Basic App is a free, open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the CodeIgniter 4 PHP Framework.
Basic App is designed to provide a quick start for sites made on CodeIgniter 4 and to take over the implementation of the basic functions of a modern web application.
- CRUD
- Themes
- Internationalization
- Backend area (auth, main menu, options menu, tables, forms)
- Bootstrap 4 (by getbootstrap.com)
- Cool Admin (by colorlib.com)
- Clean Blog (by startbootstrap.com)
- TinyMCE (by www.tiny.cloud)
- CodeMirror (by codemirror.net)
Create a new application using Composer:
composer create-project --stability=dev --keep-vcs --prefer-dist basic-app/basic-app demoapp
The command installs the application in a directory named demoapp
. You can choose a different directory name if you want.
Configure application settings (base url, timezone, database) in the /.env
file.
Execute commands via shell:
php spark migrate -all
php spark ba:update
php spark ba:seed
php spark publish
Run local development server
php spark serve
Or set document root to /public
directory.
Access backend by opening http://localhost:8080/admin
in a browser.
login: admin
password: admin
- Execute command:
php spark hash-admin-password YOUR_PASSWORD
- Store result hash string to .evn file in admin.passwordHash section
- Database (MySQL or MariaDB)
- Composer
- Webserver (Apache or Nginx)
PHP version 7.2 or higher is required, with the following extensions installed:
Additionally, make sure that the following extensions are enabled in your PHP: