YAB-CMS-FF

Yet another boring CMS for FREE is a free, open source, bootstrap content management system for PHP 8 based on CakePHP 5, CakePHP vendor plugins, the AdminLTE bootstrap admin dashboard template and released under the MIT License.

It is powered by the CakePHP 5 PHP framework.

Requirements

• Apache with mod_rewrite, intl, imagick OR nginx server
• PHP 8.1 or higher
• Latest MySQL or MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite or SQL-Server database engines

Installation

Installation using GitHub Clone

The preferred way to install YAB-CMS-FF is by using HTTP

https://github.com/MarksSoftwareGmbH/YAB-CMS-FF.git

or by using GitHub CLI

gh repo clone MarksSoftwareGmbH/YAB-CMS-FF

When the cloning is finished please enter the cloned project and run

composer update

When the composer update is finished

• Upload the project content into a server htdocs TLD folder.
• Create a new MySQL or MariaDB database (with the utf8mb4_unicode_ci collation).
• Create a new user, set the password and grant the rights for the created database.
• Update the file /config/app_local.php Datasources array with the database, username and password for the default, test_mysql, development and production configurations.
• Update the file /config/app_local.php EmailTransport array with a default email server configuration (SMTP or Mail transport).
• Visit http://your-site.com/ from your browser.
• Visit http://your-site.com/login to login as Admin, the default username: Admin and password: superadmin (Please change this credentials to your needs).
• Visit http://your-site.com/admin/dashboard to manage the backend as Admin.

Installation using the ZIP Archive

• Download and extract the ZIP-file.
• Run composer update
• Upload the unzipped archive content into a server htdocs TLD folder.
• Create a new MySQL or MariaDB database (with the utf8mb4_unicode_ci collation).
• Create a new user, set the password and grant the rights for the created database.
• Update the file /config/app_local.php Datasources array with the database, username and password for the default, test_mysql, development and production configurations.
• Update the file /config/app_local.php EmailTransport array with a default email server configuration (SMTP or Mail transport).
• Visit http://your-site.com/ from your browser.
• Visit http://your-site.com/login to login as Admin, the default username: Admin and password: superadmin (Please change this credentials to your needs).
• Visit http://your-site.com/admin/dashboard to manage the backend as Admin.

Vendor plugins

• CakePHP - Application Skeleton: cakephp/app
• CakePHP - Authentication: cakephp/authentication
• Mark Scherer - TinyAuth Plugin: dereuromark/cakephp-tinyauth
• PHP - JWT: firebase/php-jwt
• Friends Of Cake - Bootstrap UI: friendsofcake/bootstrap-ui
• Friends Of Cake - CsvView Plugin: friendsofcake/cakephp-csvview
• Friends Of Cake - CRUD Plugin: friendsofcake/crud
• Friends Of Cake - Search Plugin: friendsofcake/search
• Intervention - PHP Image Processing: intervention/image
• PHPOffice - PhpSpreadsheet: phpoffice/phpspreadsheet
• PHPOffice - PhpWord: phpoffice/phpword

Suggested vendor plugins you should install via composer

• Mark Story - Asset Compress: markstory/asset_compress
• Mark Scherer - CakePHP IdeHelper Plugin: dereuromark/cakephp-ide-helper
• PHPStan - PHP Static Analysis Tool: phpstan/phpstan

Front- and Backend template

• Colorlib (Aigars Silkalns) - AdminLTE Bootstrap Admin Dashboard Template https://github.com/ColorlibHQ/AdminLTE

Links

• Marks Software GmbH website: https://www.marks-software.de
• Marks Software GmbH on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/SoftwareMarks