Sharp is a content management framework, a toolset which provides help to build a CMS section in a website, with some rules in mind:

• the public website should not have any knowledge of the CMS — the CMS is a part of the system, not the center of it. In fact, removing the CMS should not have any effect on the project.
• Content administrators should work with their data and terminology, not CMS terms. I mean, if the project is about spaceships, space travels and pilots, why would the CMS talk about articles, categories and tags?
• Developers should not have to work on the front-end development for the CMS. Because life is complicated enough, Sharp takes care of all the responsive / CSS / JS stuff.
• The CMS should not have any expectations from the persistence layer: MySQL is cool — but it's not the perfect tool for every problem. And more important, the DB structure has nothing to do with the CMS.

Sharp intends to provide a clean solution to the following needs:

• create, update or delete any structured data of the project, handling validation and errors;
• display, search, sort or filter data;
• execute custom commands on one instance, a selection or all instances;
• handle authorizations and validation;
• all without write a line of front code, and using a clean API in the PHP app.

Sharp needs Laravel 8+ and PHP 8.0+.

Documentation 📖

The full documentation is available here: sharp.code16.fr/docs.

Online example 🖥️

A Sharp instance for a demo project is online here: sharp.code16.fr/sharp/.

Data of this demo is reset each hour.

Additional resources 🖊️

See Code 16's blog, and start with this introduction post: Leveraging Sharp, an open source content management framework, in a Laravel project.