marks-software-gmbh / yab-cms-ff

v5.4.5 2026-10-21 18:41 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.2
• ext-curl: *
• ext-dom: *
• ext-ftp: *
• ext-gd: *
• ext-iconv: *
• ext-imagick: *
• ext-intl: *
• ext-json: *
• ext-libxml: *
• ext-mbstring: *
• ext-pdo: *
• ext-pdo_sqlite: *
• ext-simplexml: *
• ext-soap: *
• ext-zip: *
• almasaeed2010/adminlte: ^3.2
• cakephp/authentication: ^4.2
• cakephp/authorization: ^3.0
• cakephp/cakephp: 5.4.*
• cakephp/migrations: ^5.0
• cakephp/plugin-installer: ^2.0
• dereuromark/cakephp-tinyauth: ^4.1
• firebase/php-jwt: ^7.2
• friendsofcake/bootstrap-ui: ^5.2
• friendsofcake/cakephp-csvview: ^5.1
• friendsofcake/crud: ^7.2
• friendsofcake/search: ^7.9
• intervention/image: ^4.4
• mobiledetect/mobiledetectlib: ^4.11
• phpoffice/phpspreadsheet: ^2.4.8
• phpoffice/phpword: ^1.4

Requires (Dev)

• cakephp/bake: ^3.6
• cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer: ^5.3
• cakephp/debug_kit: ^5.2
• josegonzalez/dotenv: ^4.0
• phpunit/phpunit: ^11.5.3 || ^12.1.3 || ^13.0

Suggests

• cakephp/repl: Console tools for a REPL interface for CakePHP applications.
• dereuromark/cakephp-ide-helper: After baking your code, this keeps your annotations in sync with the code evolving from there on for maximum IDE and PHPStan/Psalm compatibility.
• markstory/asset_compress: An asset compression plugin which provides file concatenation and a flexible filter system for preprocessing and minification.
• phpstan/phpstan: PHPStan focuses on finding errors in your code without actually running it. It catches whole classes of bugs even before you write tests for the code.

MIT

• Marks Software GmbH - Lukas Marks

• rest
• api
• bootstrap
• cms
• sqlite
• cakephp
• eav
• AdminLTE
• content-management
• php8
• cakephp5

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-10-21 18:45 UTC

README

"Yet Another Boring" CMS – Fast Forward (YAB CMS) is a free, open source, bootstrap content management system for PHP 8 based on CakePHP 5, CakePHP vendor plugins, the AdminLTE bootstrap admin dashboard template and released under the MIT License.

It is powered by the CakePHP 5 PHP framework.

Requirements

• Apache with mod_rewrite, intl, imagick OR nginx server
• PHP 8.2 or higher
• Latest MySQL or MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite or SQL-Server database engines

Installation

1. Download Composer or update composer self-update.
2. Run php composer.phar create-project --prefer-dist marks-software-gmbh/yab-cms-ff [app_name].

If Composer is installed globally, run

composer create-project --prefer-dist marks-software-gmbh/yab-cms-ff

In case you want to use a custom app dir name (e.g. /myapp/):

composer create-project --prefer-dist marks-software-gmbh/yab-cms-ff my-yab-cms

Then configure your database in config/app_local.php or use the default Sqlite Setup and visit the site.

Default login: Admin / superadmin (change immediately).

Important: Change the default credentials immediately after the first login.

Installation using GitHub Clone

Alternative: Installation using GitHub Clone

https://github.com/MarksSoftwareGmbH/YAB-CMS-FF.git

or by using GitHub CLI

gh repo clone MarksSoftwareGmbH/YAB-CMS-FF

When the cloning is finished please enter the cloned project and run

composer update

When the composer update is finished

• Upload the project content into a server htdocs TLD folder.
• Create a new MySQL or MariaDB database (with the utf8mb4_unicode_ci collation).
• Create a new user, set the password and grant the rights for the created database.
• Update the file /config/app_local.php Datasources array with the database, username and password for the default, test_mysql, development and production configurations.
• Update the file /config/app_local.php EmailTransport array with a default email server configuration (SMTP or Mail transport).
• Visit http://your-site.com/ from your browser.
• Visit http://your-site.com/login to login as Admin, the default username: Admin and password: superadmin (Please change this credentials to your needs).
• Visit http://your-site.com/admin/dashboard to manage the backend as Admin.

Installation using the ZIP Archive

• Download and extract the ZIP-file.
• Run composer update
• Upload the unzipped archive content into a server htdocs TLD folder.
• Create a new MySQL or MariaDB database (with the utf8mb4_unicode_ci collation).
• Create a new user, set the password and grant the rights for the created database.
• Update the file /config/app_local.php Datasources array with the database, username and password for the default, test_mysql, development and production configurations.
• Update the file /config/app_local.php EmailTransport array with a default email server configuration (SMTP or Mail transport).
• Visit http://your-site.com/ from your browser.
• Visit http://your-site.com/login to login as Admin, the default username: Admin and password: superadmin (Please change this credentials to your needs).
• Visit http://your-site.com/admin/dashboard to manage the backend as Admin.

Vendor plugins

• CakePHP - Application Skeleton: cakephp/app
• CakePHP - Authentication: cakephp/authentication
• Mark Scherer - TinyAuth Plugin: dereuromark/cakephp-tinyauth
• PHP - JWT: firebase/php-jwt
• Friends Of Cake - Bootstrap UI: friendsofcake/bootstrap-ui
• Friends Of Cake - CsvView Plugin: friendsofcake/cakephp-csvview
• Friends Of Cake - CRUD Plugin: friendsofcake/crud
• Friends Of Cake - Search Plugin: friendsofcake/search
• Intervention - PHP Image Processing: intervention/image
• PHPOffice - PhpSpreadsheet: phpoffice/phpspreadsheet
• PHPOffice - PhpWord: phpoffice/phpword
• Colorlib (Aigars Silkalns) - AdminLTE: almasaeed2010/adminlte

Suggested vendor plugins you should install via composer

• Mark Story - Asset Compress: markstory/asset_compress
• Mark Scherer - CakePHP IdeHelper Plugin: dereuromark/cakephp-ide-helper
• PHPStan - PHP Static Analysis Tool: phpstan/phpstan

Front- and Backend template

• Colorlib (Aigars Silkalns) - AdminLTE Bootstrap Admin Dashboard Template https://github.com/ColorlibHQ/AdminLTE

Links

• Marks Software GmbH website: https://www.marks-software.de
• Marks Software GmbH on X: https://x.com/SoftwareMarks