pixl-cms

A lightweight CMS API powered by Markdown and Nachos

Installation

Option 1 (recommended): Composer

The best way to add this to your project is by installing it through composer: composer require pixlmint/pixl-cms

Option 2

It's also possible to manually include the cms' source code in your project For that to work you'll still need to have composer working on your site. In your composer.json, under autoload > psr-4 add "PixlMint\\CMS\\": "path/to/cms/src" -The important part being the part before the colon, as otherwise the CMS code won't work

Once you're ready to get to work you'll have to execute composer dump-autoload

Finally (either way)

Then create a index.php file at the root of your website:

<?php

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use PixlMint\CMS\CmsCore;

CmsCore::init();

Here is a basic .htaccess configuration for hosting your site using Apache

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    # Allow access to these directories and specific files
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/media/.* [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/dist/.* [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/public/.* [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/backup/.* [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/favicon\.ico [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/robots\.txt [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/manifest\.webmanifest
    # If any of the above conditions are met, do nothing and exit
    RewriteRule ^ - [L]

    RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# Prevent file browsing
Options -Indexes -MultiViews

And that's it! You now have a powerful CMS API at your fingertips.

API Documentation

View the full API documentation here: PixlCms Documentation

Plugins

Plugins are a great way to extend the functionality of the base CMS to your specific needs.

First Party Plugins

pixl-wiki

PixlMint Wiki GitHub Page

pixl-journal

PixlMint Journal GitHub Page

pixl-media

A powerful Plugin that adds routes for media upload (images and videos) and automatically scales them

PixlMint Media Plugin GitHub Page

Configuration

name

The Name of the plugin. If install_method is set to sourcecode, this needs to be the folder name within the plugins directory.

*install_method

A string which defines the method in which the plugin was installed. The available options are:

• composer - If the plugin is installed as a composer plugin.
• sourcecode - The plugin is located in the /plugins directory.

enabled

Whether the plugin is enabled. Defaults to true. If it's set to false, the cms won't load anything from the plugin.

config

The Plugin configuration - the best practice is to just require_once the plugins config.php file.

Example Configuration

...
[
    'name' => 'pixlcms-journal-plugin',
    'install_method' => 'composer',
    'enabled' => true,
    'config' => require_once('vendor/pixlmint/pixlcms-journal-plugin/config/config.php'),
]
...

Plugin Development

The best way to start developing plugins is to take a look at one of my first-party plugins.

CMS Configuration

Since PixlCMS is built with the Nacho Framework so for full configuration info look at the Nacho Wiki

Setting a custom Frontend Controller

The Frontend Controller is the Controller that handles all routes that don't point to an actual file (like an image/ video), and that don't start with /api.

• Type: string
• Default: None
• Config: base > frontendController

Enable debug mode

Debug mode makes it easier to develop plugins by printing out full PHP errors

• Type: boolean
• Default: false
• config: base > debugEnabled