Scriptor is a lightweight and versatile CMS for creating microsites, blogs, or wikis. Version 2 is a ground-up rewrite on top of iManager 2, SQLite and PSR-standards (PSR-3, -14, -16).

Demo: https://demos.scriptor-cms.dev

• SQLite storage with JSON columns and FTS5 full-text search.
• Composer-based install on top of bigins/imanager:^2.0.
• PSR-14 domain events drive cache invalidation and file cleanup.
• FilePond uploads with on-demand thumbnail generation through intervention/image.
• Per-image titles as a typed files.title column with markdown caption rendering on the frontend.
• Single-entry routing (public/index.php delegates /<admin_path>/* to editor/index.php in PHP). Works on Apache, Caddy, Nginx, php-S without per-server rewrite rules.
• public/ webroot: source code, the SQLite DB, configs and composer artifacts live OUTSIDE the webroot, so a misconfigured web server cannot expose them.

• PHP 8.2+ (8.3 recommended)
• Composer 2
• SQLite 3.38+ (for json_extract, FTS5)
• Standard PHP extensions: mbstring, dom, json, gd, pdo_sqlite
• A web server with its document root pointed at public/ and unknown paths routed to public/index.php. Apache (public/.htaccess is shipped), Caddy, Nginx, or PHP's built-in server all work.

git clone git@github.com:bigin/Scriptor.git
cd Scriptor
composer install

Point your web server at the public/ directory. The installer creates data/imanager.db on the first request via the schema-migrate step. To run migrations explicitly:

vendor/bin/imanager schema:migrate --db=data/imanager.db

For PHP's built-in server during local development:

php -S 127.0.0.1:8080 -t public public/index.php

For shared hosting where the webroot is fixed (e.g. public_html/), see docs/install-shared-hosting.md.

A bundled demo stack starts Scriptor 2.0 on http://localhost:8080 with one admin user (admin / gT5nLazzyBob) and one example page:

docker compose up -d --build

See docs/demo.md for what the seed creates, how to reset to factory state, and what the image is (and isn't) good for.

https://your-website.com/editor/

Default credentials (change them on first login):

User: admin
Password: gT5nLazzyBob

bin/perf-smoke.php runs four canonical timing checkpoints against the live SQLite database. The budgets (printed in brackets next to each result) are getItem < 1 ms, getItems(20) < 50 ms, FTS search < 100 ms. Typical results on the bundled demo data:

items()->find(1)                       0.009 ms  [budget   1.0 ms] OK
findByCategory(pages, 0, 20)           0.025 ms  [budget  50.0 ms] OK
FullTextSearch::search("scriptor")     0.037 ms  [budget 100.0 ms] OK
FullTextSearch::count("scriptor")      0.009 ms  [budget 100.0 ms] OK

Run it yourself: php bin/perf-smoke.php.

The iManager 2.0 CLI ships a one-shot migrator that reads the legacy data/datasets/buffers/ files into the new SQLite schema and copies uploads to the post-migration layout:

# Backup first
cp -a data data.bak.$(date +%F)

# Dry-run
vendor/bin/imanager migrate:from-v1 \
  --source data \
  --target /tmp/imanager-test.db \
  --dry-run

# Real migration
vendor/bin/imanager migrate:from-v1 \
  --source data \
  --target data/imanager.db

After the migration finishes you can delete the data/datasets/buffers/ directory. The original 1.x uploads stay in data/uploads/ (untouched); the migrator copies them into public/uploads/ for the 2.0 file storage. data/uploads/ is safe to remove once you've verified the migration on the live site.

public/                      THE WEBROOT (everything below is web-reachable)
  index.php                  thin front controller
  .htaccess                  Apache fallback (dotfile-deny + front-controller)
  themes/<theme>/            static-only half of each theme (css, fonts, …)
  editor-assets/             editor's CSS, JS, fonts, filepond, images
  uploads/<itemId>/<…>       FilePond uploads, served directly
  favicon.ico                root-level copy for the browser's implicit fetch

boot/                        PSR-4 (Scriptor\Boot\): Frontend, Editor, Events
  Frontend/Site, Page, …     public site renderer + repos
  Editor/Editor, Router, …   admin shell + per-module wiring
  Events/                    domain-event listeners (cache, file cleanup)
  ImanagerBootstrap.php      DI container + service graph
boot.php                     bootstrap include (loaded by public/index.php)

themes/<theme>/              PHP source of each theme: _ext.php, lib/,
                             template.php, vendor/  (NEVER web-served)
modules/                     user-installable site modules
editor/                      admin entry + lang + PHP templates
  index.php                  delegated to from public/index.php
  lang/                      en_US.php, de_DE.php
  theme/                     template.php, header.php, summary.php

data/                        runtime state, NEVER web-served
  settings/                  scriptor-config.php, custom.scriptor-config.php
  imanager.db                SQLite database
  cache/sections/            FilesystemCache (page-level HTML)
  logs/, backups/

bin/                         CLI helpers (currently: perf-smoke.php)
docs/                        themes.md, install-shared-hosting.md, …

<?php

use Scriptor\Boot\App;
use Scriptor\Boot\Frontend\Site;

// Loads the autoloader, builds the iManager container on App::container(),
// and populates $config from data/settings/scriptor-config.php.
require __DIR__ . '/boot.php';

$site = new Site(App::container(), $config, __DIR__);

// Data access: read pages directly off the Pages category.
$home = $site->pages()->findHome();          // or ->findBySlug('contact')
echo $home->name;                            // page title
echo $home->content;                         // markdown source

// Theme rendering: resolves $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] to a Page and
// returns the same fragments the bundled themes' template.php consumes.
// Call from your own front controller.
$site->execute();
echo $site->render('content');               // page body, rendered + cached
echo $site->render('navigation');            // theme nav

See boot/Frontend/Site.php for the full set of services the bundled themes consume.

• iManager 2 framework: https://github.com/bigin/imanager
• Documentation: https://scriptor-cms.dev/documentation/
• Modules / extensions: https://scriptor-cms.dev/extensions/extensions-modules/
• Demo: https://demos.scriptor-cms.dev

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