Create small but fully functional websites or blogs in no time and with little effort 👌

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.

Herbie is powered by proven libraries:

• Markdown, reStructuredText and Textile for formatting page content
• Twig template engine for rendering layouts and extending the core
• 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 and Route Middlewares
• Event Listeners
• Twig Filters, Twig Globals, Twig Functions and Twig Tests
• Symfony 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 Diser
• PSR-15 HTTP Handlers
• PSR-16 Simple Cache
• PSR-17 HTTP Factories

Herbie is well tested:

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

8.0 / 8.1 / 8.2 / 8.3

The easiest way to install Herbie is through Composer. Run the following commands in your terminal to create a new project and install all dependent libraries.

composer create-project getherbie/start-website mywebsite

Change to the mywebsite/web directory.

cd mywebsite/web

Start the built-in webserver.

php -S localhost:8888 index.php

Open http://localhost:8888 with your browser. You should see your first Herbie website.

Create website and install dependencies.

docker run --rm -v $PWD:/app composer create-project --ignore-platform-reqs getherbie/start-website mywebsite

Change to the mywebsite directory and start website.

cd mywebsite
docker compose up website

Open http://localhost:8888 with your browser.

If you need a development environment, you can follow these steps.

Clone the repository.

git clone https://.com/getherbie/herbie.git

Change to the herbie directory.

cd herbie

Install Composer dependencies.

composer install

Change to the website/web directory.

cd website/web/

Start PHP's internal web server.

php -S localhost:8888 index.php

Open localhost:8888 with your favorite web browser.

If you want to have additional console output or logging information, set the debug environment variable.

HERBIE_DEBUG=1 php -S localhost:8888 index.php

If you want to use Xdebug (3.x), start the internal web server as follows. Hint: For this to work, Xdebug must of course be installed.

XDEBUG_MODE=debug php -S localhost:8888 index.php

Clone the repository.

git clone https://.com/getherbie/herbie.git

Change to the herbie directory.

cd herbie

Start PHP's built-in web server and launch website.

docker compose up website

Open localhost:8888 with your favorite web browser.

Other Docker Compose commands are

# install Composer dependencies
docker compose run install

# run test suite
docker compose run test

# start test suite website
docker compose up test-website

# run bash terminal
docker compose run bash

You can use different PHP versions.

PHP_VERSION=8.0 docker compose up website
PHP_VERSION=8.1 docker compose up website
PHP_VERSION=8.2 docker compose up website
PHP_VERSION=8.3 docker compose up website

# run tests
php vendor/bin/codecept run

# run unit tests
php vendor/bin/codecept run unit

# run integration tests
php vendor/bin/codecept run integration

# run acceptance tests
php vendor/bin/codecept run acceptance

# run tests with Code Coverage
XDEBUG_MODE=coverage php vendor/bin/codecept run --coverage --coverage-xml --coverage-html

Open the container shell

docker compose run bash

Run tests within the container

# run tests
php vendor/bin/codecept run

# run unit tests
php vendor/bin/codecept run unit

# run integration tests
php vendor/bin/codecept run integration

# run acceptance tests
php vendor/bin/codecept run acceptance

# run tests with Code Coverage
XDEBUG_MODE=coverage php vendor/bin/codecept run --coverage --coverage-xml --coverage-html

For more information, see https://herbie.tebe.ch.