PHP static site & blog generator with markdown support.
Using the power of laravel's Blade templating engine.
- PHP 5.5.9+ or newer
- Apache or Nginx server
- Composer
To install a fresh Katana installation you need to install composer & run the following command:
composer create-project themsaid/katana my-new-site
Once the installation is done you may build your website using the command:
php katana build
Katana is shipped with sample content to help you get started immediately, and after this command runs your site will be generated in the /public directory.
The complete Katana documentation can be found here: http://themsaid.github.io/katana/
Katana is shipped with a static blog generator, all you need to do is create a new .blade.php file in the /content/_blog directory and Katana
will compile all the posts and present them in a view of your choice.
Blog posts list is paginated based on the configuration options in config.php. There's also a $blogPosts variable available in all your blade
views that contains an array of posts.
Blade is a simple yet powerful templating engine built for laravel, you need to check Blade's documentation if you're not already familiar with it.
You can use Katana to publish a website over GitHub Pages using subtrees, the idea is to deploy the public directory as the master branch of your user GitHub pages repository or the gh-pages branch of your project repository.
You can find the full details in the documentation.
Contributions are welcomed in this repository https://github.com/themsaid/katana-core where all source files exist.