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flextype/flextype
=================

Modern Open Source Flat Files Content Management System.

v0.9.16(5y ago)59069674[28 issues](https://github.com/flextype/flextype/issues)MITPHPPHP ^7.4 || ^8.0CI failing

Since Mar 20Pushed 3y ago30 watchersCompare

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INTRODUCTION
------------

[](#introduction)

**Flextype** is Modern Open Source Flat Files Content Management System. Building this Content Management System, we focused on simplicity. To achieve this, we implemented a simple but powerful API's.

With Flextype, you are in complete control. Design your data structure the way you want. Update and share your data with others and teams using version control. Flextype does not require MySQL database, because all the data are collected in a simple files. Perfect portability when changing your hosting provider. Just copy all the files from one server to another.

The underlying architecture of Flextype is built using well established and best-in-class technologies. This is to ensure that Flextype is simple to use and easy to extend.

REQUIREMENTS
------------

[](#requirements)

#### SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

[](#system-requirements)

Make sure your server meets the following requirements.

- Webserver (Apache, Nginx, etc.)
- PHP 8.1 or higher

#### PHP EXTENSIONS

[](#php-extensions)

Flextype needs the following PHP extensions to be enabled:

- PHP [mbstring](http://php.net/manual/en/book.mbstring.php) module for full UTF-8 support.
- PHP [gd](http://php.net/manual/en/book.image.php) or [ImageMagick](http://php.net/manual/en/book.imagick.php) module for image processing.
- PHP [json](https://php.net/manual/en/book.json.php) module for JSON manipulation.
- PHP [Fileinfo](https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.fileinfo.php)
- PHP [SPL](https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.spl.php)
- PHP [DOM](https://www.php.net/manual/ru/class.domdocument.php)

Although it is optional, we strongly recommend enabling the following PHP extensions: APC, APCu, XCache, Memcached, or Redis for better performance.

QUICK INSTALLATION
------------------

[](#quick-installation)

1. [Download the latest version of Flextype](https://awilum.github.io/flextype/downloads/).
2. Unzip the contents to a new folder on your local computer, and upload to your webhost using the (S)FTP client of your choice. After you’ve done this, create directory `project` and be sure to chmod the following directory to `755` (or `777`), so it is readable and writable by Flextype.

[read the documentation](https://awilum.github.io/flextype/documentation/)

COMMUNITY
---------

[](#community)

Flextype is open source, community driven project, and maintained by community!

#### [Github](https://github.com/flextype)

[](#github)

You may use GitHub Discussions to start discussion about core, plugin and themes development or If you want to report a bug, you can use the GitHub Issues.

#### [Twitter](https://twitter.com/_flextype)

[](#twitter)

Follow Flextype on Twitter to get real-time news regarding the development and all events we are attending.

SUPPORTING Flextype
-------------------

[](#supporting-flextype)

Flextype is an open source project and community contributions are essential to its growing and success.

Contributing to the Flextype is easy and you can give as little or as much time as you want.

### FINANCIAL SUPPORT

[](#financial-support)

Flextype is an MIT-licensed open source project and completely free to use.

However, the amount of effort needed to maintain and develop new features for the project is not sustainable without proper financial backing.

You can support it's ongoing development by being a project supporter:

- [Visit Supporters page](https://awilum.github.io/supporters/)

### PLATFORM CONTRIBUTIONS

[](#platform-contributions)

Another excellent way to help out is by contributing your time or services.

#### BUG REPORTING

[](#bug-reporting)

We are using GitHub Issues to manage our public bugs. We keep a close eye on this so before filing a new issue, try to make sure the problem does not already exist.

#### PULL REQUESTS

[](#pull-requests)

We actively welcome your pull requests!

If you need help with Git or our workflow, please ask in our community chat. We want your contributions even if you're just learning Git. Our maintainers are happy to help!

#### DOCS

[](#docs)

You may help us to create amazing knowledge base for Flextype. Fix spelling, add code examples, help organize, write new articles, and etc...

LICENSE
-------

[](#license)

[The MIT License (MIT)](https://github.com/flextype/flextype/blob/1.x/LICENSE.txt)Copyright (c) [Sergey Romanenko](https://awilum.github.io/)

###  Health Score

41

—

FairBetter than 87% of packages

Maintenance19

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity37

Limited adoption so far

Community27

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity71

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 99.6% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~40 days

Total

43

Last Release

1312d ago

Major Versions

0.9.x-dev → v1.0.0-alpha.12022-07-12

PHP version history (7 changes)v0.1.0PHP >=7.1.3

v0.9.4PHP >=7.2.0

v0.9.9PHP >=7.2.5

v0.9.10PHP >=7.3.0

v0.9.12PHP ^7.3 || ^8.0

v0.9.14PHP ^7.4 || ^8.0

v1.0.0-alpha.1PHP ^8.1

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/477114?v=4)[Sergey Romanenko](/maintainers/Awilum)[@Awilum](https://github.com/Awilum)

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Top Contributors

[![Awilum](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/477114?v=4)](https://github.com/Awilum "Awilum (5175 commits)")[![scrutinizer-auto-fixer](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6253494?v=4)](https://github.com/scrutinizer-auto-fixer "scrutinizer-auto-fixer (6 commits)")[![p810](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3998736?v=4)](https://github.com/p810 "p810 (4 commits)")[![Hmelex](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2684056?v=4)](https://github.com/Hmelex "Hmelex (3 commits)")[![rkrx](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5672982?v=4)](https://github.com/rkrx "rkrx (1 commits)")[![alexantr](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4941848?v=4)](https://github.com/alexantr "alexantr (1 commits)")[![wertelko](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/47179424?v=4)](https://github.com/wertelko "wertelko (1 commits)")[![kurtr](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1468721?v=4)](https://github.com/kurtr "kurtr (1 commits)")[![pascoaleti](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/37311636?v=4)](https://github.com/pascoaleti "pascoaleti (1 commits)")[![RDIL](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/34555510?v=4)](https://github.com/RDIL "RDIL (1 commits)")

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###  Code Quality

TestsPest

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Type Coverage Yes

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