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Katana static site & blog generator
PHP static site & blog generator with markdown support.
Using the power of laravel's Blade templating engine.
Katana was inspired by Jigsaw by Adam Wathan and the folks at Tighten.
Requirements
- PHP 5.5.9+ or newer
- Apache or Nginx server
- Composer
Installation
To install a fresh Katana installation you need to install composer & run the following command:
Once the installation is done you may build your website using the command:
Katana is shipped with sample content to help you get started immediately, and after this command runs your site will be generated in the /public
directory.
Documentation
The complete Katana documentation can be found here: http://themsaid.github.io/katana/
Blog generator
Katana is shipped with a static blog generator, all you need to do is create a new .blade.php
file in the /content/_blog
directory and Katana
will compile all the posts and present them in a view of your choice.
Blog posts list is paginated based on the configuration options in config.php
. There's also a $blogPosts
variable available in all your blade
views that contains an array of posts.
Blade templating engine
Blade is a simple yet powerful templating engine built for laravel, you need to check Blade's documentation if you're not already familiar with it.
Using with GitHub Pages
You can use Katana to publish a website over GitHub Pages using subtrees, the idea is to deploy the public directory as the master branch of your user GitHub pages repository or the gh-pages branch of your project repository.
You can find the full details in the documentation.
Contribution
Contributions are welcomed in this repository https://github.com/themsaid/katana-core where all source files exist.