README

Obcato is an initiative to offer a simple, modular and multi-language web content management system. Obcato is open-source, and therefore free. The idea behind a web content management system is to facilitate the creation of a website with as little technical or programming knowledge as possible. Creation of a website using Obcato will involve the following activities:

Programming Smarty Templates according to the Obcato API's and configuring them in the Obcato WebUI.
Authoring articles, pages, images, etc. in the Obcato WebUI. Templates will be linked to these presentable elements and will be rendered as HTML.

Getting started

Obcato is written in PHP and runs on top of a Mysql Database. A hosting platform therefore requires at least a PHP runtime and a Mysql database.

When you look at the source of Obcato, it has 2 sections:

Installation

Make a new website

A new website that is based on Obcato starts with the creation of a new PHP packagist application. Make Obcato a dependency. It will be installed to the vendor section.

Upload Obcato

Upload your vendor folder to the private webspace of your webhosting. This includes Obcato sources.

Initialize the frontend and prepare the Obcato WebUI

In the public section (e.g. httpd.www) of your webspace, you will need to create one file to render the frontend and the Obcato WebUI:

index.php

namespace reisvirus\reisvirus;

define("PUBLIC_ROOT", __DIR__);
define("PRIVATE_ROOT", PUBLIC_ROOT . "/<RELATIVE_LOCATION_OF_PRIVATE_WEBSPACE>");
define("OBCATO_ROOT", PRIVATE_ROOT . "/vendor/obcato/obcato/src");

require_once OBCATO_ROOT . "/bootstrap.php";

Fill in <RELATIVE_LOCATION_OF_PRIVATE_WEBSPACE> as required.

Make a request from the browser to the root of your webspace, e.g. https://www.yourdomain.com. This will initialize a .htaccess file so that all routing works properly.

Frontend Templates

You can now start adding frontend templates to <PRIVATE_DIR>/templates

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