HamletCMS

About

This is a blogger style content management system for writing articles to blogs. A hobby project, it is not in use in the real world as yet.

Check out the wiki for some documentation https://github.com/rbertram90/HamletCMS/wiki.

Current status

In development: dev-master has known issues

Current functionality

Create multiple blogs
Create, edit and delete posts
Edit stylesheet
Import external stylesheets
Apply templates
Add multiple contributors
Header, footer and post content are fully customisable
Add tags to posts

Technical

Front end utilises Semantic UI (https://semantic-ui.com/)

The application is build upon my own library of PHP classes, see https://github.com/rbertram90/core. Views use the Smarty templating engine.

Data is stored both in MySQL database and within the file system

default.php - one line file which includes the blog setup script
default.css - stylesheet from templates
images
blog_config.json - any other configuration changes made through settings menu
blog specific smarty templates

Installation

git clone https://github.com/rbertram90/HamletCMS-project.git my-project
Remove the .git folder and run git init to start your project repository
composer install
Create database (default name = hamlet)
Copy /config/config_default.json -> /config/config.json
Change database connection details in config.json
Change environment.root_directory and environment.public_directory in config.json to reflect your file system
Run php ./app/updatepublic.php to copy accross required Hamlet files into your public directory - this will overwrite both index.php and .htaccess files if they already exist
Navigate to the site - you should be redirected to /cms/install
Complete the install form
Check everything is working, if not raise a Github issue with details!