lynx.io

The source code for the lynx.io website.

Installation

To install the lynx.io site locally, create config.php and install the dependencies using composer by running the following commands:

cp config.sample.php config.php
curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
php composer.phar install

Then adjust config.php as necessary.

Sending an article to lynx.io

Articles are written in MarkDown, and use the following syntax:

<info>
title: Article title
author: username
date: %date%
tags: seperated, by, commas
summary: Summary of article
</info>

Article text here.

Some points and guidelines:

• The date should always be %date% - when your article is accepted, it will be automatically generated.
• Tags can contain spaces, and should be lowercase. Separate them by a comma and a space, like this: php, functions
• The summary should be either a summary or short excerpt from the first couple paragraphs of your article.
• The slug will be generated by the file name. Once the article has been accepted, this can not be changed (although the contents of the article can).
• Articles should be in good English. They can be any length, but they should contain enough information to make it useful.
• You should not use first-level headings - the article title will be a first level heading.
• Check out previous articles to see how to format your articles.
• Images should be no more than 1000px wide (although try to make them smaller). Use the {{ articleimage }} variable, which points to /assets/imgs/article-slug/ (put your images in there).
• Images should not be hosted externally.
• IF YOU SEND ME AN ARTICLE WITH WINDOWS LINE ENDINGS AND I DON'T NOTICE, IT WILL BREAK THE SITE - PLEASE USE UNIX (\r\n) LINE ENDINGS!

If this is your first article, then you will need to add yourself as an author. Choose your username carefully (it cannot be changed), and then create authors/username.json containing the following:

{
	"username": "username",
	"name": "Full Name",
	"email": "email@example.com",
	"website": "http://example.com/",
	"description": "Short bio"
}

Anything but your username can be changed at any point in the future by sending a pull request.