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A standard project skeleton for building applications on top of MMi CMS — a PHP content management system built on the MMi Framework.

Requirements

• PHP 8.5+
• Composer
• SQLite (default) or a supported PDO-compatible database

Getting started

Option 1: PHP built-in server (quickest)

cp .env.dist .env   # if applicable — edit values as needed
make up

This will:

1. Run composer install
2. Set write permissions on var/
3. Create var/db.sqlite
4. Run database migrations (bin/mmi Mmi:DbDeploy)
5. Start the PHP CLI server at http://127.0.0.1:8080

Option 2: Docker + Apache

make docker-up

This builds the image, starts the container (Apache on port 8080), installs dependencies, sets up the database and drops you into a bash shell inside the container. The project root is volume-mounted at /var/www/html.

Stop and remove the container:

make docker-down

Configuration

All runtime configuration is in .env. Key variables:

For Docker, change DB_HOST to /app/var/db.sqlite (see the comment in .env).

Project structure

src/App/
  AppRouterConfig.php     # Extend to add custom routes
  AppSkinsetConfig.php    # Register skin(set) configs here
  di.app.php              # DI container bindings
etc/apache2/              # Apache vhost config (used by Docker)
var/                      # Runtime data — writable by the web server
  cache/
  data/
  db.sqlite
  log/
  session/
bin/mmi                   # CLI entry point

CLI

bin/mmi <Command>:<action>

Useful commands:

bin/mmi Mmi:DbDeploy      # Run pending database migrations
bin/mmi Mmi:Cache:Clean   # Clear all caches

Extending the application

Adding routes

Extend AppRouterConfig in src/App/AppRouterConfig.php:

class AppRouterConfig extends CmsRouterConfig
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
        $this->addRoute(new \Mmi\Mvc\RouterConfig\Route(...));
    }
}

Adding skins/templates

Register a skin in src/App/AppSkinsetConfig.php:

public function __construct()
{
    $this->addSkin(new MySkinConfig());
}

Dependency injection

Add or override services in src/App/di.app.php:

return [
    RouterConfig::class => create(AppRouterConfig::class),
    // add your own bindings here
];

License

MIT