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Draft

Draft is a PHP static site creator written in Driftphp. This is running my personal blog https://developernaren.com

Ugh!? Another static site generator!? why?? and that in PHP??

I have been working in PHP for more than 10 years. I have worked with nodejs and golang in few of those years. I always felt like PHP was put down as a starter language which people learn to get into programming. After few years in PHP, people would be pressured intto learning a "better" language. Even though I worked with nodejs and golang, PHP always felt the most comfortable to me. When I heard about reactphp, I wanted to get into it as soon as I could, but there were no starter template of sorts to get started. With Driftphp, I felt there finally is a framework that I can comfortably start working with it.

Enough complaining! Tell me how it works.

Alright, Alright. Draft is a static site generator. It can parse .html and .md files and generate a fully html page. It supports html layouts and content can be either html and md files.

<draft>

We include meta for post in a <draft> tag. Currently it supports

  • layout

  • title

  • description

    Example

    <draft>
    title: This is a ttest
    description: This is the description
    layout: blog.html
</draft>

Refer to this file for example

Todos

  • Refactor to make it adaptable
  • Tests
  • Cache Support
  • Build process to generate static html pages
  • Configurable
    • Options
      • Base Route
      • Layout path
      • Cache Path and driver
      • Better Seo support
      • Hot reload for md changes

I feel like there is only so much a static site generator should be able to do, but feel free to add things you would like to see here.