A simple Static Site Generator using PHP
This is not a well-supported Static Site Generator. It is a weekend project to experiment with an interesting approach to build static websites using PHP. Feel free to fork and experiment as well.
You need to have composer installed. Follow these instructions to install it.
git clone https://github.com/filkaris/php-ssg
cd php-ssg
composer install
Edit these values in config.yaml
config:
title: "My Awesome Blog"
subtitle: "Filippos Karailanidis"
To write a new post, create a markdown file inside posts/
vim posts/my-new-post.md
Fill in important metadata on top of the file
---
title: My First Post
date: Fri 12 Jul 2019 06:21:09 PM EEST
summary: "(The summary of said first post)"
---
Run the local server
composer server
Visit http://localhost:8080
To build everything into a static website in the dist/ folder:
composer build
Deploy the dist/ folder anywhere online