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sydes/sydes
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SyDES - Lightweight CMF for a simple sites with SQLite database

3.0.0-b2(9y ago)7322[4 issues](https://github.com/sydes/sydes/issues)GPL-3.0+PHPPHP >=5.4.0

Since Jan 6Pushed 8y ago4 watchersCompare

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[SyDES](http://sydes.ru) - Lightweight CMF for a simple sites with SQLite database
==================================================================================

[](#sydes---lightweight-cmf-for-a-simple-sites-with-sqlite-database)

WIP
===

[](#wip)

```
This is early-dev version of 3.x branch
If you wanna production version, please check main repo https://github.com/artygrand/SyDES

```

Overview
--------

[](#overview)

SyDES is a free open source content management framework for small/medium sites with non-typical functionality and complex design. With iblocks you can put any dynamic or static content to any page that allows you to create any entity, such as a blog, catalog or even gallery. Multi-Site will allow to create network of satellites with any domain or language.

Main features
-------------

[](#main-features)

1. Fast and lightweight engine (only ???KB for engine + 3.55MB by ckeditor and ckfinder)
2. Support multi-language for site and admin center
3. Friendly and customizable interface with some magic and changeable skins
4. Easily expandable with modules, plugins, constructors and infoblocks
5. Uses a SQLite3 via PDO
6. Easy the development and integration of new templates, modules and plugins
7. User-friendly URLs, automatic robots.txt, sitemap.xml and rss

Install
-------

[](#install)

### Old-style

[](#old-style)

1. Download compiled archive from [last release](https://github.com/sydes/sydes/releases) and unzip in site root folder
2. Open this site in browser
3. Select your language from available
4. Enter login, password and e-mail
5. Create new site

### From console

[](#from-console)

1. `composer create-project --prefer-dist -sdev sydes/sydes`
2. `php sydes install`

System requirements
-------------------

[](#system-requirements)

Apache 2.2, PHP 5.4, PDO with sqlite driver, mod\_rewrite, JSON, url\_fopen or cURL, ZipArchive.

Upload [check.php](check.php) to the server to check the requirements

Third-party software
--------------------

[](#third-party-software)

- CKEditor + plugins
- CKFinder (DEMO)
- jQuery
- jQuery UI
- jquery nestedSortable
- Bootstrap
- Bootstrap datePicker

License
-------

[](#license)

The CMF SyDES is open-sourced software licensed under the [GPL v3](LICENSE) or any later version.

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 47% of packages

Maintenance9

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity14

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity62

Established project with proven stability

 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.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~30 days

Total

5

Last Release

3340d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/98ef4d3df61a629c18e5ed0b91a790ec2f1877649308913b2ef0e52f80da3987?d=identicon)[artygrand](/maintainers/artygrand)

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Top Contributors

[![artygrand](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2451297?v=4)](https://github.com/artygrand "artygrand (554 commits)")

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Tags

cmslightweightsqlite-databasesydessqlitesydescmscmf

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