Villain is a PHP Content Management Framework (CMF) developed to be feature rich, high performance, and easy to extend.

To fetch and install Villain, do the following:

$ git clone git://github.com/Masterminds/Villain.git
$ cd Villain
$ ./fort --config config/install.php install

At this point, Villain/src will contain your new website.

Villain is a content management framework -- a tool designed to help PHP developers quickly build a CMS system individualized to their needs. It has been designed to be fast, scalable, and easy to extend.

Villain REQUIRES the following:

• PHP 5.3+
• PECL MongoDB driver (pecl install mongodb)
• A recent version of MongoDB

Villain SUGGESTS the following:

• phing
• PHPUnit
• doxygen 1.7.3+
• Apache 2+ with mod_php or another comparable webserver configuration

To build a CMS from Villain, you probably want to do the following:

• Install Villain
• Install whatever Bundles you need
• Beginning with src/config/commands.php, customize your site
• Develop your own bundles (try ./fort @create-bundle FOO to get started)
• Test and deploy.

• Bundle: Roughly speaking, bundles are "plugins" or "modules" for Villain. A bundle can provide commands, request implementations, assets like CSS, images, and JavaScript, and supporting files.
• Chain of Command: Villain maps a REQUEST to a CHAIN OF COMMANDS (and then maps URLs to requests). When Villain receives a request, it processes a series of commands in sequence. When you build your CMS with Villain, you will build your own chains.
• commands.php: The main configuration file for Villain. Among other things, it maps requests to chains of commands.
• fort: Fort is the command-line runner that Villain uses.
• Fortissimo: Villain is built on the Fortissimo framework. Fortissimo is a lightweight scalable PHP framework.
• Storable/Storage: Villain uses a very lightweight intermediate layer to translate objects into and out of MongoDB. The Storable system provides that translation system. See src/core/Villain/Storage.