Silk
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1 About Silk
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A PHP5 web framework, extracted from CMS Made Simple 2.0.

SEE: http://blog.cmsmadesimple.org/2008/12/31/announcing-the-silk-framework/
COMING SOON: http://www.silkframework.com

2 Getting Started
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Instructions for installing Silk via git, with or without giternal.


2.1 Giternal
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1. Install giternal.  If you want to do git externals the old fashioned way,
that's up to you, you'll find instructions below.  I'm lazy, so I use this.  :)

2. Create a new directory to house your web app.

3. Create a config/giternal.yml.  Make it's contents something like this...

silk:
    repo: git://github.com/tedkulp/silk.git
    path: lib

4. Pull down the silk repo master branch directly from github.
Run: giternal update

5. Change directories to the 'shell_tools' directory. 
Run: cd shell_tools

6. Install a typical directory structure for an application. Try sh autogen.sh --help for more info.
Run: sh autogen.sh  OR (if this doesn't work) Ensure autogen.sh has execute permissions (chmod a+x autogen.s

7. Start developing!

8. To update silk to the latest version just
Run: giternal update


2.2 Git without Giternal
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If for some reason you can't (or won't) install giternal, you can always use ordinary git commands.

1. Create a new directory to house your web app.

2. Create the git repository in lib/silk
Run: git clone git://github.com/tedkulp/silk.git lib/silk

3. Change directories to the 'shell_tools' directory. 
Run: cd shell_tools

4. Install a typical directory structure for an application. Try sh autogen.sh --help for more info.
Run: sh autogen.sh  OR (if this doesn't work) Ensure autogen.sh has execute permissions (chmod a+x autogen.sh) and Run: ./autogen

5. Start Developing!

6. To update silk to the latest version, move to your silk directory then checkout the latest version
Run: cd lib/silk
Run: git pull


Enjoy!