Lina PHP - lightweight and blazing fast static blog generator

Lina is an opinionated flat-file CMS for who want a simple and fast blog. Lina uses Blade template engine, so you can use all Blade features.

Features

• Blazing fast: Lina is a lightweight and superfast static blog generator.
• Written in PHP: so if you hate Javascript, Lina is for you.
• Blade template engine: you can use all Blade features.'
• Minimalistic: Lina is a static blog generator. It's not a full-fledged CMS.
• Deploy everywhere! You know, just html files 🤣

Requirements

• PHP 8.3

Getting started

There are some ways to install Lina:

Require Lina as dependency, with this option, you can keep lina up-to-date easily.

mkdir my-blog && cd my-blog && composer init --name=linaphp/blog --no-interaction --require=bangnokia/lina:^0.5 && composer install
./vendor/bin/lina new . # scaffolding a new blog skeleton in the current directory
./vendor/bin/lina serve # start a development server and happy writing

Or install Lina as global composer package

composer global require linaphp/lina
lina new my-blog
lina serve

Or you can use the phar file

curl -LO https://github.com/linaphp/lina/releases/latest/download/lina.phar && chmod +x lina.phar

Folder structure

In case you want to migrate from another blog platform, you can check the base structure of Lina

content/
    posts/
        2020-11-01-hello.md
    index.md
resources/
    views/
        index.blade.php
        post.blade.php
public/ 
    images/
    style.css

• content directory is where you store your markdown content file.
• resources/views directory is where you store your blade template.
• public directory is where you store your assets like images, css, ... This folder is also where all the generated files are stored. So please remember to add your custom files to .gitignore if you want to store them in git

We really recommend you to prefix your content file with the date, so it will easy to sort and find your content. Lina automatically strip the date from the slug, so you don't need to worry about the url.

Helper functions

There are some functions that you can use to programmatically access your content.

Get all content in a directory

Get all the content in a directory. The content will be sorted by the date in the filename.

foreach (lina()->index('post') as $post) {
    echo $post->title;
}

Get a single content

$post = lina()->get('posts/2020-11-01-hello.md');

Deployments

Lina can be deployed to any static hosting provider. Here are some examples: Github pages, Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare pages, ...

Deploy on Github pages

So you please modify the file .github/workflows/deploy.yml to match your demand.

Deploy on Cloudflare pages

We also provide a configuration file for Cloudflare pages. You can find it in cloudflare-page.sh. You can modify it to match your demand. Also you need to change the Build configuration like this.

Built with Lina

So, you know, at least that's me.

• daudau.cc: My personal blog. Source code.
• Lina's landing page: Lina's site (this site is built with Lina, of course). Source code.

TODO

• Add lina serve command for development
• Add code highlighter support
• Support live reloading
• Cloudflare pages support