Introduction

Jumbo builds content sites in plain PHP. Each file in pages/ is a route, layouts are PHP templates, Markdown renders inside them, and the same app serves pages on request or writes them to static HTML with jumbo build.

It runs on Dumbo, a small PHP framework for HTTP. Every Jumbo site is a Dumbo app, so middleware, API routes and the rest of Dumbo's docs apply to your site too.

What's in the box#

• Routes from files, with params like [slug] and [...path]
• Markdown with front matter, a table of contents, components and code highlighted on the server
• Layouts with named slots, written in PHP
• Forms handled by the page that shows them
• Responsive images, resized with GD
• Pagination, redirects, locales, RSS and a sitemap
• Live reload in development, and static builds that match what the server sends

How a page gets rendered#

jumbo dev runs PHP's built-in server. A request for /blog/hello matches pages/blog/[slug].php, Jumbo renders that file, and the response goes back out through Dumbo's middleware.

jumbo build makes the same requests through the app for every page it can list, and writes each response to dist/. You write a page once, and static hosting and a PHP server get the same HTML.

Where to go next#

The quickstart makes a site from the starter in a couple of minutes. The examples are complete sites you can read or copy.