It is a CMS created with Slim Framework that doesn't use Database to store the content of the site.
- Powerful and Flexible
- Smaller learning curve than other CMS
- Easy installing
- Separation between Users and Designers
- No Developers needed
- No database needed
- Get or download the project
- Install it using Composer
Also you can download the different versions from: https://github.com/revuls/SlimCMS/releases Then Upload the files to your server.
- admin/
- content/
- lib/
- themes/
- index.php
All the content is stored in this folder using json files. Structure of the content folder:
blog/ media/ menu/ pages/ config.php
2.1.1 config.json
This file contents the Config variables of the Site
{
"title": "Bootsoft",
"description": "This is a Great site",
"user": "admin",
"password": "d033e22ae348aeb5660fc2140aec35850c4da997",
"theme": "foundation5",
"url": ""
}Password encoded in sha1
2.1.2 pages/
One json file per Page. Format: {slug}.json
{
"Template": "template2",
"Slug": "about",
"Title": "About page",
"Description": "Description goes here",
"Content": "This is the About content",
"Variables": {
"Block1": "This is the block 1",
"Block2": "This is the block 2"
}
}2.1.3 blog/
One json file per Post. Format: {DateTime}_{slug}.json
{
"Slug": "hello-world",
"Title": "Hello World",
"Author": "Cesar Redondo",
"Date": "11\/26\/2013",
"Tag": "hello,world",
"Category": "General",
"Description": "Description goes here",
"Content": "This is a hello world example",
"DateTime": 1385496962
}2.1.4 menu/
One json file per Menu (header, footer, sidebar...). Format: {menu_name}.json
{
"Link1": "http://urlofsite.com/index",
"Link2": "http://urlofsite.com/page2",
"Link3": "http://urlofsite.com/page3",
"Link4": "http://urlofsite.com/page4"
}2.1.5 media/
Here we have the images, videos, etc... To be accesible when creating the content of the pages and posts.
Simple and easy to use admin tool. To add content to the site go to: http://your_url/admin
Default Login that can be changed in the config
- User: admin
- Password: admin
Here we have the folders of the different Themes.
Basic structure of one Theme:
{name_theme}/
css/
img/
js/
layout/
templates/
404.html
article.html
blog.html
index.html
page.htmlExample of simple page using variables:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>{{config.title}}</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
<h1>{{page.Title}}</h1>
{{page.Content}}
</body>
</html>The Flexibility and Power of Twig can be used in the templates. Here you have the official documentation for designers: http://twig.sensiolabs.org/doc/templates.html
2.3.1 Variables
These are the variables that we can use in Themes:
{{config}}
{{config.title}}
{{config.description}}
{{config.user}}
{{config.theme}}
{{page}}
{{page.Title}}
{{page.Slug}}
{{page.Author}} //In posts of the Blog
{{page.Date}} //In posts of the Blog
{{page.Tag}} //In posts of the Blog
{{page.Category}} //In posts of the Blog
{{page.Description}}
{{page.Content}}
{{page.Variables}} //In pages only
{{page.Variables.nameOfVariable}}
{{blog}}
{{menus}}
{{themes}}All the slim framework routing functionality This is the routing used in the project:
// Index Page
$app->get('/', function () use ($app) {
// Render index.html
});
// Page
$app->get('/:slug', function ($slug) use ($app) {
// Render page.html
});
// Blog
$app->get('/blog/', function () use ($app) {
// Render blog.html
});
// Blog Article
$app->get('/blog/:slug', function ($slug) use ($app) {
// Render article.html
});- Fork the SlimCMS repository
- Create a new branch for each feature or improvement
- Send a pull request from each feature branch to the develop branch