README

Welcome to the RedKiteCms a Content Management System Application, built on top of Symfony2 and Twitter Bootstrap frameworks.

RedKiteCms is designed to provide an easy an intuitive user-interface, to improve the website's content management experience.

Requirements

• PHP 5.3+
• Symfony 2.3.*+
• Propel 1.6+

Install RedKiteCms

To install RedKiteCms you just need to download the RedKiteCms Sandbox and follow the intructions that comes with the sandbox itself.

If you want to install RedKiteCms for an existing application or from the scratch, just read the RedKiteCms install chapter

Start RedKiteCms

To browse your site, simply open a browser and point to http://localhost or whatever your domain is.

To work with RedKiteCms simply point to http://localhost/rkcms.php/backend/login

You may debug your application using the rkcms_dev.php environment: http://localhost/rkcms_dev.php/backend/login

The page is blank

If you encounter a blank web page, something went wrong. To understand what's appened, you could open the same page in the _dev environment or open the rkcms.php and change the following row from:

$kernel = new AppKernel('rkcms', false);

to

$kernel = new AppKernel('rkcms', true);

Documentation

You can read RedKiteCms official documentation at redkite-labs.com:

• The book
• The cookbook
• Developers guide

RedKiteCms documentation repository lives at github.

Support

If you require support you can ask for help at RedKiteCms users forum.

If you want to collaborate, just introduce yourself at RedKiteCms developers forum.

Stay in touch

RedKiteCms is present on major social networks:

Follow @redkitecms on Twitter for the latest news

Like RedKiteCms at Facebook

Connect with RedKiteCms at Google+

Notes for windows users

RedKiteCms has been written on a linux system machine, so you might encounter some small issues when you work on a windows machine:

• assetic:dump command might return an error
• Skin problems

None of those problems breaks the usability of RedKiteCms. If you are a windows user and you want to fix them on your own, fork the repository, do the fixes then ask for a pull request: it would be really appreciated! :)

Enjoy!