TYPEMILL is a lightweight flat file cms for micro-publishers. You can use it for documentations, manuals, special interest websites, and any other information-driven web-project. You can also enhance Typemill with plugins and generate professional e-books in pdf-format with it. The website http://typemill.net runs with Typemill.

Typemill V2

This is the repository of Typemill V1. Typemill is compatible with PHP 7.4 and PHP 8.0.

We are working on a version 2 that will run with PHP 8.0 and higher. Alpha-release is planned for July 2023.

Join the newsletter to get updates and check the branch tm2-dev if you want to help and contribute.

Features

• Website with markdown-files.
• Visual markdown editor (VUE.js) and raw markdown mode.
• Flexible drag & drop navigation.
• Markdown extras with table of contents (TOC), tables, footnotes, abbreviations, definition lists, notices, figures with captions
• Media library with images and files.
• System configurations.
• User management.
• Flexible form management with YAML-files.
• Flexible access rights.
• Themes (with TWIG).
• Plugins (with symfony event dispatcher).

Requirements

• PHP 7.4 or PHP 8.0 (Typemill V1 does NOT run with PHP 8.1)
• Apache server
• mod_rewrite and htaccess

If you run a linux system, then please double check that mod_rewrite and htaccess are active!!!

Installation

ZIP-Version

Download TYPEMILL from the TYPEMILL website, unzip the files and you are done.

The zipped version has a minimal size without developer files.

GitHub + Composer

If you are a developer, you can clone this repository. To do so, open your command line, go to your project folder (e.g. htdocs) and type:

git clone git://github.com/typemill/typemill.git

The GitHub-version has no vendor-folder, so you have to update and include all libraries and dependencies with composer. To do so, open your command line, go to your TYPEMILL folder and type:

composer update

If you did not use composer before, please go to the composer website and start to learn.

Run Live

To run TYPEMILL on a live system, simply upload the files to your server.

Make Folders Writable.

Make sure that the following folders and all their files are writable (permission 774 recursively):

• cache
• content
• media
• settings

You can use your ftp-software for that.

Setup

If you visit your website first, then you will be redirected to the /setup page. Please create an initial user and configure your system in the author panel.

Login

You can find your login screen under /tm/login or simply go to /setup and you wi