Herbie

Create fully functional websites or blogs in no time and with little effort, using only text files. 👌

Herbie is a simple, modern, fast and highly customizable flat-file Content Management System (CMS) powered by PHP, Twig, Markdown, Textile, reStructuredText and other human-readable text files.

Supported PHP Versions

8.0 / 8.1 / 8.2 /8.3

Featuring

Herbie is powered by proven libraries:

• Markdown, reStructuredText and Textile for formatting page content
• Twig template engine for rendering layouts and extending core functionality
• Yaml and JSON for data structure files
• Composer and Packagist for dependency and plugin management

Thanks to its plugin system Herbie is highly customizable and brings support for:

• Application Middlewares
• Route Middlewares
• Event Listeners
• Twig Filters
• Twig Globals
• Twig Functions
• Twig Tests
• Console Commands

Herbie implements the following PHP standard recommendations:

• PSR-1 Basic Coding Standard
• PSR-3 Logger Interface
• PSR-4 Autoloading Standard
• PSR-7 HTTP Message Interface
• PSR-11 Container Interface
• PSR-12 Extended Coding Style
• PSR-14 Event Dispatcher
• PSR-15 HTTP Handlers
• PSR-16 Simple Cache
• PSR-17 HTTP Factories

Herbie is well tested:

• Unit Tests, Integration Tests and Acceptance Tests with Codeception
• Static Code Analysis with PHPStan
• Code Fixing with PHP Coding Standards Fixer