PHP static site & blog generator with markdown support.

Using the power of laravel's Blade templating engine.

Katana was inspired by Jigsaw by Adam Wathan and the folks at Tighten.

• PHP 5.5.9+ or newer
• Apache or Nginx server
• Composer

To install a fresh Katana installation you need to install composer & run the following command:

composer create-project themsaid/katana my-new-site

Once the installation is done you may build your website using the command:

php katana build

Katana is shipped with sample content to help you get started immediately, and after this command runs your site will be generated in the /public directory.

The complete Katana documentation can be found here: http://themsaid.github.io/katana/

Katana is shipped with a static blog generator, all you need to do is create a new .blade.php file in the /content/_blog directory and Katana will compile all the posts and present them in a view of your choice.

Blog posts list is paginated based on the configuration options in config.php. There's also a $blogPosts variable available in all your blade views that contains an array of posts.

Blade is a simple yet powerful templating engine built for laravel, you need to check Blade's documentation if you're not already familiar with it.

You can use Katana to publish a website over GitHub Pages using subtrees, the idea is to deploy the public directory as the master branch of your user GitHub pages repository or the gh-pages branch of your project repository.

You can find the full details in the documentation.

Contributions are welcomed in this repository https://github.com/themsaid/katana-core where all source files exist.