💋Kiss

What is Kiss?

Kiss is a static site generator written in PHP. It features a simple yet flexible routing system, supports YAML, JSON, PHP, XML, INI and MD as data sources, and uses Twig as its templating engine.

Quick start

composer global require amund/kiss-php
kiss init my-site
cd my-site
kiss build

Features

• Easy installation - Composer (1 line) or Phar (1 file)
• No database - Everything is stored in flat files, easy to git
• Multi-source - Supports YAML/JSON/PHP/XML/INI/MD as data sources
• Static/Dynamic - The generated site is static, but the PHP data sources can be dynamic
• High-performance - All data is read and processed in PHP to be cached
• Fast-Cache - By default, the system cache directory is used; if it is tmpfs in RAM, performance is affected
• Twig - No surprises here—there must be very few PHP developers who have never touched a Twig file

Workflow

graph TD
    A[kiss.yml] --> B[Config]
    B --> C[Build]
    C --> D[copy dir]
    D --> I[Static files]
    C --> E[route dir]
    E --> F[items + data]
    F --> G[Twig render]
    G --> H[HTML pages]
    H --> J[Route manifest]
    J --> K[Clean stale files]

License

MIT