Substance is a Content Management System (CMS) and application framework. Substance is intended to be a standards based, object oriented application framework that happens to include a Web based CMS, both as example of what the framework can do and as a driver for the development of the framework.
The framework is based on carefully chosen standards (which ideally would not include PHP as a base!).
- PHP 5.3.7+ (except Redhat/CentOS where 5.3.3+)
- mb_string extension
- DOM/XML extension
- composer
We use composer (https://getcomposer.org) to manage our dependencies, so installation is pretty simple.
- Run
./bin/bootstrap.shto fetch composer and install the required dependencies.
We use Vagrant to allow us to easily check substance against our supported platforms. Currently, we have a single platform, Centos 6.5, Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.3. Install Vagrant and from the project root type:
vagrant up
to get you up and running. If you are running a system that already has Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.3, set up a virtual host with your document root pointing at the "public" folder.