# Basildon

PHP static site generator that makes YAML frontmatter queryable through SQLite from Twig templates.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/basildon/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-20
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-20

## Record

### Links

- home: https://basildon.samwilson.id.au
- repository: https://github.com/samwilson/basildon
- docs: https://basildon.samwilson.id.au

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Sam Wilson
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2020
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ssg
- hosting: static
- language: php
- runtime: php
- runtimeMin: php 8.2
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: flat-file
- databases: sqlite
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: twig
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: static
- renderingModes: static
- installMethod: composer create-project

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: GPL-3.0-or-later, GPL-3.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 9
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-13

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 13
- packagistDownloads: 227
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 1
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: 4
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 4
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- name: https://basildon.samwilson.id.au (read 2026-10-20)
- urls: https://basildon.samwilson.id.au (read 2026-10-20)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/samwilson/basildon (read 2026-10-20)
- urls: https://basildon.samwilson.id.au (read 2026-10-20)
- maintainer: https://api.github.com/users/samwilson (read 2026-10-20)
- category: https://basildon.samwilson.id.au (read 2026-10-20)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/samwilson/basildon (read 2026-10-20)
- runtime: https://api.github.com/repos/samwilson/basildon (read 2026-10-20)
- runtimeMin: https://basildon.samwilson.id.au (read 2026-10-20)
- installMethod: https://basildon.samwilson.id.au (read 2026-10-20)
- installMethod: https://basildon.samwilson.id.au (read 2026-10-20)
- contentStore: https://basildon.samwilson.id.au (read 2026-10-20)
- databases: https://basildon.samwilson.id.au (read 2026-10-20)
- templating: https://basildon.samwilson.id.au (read 2026-10-20)
- renderingModes: https://basildon.samwilson.id.au (read 2026-10-20)
- runsAs: https://basildon.samwilson.id.au (read 2026-10-20)
- license: https://github.com/samwilson/basildon/blob/main/composer.json (read 2026-10-20)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/samwilson/basildon (read 2026-10-20)
- currentMajor: https://repo.packagist.org/p2/samwilson/basildon.json (read 2026-10-20)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/samwilson/basildon/releases/latest (read 2026-10-20)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/samwilson/basildon/releases (read 2026-10-20)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/samwilson/basildon (read 2026-10-20)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/samwilson/basildon/contributors (read 2026-10-20)
- packagistDownloads: https://packagist.org/packages/samwilson/basildon.json (read 2026-10-20)
- packagistDownloads: https://packagist.org/packages/samwilson/basildon.json (read 2026-10-20)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/packagist.org/packages/samwilson%2Fbasildon (read 2026-10-25)
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: https://packagist.org/packages/samwilson/basildon/stats.json (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Basildon is a static site generator written in PHP. It reads Markdown files with YAML frontmatter from a content/ directory, makes that frontmatter queryable through SQLite from within Twig templates, and writes the rendered site to an output/ directory. Its output is HTML or any other text-based format, and PDF through LaTeX.

A site is created with Composer from the samwilson/basildon-skeleton package. The output directory is ready to upload to a web server as the top level of the site. A Docker image is also published for running Basildon.

## Worth knowing

Basildon empties the output directory on every run, so anything placed there by hand is removed at the next build.

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Credit, in full: FindSoftware, CC BY 4.0