Sihae

Sihae is a PHP 7.4+ blog engine built with Slim Framework and Doctrine ORM.

Features

• Publish blog posts
• Markdown formatting (CommonMark via league/commonmark)
• Syntax highlighting (via Prism.js)
• Tag posts and explore all posts by their tag(s)
• Archive list of all posts grouped by year

Requirements

• PHP 7.4+
• MySQL or SQLite

Setup

$ composer install
$ cp .env.example .env
# configure .env with database connection details
# create a database matching the "DB_NAME" in your .env
$ php vendor/bin/doctrine-migrations migrations:migrate

Deploying

$ git fetch
$ git rebase
$ composer install --no-dev --no-suggest --optimize-autoloader
$ php vendor/bin/doctrine-migrations migrations:migrate
$ rm data/cache/router.php

Configuration

All configuration is done in the .env file at the root of the project. It contains the following options:

• DB_DRIVER — choose which database to use, possible options are:
  • pdo_mysql to use MySQL
  • pdo_sqlite to use SQLite
• DB_PATH — the path to store the database; this must be an absolute path! This is only required if DB_DRIVER is set to pdo_sqlite.
• DB_HOST — the host to connect to the database on. This is only required if DB_DRIVER is set to pdo_mysql
• DB_PORT — the port to use when connecting to the database host. This is only used if DB_DRIVER is set to pdo_mysql and the default MySQL port (3306) will be used if this is omitted
• DB_NAME — the name of the database to use. This is only required if DB_DRIVER is set to pdo_mysql
• DB_USER — the user to connect to the database with. This is only required if DB_DRIVER is set to pdo_mysql
• DB_PASSWORD — the password to use for the DB_USER. This is only required if DB_DRIVER is set to pdo_mysql
• APPLICATION_ENV — the environment the application is running in. Locally this should be development and should be production when deployed
• SIHAE_TITLE — the title of your blog
• SIHAE_SUMMARY — the summary (line below the title) of your blog
• ENABLE_REGISTRATION — whether to allow users to be registered. This should be turned off after the you have registered your initial user

Custom Themes

Creating a custom theme is super easy; Sihae will try to load template files from templates/theme before falling back to the root of templates. This means you can replace any template by creating a file with the same name inside templates/theme. For example, you can create a custom 404 page by creating templates/theme/404.phtml.

The templates/theme directory is ignored by git in the Sihae repository so it won't be overwritten in future versions.

Be sure to read the Plates documentation for details on how to create templates.

If you need to include images, CSS or JavaScript in your theme, there is a public/theme directory to store any assets your theme requires. This is also ignored by git.