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fuzzy76/sire
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A databaseless site rendering engine

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Sire - A databaseless site rendering engine
===========================================

[](#sire---a-databaseless-site-rendering-engine)

A small webapp in PHP for rendering a site from a backend of pages.

First version supports pages as markdown/commonmark and Git backend through [Plates](http://platesphp.com) templates.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

### Requirements

[](#requirements)

- [Composer](https://getcomposer.org)
- git command available from PHP
- PHP 5.4

### Composer packages in use

[](#composer-packages-in-use)

- [Plates](http://platesphp.com)
- [gitElephant](https://github.com/matteosister/GitElephant)
- [CommonMark](http://commonmark.thephpleague.com)

### How to

[](#how-to)

1. `composer create-project --stability dev fuzzy76/sire`
2. Copy config.default.php to config.php and edit the contents to suit your site.
3. Create a folder data/backend which PHP has write permissions for, and check out your backend inside (automated soon!).

Optionally add  as a webhook to your Git provider. You can run directly from source with `php -S localhost:8000 index.php`

Roadmap
-------

[](#roadmap)

### v1.0

[](#v10)

- Create homepage for Sire, with Sire.
- Real documentation?
- Use template engine for error pages
- Fix initial cloning for git backend
- Changeable themes
- Add license file (BSD 2-clause)
- Use an open source router implementation (like [Aria.Router](http://auraphp.com/packages/Aura.Router/)).

### v1.1 (or later)

[](#v11-or-later)

- Page metadata header (title etc) for markdown.
- Support edit-links to repository provider (autodetect GitHub / BitBucket GIT repositories).
- Figure out a way to serve static files directly through .htaccess (atleast for some backends)
- Support more backends (Local directory and Evernote are both high on the list).
- Support more filetypes (textile, html, txt, source code, etc).
- Implement some special pages (all pages, etc).
- Implement search (backend-specific implementation).
- Better configuration format (YML?)
- PHPUnit tests

###  Health Score

20

—

LowBetter than 14% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity4

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/78f0505cf0e4208fb4aa83716a07c307fa1ea9a77239132ebdae04d84477003c?d=identicon)[fuzzy76](/maintainers/fuzzy76)

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Top Contributors

[![fuzzy76](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/218995?v=4)](https://github.com/fuzzy76 "fuzzy76 (29 commits)")

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commonmarkgit-backendphpplate

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