieve for the project to be more mature and be able to be used in more serious situations.
- (Site) Basic block system for additional information that can be included in different pages
- (Admin) Register CMS sites
- (Admin) Navigate and view content markdown files and their information
- (Admin) Basic editing of the content
- (Admin) Image editing for the content
- (Admin) Trigger assets compilation in the site
- (Admin) Deploy sites/site changes
- (Search) Create a Full text search engine that can be efficient without a database and can index incrementally
- (Site) Use the search engine
- (Site) Handle internationalization
- (Admin) Handle translations of content
- (Admin) Manage blocks
- (Site) More advance block system
The project contains a docker configuration to run the project locally.
- Make sure to download and install docker
- Clone the repository
- Build docker:
docker-compose build - Run it:
docker-compose up - Install PHP dependecies:
docker-compose exec -it php.test composer install - Install Node dependencies:
docker-compose exec -it php.test npm install - Compile WebPack:
docker-compose exec -it php.test npm run dev - Visit http://localhost/
After that you can add any MarkDown FrontMatter documents in the /content/ directory.
For example, adding a document /content/index.md and that will be render under http://localhost/.
Another example, addint a document /content/2023/05/15/a-nice-post.md would show under http://localhost/2023/05/15/a-nice-post/.