Sculpin

Chris Tankersley

NomadPHP November 2014

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Who Am I?

● A PHP Developer for 10 Years● Lots of projects no one uses, and a

few some do● https://github.com/dragonmantank

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What is Sculpin?

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Static Site Generator

Sculpin is a static site generator written in PHP. It converts Markdown files, Twig

templates or standard HTML into a static HTML site that can be easily deployed.

@beausimensen

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In Short...

Turns a collection of static files into a dynamically generated site

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Other systems

● Jekyll● Octopress● Pelican● Phrozen● PieCrust

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Why?

● Not everything requires PHP● Static sites are quick● Lets you use existing tools

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The Guts

● A bit of symfony● Embedded Composer● React● Twig

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What's it look like?

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index.md

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Generate and check

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Let's throw in some templates

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Create a Twig template

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Tell our index.md about it

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Generate the site!

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Add some posts

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Tell Sculpin about the posts

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Tell our index.md about them

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Create a post

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Generate the site

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Deployment

● Copy everything in output_(dev|prod) to your live environment– FTP, rsync, whatever

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More Info

● https://sculpin.io/● https://github.com/sculpin/sculpin● @getsculpin

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Thanks!

● https://joind.in/128006● @dragonmantank● chris@ctankersley.com