Grav (CMS)

Last updated
Grav
Developer(s) Andy Miller, Djamil Legato, Matias Griese [1]
Initial release30 July 2014;10 years ago (30 July 2014) [2]
Stable release
1.7.48 [3] / 2024-10-28 [±]
Repository
Written in PHP
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Content management system
License MIT License
Website getgrav.org   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Grav is a free software, self-hosted content management system (CMS) written in the PHP programming language and based on the Symfony web application framework. It uses a flat file database for both backend and frontend.

Contents

Grav is designed to have a shallow learning curve, and to be easy to set up. The focus of Grav is speed and simplicity, rather than an abundance of built-in features that come at the expense of added complexity.

The name Grav is a shortened version of the word gravity. [4]

Grav is the most starred PHP CMS on GitHub, with over 14,565 stars. [5]

A lot of interesting articles about Grav CMS and its possibilities are available in the Czech language on the microsite Grav.cz (gravcz.github.io). [6]

Awards

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware</span> Content management software

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware or simply Tiki, originally known as TikiWiki, is a free and open source Wiki-based content management system and online office suite written primarily in PHP and distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL-2.1-only) license. In addition to enabling websites and portals on the internet and on intranets and extranets, Tiki contains a number of collaboration features allowing it to operate as a Geospatial Content Management System (GeoCMS) and Groupware web application.

The following tables compare general and technical information for many wiki software packages.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">DNN (software)</span>

DNN Platform is a web content management system and web application framework based on the .NET Framework. It is open source and part of the .Net Foundation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Markdown</span> Plain text markup language

Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 as an easy-to-read markup language. Markdown is widely used for blogging and instant messaging, and also used elsewhere in online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files.

This is a comparison of notable web frameworks, software used to build and deploy web applications.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">MODX</span>

MODX is an open source content management system and web application framework for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. MODX is licensed under the GPL, is written in the PHP programming language, and supports MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Server as the database. It was awarded Packt Publishing's Most Promising Open Source Content Management System in 2007.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Refinery CMS</span>

Refinery CMS, often shortened to Refinery, is a free and open-source content management system written in Ruby as a Ruby on Rails web application with jQuery used as the JavaScript library. Refinery CMS supports Rails 3.2 and Rails 4.2 and Rails 5.1.

ProcessWire is a free and open source content management system (CMS), content management framework (CMF) and web application framework (WAF) written in the PHP programming language. It is distributed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. ProcessWire is built around an API with usage and naming conventions similar to the JavaScript framework jQuery. The stated goal behind the API is to provide the level of accessibility and control to pages in a website that jQuery provides to the DOM. Content is managed either via the API or the web-based admin control panel. ProcessWire is largely used for development of web sites, web applications, services, content feeds and related applications.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">ImpressPages</span>

ImpressPages is an open-source PHP framework with built-in content editor. Features include MVC engine, inline editing and drag&drop interface. It is distributed under the GNU GPL v.3.0 and MIT licences.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">October (CMS)</span> Content management system

October is a self-hosted content management system (CMS) based on the PHP programming language and Laravel web application framework. It supports MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and SQL Server for the database back end and uses a flat file database for the front end structure. The October CMS covers a range of capabilities such as users, permissions, themes, and plugins, and is seen as a simpler alternative to WordPress.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">WebAssembly</span> Cross-platform assembly language and bytecode designed for execution in web browsers

WebAssembly (Wasm) defines a portable binary-code format and a corresponding text format for executable programs as well as software interfaces for facilitating communication between such programs and their host environment.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">GetSimple CMS</span>

GetSimple CMS is a free web Content Management System with the primary goal to be simple and easy to use. It is based on the programming language PHP and uses XML files to store the content. It is a flat file Content Management System, in contrast to other CMS software, that tend to use databases such as MySQL.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Backdrop CMS</span>

Backdrop CMS is an Open source, community-developed, content management system, written in PHP, and licensed under the GNU General Public License. Backdrop CMS was forked from the Drupal CMS in 2013 by two Drupal developers, Nate Lampton and Jen Lampton. Backdrop is very similar to version 7 of the Drupal CMS, maintaining most of the same functionality and features. The project's mission is to "enable people to build highly customized websites affordably, through collaboration and open source software".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pop PHP Framework</span> Free and open source PHP web framework

The Pop PHP Framework a free and open source PHP Web framework that was created by Nick Sagona. It is distributed under the BSD License and hosted on GitHub. The framework is intended to be utilized for rapid application development, with an emphasis on web applications.

Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. Steve Francia originally created Hugo as an open source project in 2013. Since v0.14 in 2015, Hugo has continued development under the lead of Bjørn Erik Pedersen with other contributors. Hugo is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Enonic XP</span>

Enonic XP is a free and open-source web application platform and content management system (CMS) in one based on Java and Elasticsearch. Developed by the Norwegian software company Enonic, the microservice web platform can be used to build progressive web applications, Next.js websites, or web-based APIs. Enonic XP uses an application framework for coding server logic with JavaScript, and has no need for SQL as it ships with an integrated content repository. The CMS is fully decoupled, meaning developers can create traditional websites and landing pages, or use XP in headless mode, that is without the presentation layer, for loading editorial content onto any device or client. Enonic is used by major organizations in Norway, including the national postal service Norway Post, the insurance company Gjensidige, the national lottery Norsk Tipping, the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration, and all the top football clubs in the national football league for men, Eliteserien.

PHP-Fusion is a free and open-source web framework based on PHP and MySQL & MariaDB that has an integrated content management system (CMS) among many other features.

raylib Game programming library

Raylib is a cross-platform open-source software development library. The library was made to create graphical applications and games.

References

  1. "About Grav". getgrav.org. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  2. "Grav blog". getgrav.org. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  3. "Releases - getgrav/grav" . Retrieved 10 November 2024 via GitHub.
  4. "What is Grav?". getgrav.org. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
  5. "Most Starred PHP CMS projects on GitHub". GitHub . Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  6. "Articles | Grav.cz (gravcz.github.io)" . Retrieved 20 March 2024.
  7. "The Winner of Best Open Source CMS for 2016 is Grav". CMS Critic. 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
  8. 1 2 3 4 Critic, C. M. S. "CMS Critic Awards". CMS Critic. Retrieved 2024-05-31.