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What Is Bootstrap CMS?

Bootstrap CMS is a PHP CMS powered by Laravel 4.1 and Sentry 2.1.

Bootstrap CMS was created by, and is maintained by Graham Campbell.
Bootstrap CMS relies on many of my packages including Laravel Core and Laravel Queuing.
Bootstrap CMS uses Travis CI with Coveralls to check everything is working.
Bootstrap CMS uses Scrutinizer CI and SensioLabsInsight to run additional checks.
Bootstrap CMS uses Composer to load and manage dependencies.
Bootstrap CMS provides a change log, releases, and api docs.
Bootstrap CMS is licensed under the GNU AGPLv3, available here.
Licenses for included components are available here, excluding Composer installed components.

System Requirements

Bootstrap CMS was designed to run on a Linux machine with PHP 5.5 and MySQL 5.5.

PHP 5.4.7+ or HHVM 2.4+ (HHVM support is incomplete mainly due to dependencies).
You will need Composer installed to load the dependencies of Bootstrap CMS.
You will need to configure the site in the app/config folder before production.
Some features require a cache server like Redis and a queuing server like Beanstalkd.

Installation

Please check the system requirements before installing Bootstrap CMS.

You may install by cloning from github, or via composer.

Github: git clone git@github.com:GrahamCampbell/Bootstrap-CMS.git
Composer: composer create-project graham-campbell/bootstrap-cms --prefer-dist -s dev

See the Laravel Queuing readme for extra requirements before continuing.
From a command line open in the folder, run composer install.
Enter your database details into app/config/databse.php.
Run php artisan app:install to setup and seed your database.
You will need to enter your mail server details into app/config/mail.php.

You can disable verification emails on registration in app/config/cms.php
Mail is still required for other functions like password resets
I'd recommend queuing email sending for greater performance (see below)

Finally, setup an Apache VirtualHost to point to the "public" folder.

For development, you can simply run php artisan serve

Additionally, you may to setup some of Bootstrap CMS's other features (see below).

Some things, like caching and queuing, are disabled out of the box
This is to allow Bootstrap CMS to work with minimal setup
Please note that queuing is required in order to use the cron functionality which can do things like notify users of upcoming events, or send out weekly activity digests
Also note, without caching asset generation will cause page load delay - to reduce this, I have turned off minification in app/config/packages/lightgear/asset/config.php by default

Setting Up Queuing

Bootstrap CMS provides queuing functionality, and when enabled, requires 3 separate queues.

One queue (the mail queue) will be used for sending emails
One queue (the cron queue) will be used for all cron jobs
One queue (the default queue) will be used for all other jobs
These queues must be separate to avoid unexpected functionality

Note that beanstalkd requires a local server, while sqs and iron are cloud based. Also note that sqs support is not 100% complete and is mainly untested.

Choose your poison - I'd recommend IronMQ.
Enter your queuing server details into app/config/queue.php.
You can also set a separate mail queue in app/config/mail.php.
For IronMQ, you can run the command php artisan queue:iron, and the php artisan cron:start.
You can find out more about queuing by heading over to the Laravel Docs.

Setting Up Caching

Bootstrap CMS provides caching functionality, and when enabled, requires a caching server. Note that caching will not work with Laravel's file or database cache drivers.

Choose your poison - I'd recommend Redis.
Enter your cache server details into app/config/cache.php.
You will probably want to enabled minification in app/config/packages/lightgear/asset/config.php.
Setting the driver to array will effectively disable caching if you don't want the overhead.

Setting Up Analytics

Bootstrap CMS natively supports Google Analytics (other services to come later).

Setup a web property on Google Analytics.
Enter your tracking id into app/config/analytics.php.
Enable Google Analytics in app/config/analytics.php.

Setting Up Themes

Bootstrap CMS also ships with 14 themes, 12 from Bootswatch.

You can set your theme in app/config/theme.php.
You can also set your nav bar style in app/config/theme.php.
After making theme changes, you will have to run php artisan app:update.

Usage

There is currently no usage documentation besides the API Documentation for Bootstrap CMS.

Updating Your Fork

Before submitting a pull request, you should ensure that your fork is up to date.

You may fork Bootstrap CMS:

git remote add upstream git://github.com/GrahamCampbell/Bootstrap-CMS.git

The first command is only necessary the first time. If you have issues merging, you will need to get a merge tool such as P4Merge.

You can then update the branch:

git pull --rebase upstream master
git push --force origin <branch_name>

Once it is set up, run git mergetool. Once all conflicts are fixed, run git rebase --continue, and git push --force origin <branch_name>.

Pull Requests

Please review these guidelines before submitting any pull requests.

When submitting bug fixes, check if a maintenance branch exists for an older series, then pull against that older branch if the bug is present in it.
Before sending a pull request for a new feature, you should first create an issue with [Proposal] in the title.
Please follow the PSR-2 Coding Style and PHP-FIG Naming Conventions.

License

GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.