Spindle CMS

Spindle is a clean, developer-first CMS framework rebuilt from the architectural bones of OpenCart — but with the ecommerce layer surgically removed.
It’s what OpenCart might have become if it had focused on modular content management instead of checkout flows and product SKUs.

⌛ Lightweight. Familiar. No cart required.

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What Makes Spindle Different?

• No eCommerce bloat — no carts, no payments, no inventory logic
• Dynamic subdomain routing — serve multi-site content from folders
• Shared folders and models — Use a shared folder for subdomains and other content
• Familiar MVC structure — but focused purely on content-first deployments
• No Composer required — works out-of-the-box without external dependencies
• Full codebase access — nothing obfuscated, everything hackable

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✨ Features

• Lightweight, override-friendly MVC architecture
• Secure directory separation (storage outside webroot)
• Modular extensions (/extensions/) without hard bindings
• Dynamic subdomain mapping (e.g. blog.example.com → /subDomains/blog/)
• Optional Composer support, bundled in storage/vendor/
• No JS frameworks, no React, no headless nonsense

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Installation

git clone https://github.com/RandomCoderTinker/Spindle.git

Set your document root to:

Spindle/public_html/

Ensure PHP 8.0+ is installed, and set write permissions on:

/storage/
/storage/logs/
/storage/cache/
/cdn/images/

You may optionally run:

composer install

…but it’s not required. All needed libraries are pre-bundled.

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Directory Layout

• public_html/ – public web root
• public_html/app – Main website
• public_html/cdn – CDN folder for faster load speeds (Set up with VHOST or cloudflare caching)
• public_html/data – Manifest data and images (if required)
• public_html/subDomains – folder-based routing for subdomains
• public_html/shared – Shared utilities (Models, Views, Controllers)
• public_html/system – All system components
• storage/ – configs, logs, cache (outside web root)

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Why Spindle?

"OpenCart Without the Cart."

Spindle was designed for devs who liked the simplicity of OpenCart's architecture… but hated all the ecommerce baggage. This is a toolkit for making dashboards, wikis, documentation hubs, and admin UIs — not stores.

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Roadmap

• Rewrite base routing and MVC to remove cart logic
• Subdomain-to-folder routing via .htaccess
• Directory security separation
• Everything else
• Example usages
• Future updates

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License

GPLv3 — free to use, fork, modify, and redistribute, would be MIT, but have to stick with opencart's license.

Spindle is yours now. Hack it.

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Credits

Originally based on OpenCart Refactored, rebuilt, and unshackled by @RandomCoderTinker

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Built with ❤️ using PHP 8.1+