README

Symfony Bundle to create a CMS with flat files into a symfony app.

Purpose

Provide a solution to a CMS feature in an existing symfony app.

• Content in markdown files

Fast installation

Requirements : install a basic symfony app with composer.

symfony new my_project_directory --version="6.3.*"
composer require checlou/flat-file-cms-bundle

Set the configuration in config/packages/checlou_flat_file_cms.yaml :

checlou_flat_file_cms:
  content_path: '%kernel.project_dir%/var/cms'

Copy files from Tests/Functional/app/Website/cms to var/cms to a basic page dataset.

Theming

The default theming is a basic bootstrap 4 theme. You can override it by overriding the twig templates.

• Write documentation to explain how to override twig templates

Content example

File

Name of the file : a-page.md

---
title: Page title
type: page
slug: a-page.html
---

Summary

===

Main content

Two differents types of content :

• page : a page with a title, a summary and a main content
• post : a post with a title, a summary and a main content

Default values :

• type : page
• slug : filename with .html extension and path as prefix
• title : filename without extension

Organized by folders

content/
├── a-page.md
├── index.md
├── blog/
│   ├── a-post.md
│   └── another-post.md
│   └── a-category/
│       └── a-post.md

The index.md file is the content used to display the home page of the CMS. You can use this kind of file to create a page with a slug like

• /home with an index.md file in the folder home/

Others solutions to manage flat files

Pico CMS or Grav CMS

Full app to manage a website with flat files. But you can not use it to add a CMS feature to an existing app. Use Symfony components.

• https://symfony.com/projects/grav
• https://symfony.com/projects/pico

Symfony Bundles

• https://github.com/maschmann/MarkdownContentBundle : too old (last commit in 2015)

Twig markdown to html

Extension to convert markdown to html in twig templates. We do not use it. Should we use it ?

https://twig.symfony.com/doc/3.x/filters/markdown_to_html.html

Ideas

• https://coconnell.dev/posts/2023-10-08-creating-a-markdown-blog-with-symfony

Todo

• More tests of Page and Pages class and Twig extension
• Shortcode system
• Inject global vars to use in markdown : by configuration and by event
• Content cache to rebuild without parsing files
• Configure the CMS to say that pages are isolated (no parent) even if it's in a subfolder
  • Usecase : a specific folder with isolated pages
• Transform link to markdown file to the url of the page
  • Usecase : use autocompletion in markdown editor to link to another page
• Command to generate all the website as an artefact
  • Usecase : use Github Pages to host the website
• Use https://twig.symfony.com/doc/3.x/filters/markdown_to_html.html ?