Symphony No.5

• Version 0.8.0
• Date: 3rd December 2012

Overview

Symphony No.5 is a Symphony CMS installation with an adapted HTML5Boilerplate master.xsl template. It works in tandem with symphonyno5.sh for command-line admin of your Symphony project.

Features

• HTML5 master.xsl XSLT template based on HTML5Boilerplate
• Works with symphonyno5.sh for easy command-line admin
• extensions.csv list for Symphony Extensions - installed as git submodules via symphonyno5.sh
• Split Manifest directory structure for separate Development & Production environments
• Repsonsive Design Test Page with common breakpoints (/responsive.html)
• Selection of CSS resets/helpers available: -
  • HTML5Boilerplate default CSS
  • Normalize.css
  • html5doctor.com CSS Reset
  • Font Awesome (font-based icons)
  • Universal Border Box Set box-sizing: border-box for all elements

Contents

• Installation
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Changelog
• Symphony CMS Overview
  • Symphony Server Requirements
• Licenses

Installation

1. Install symphonyno5.sh to your $PATH
2. Setup Apache (or equivalent) web server to serve your domain
3. Setup a MySQL database (recommend charset=utf-8, collate=utf8_unicode_ci)
4. Setup a MySQL user for the database, taking note of connection details
5. symphonyno5.sh new projectname and follow the instructions

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What happened to all the CSS & Javascript minification stuff?

   In order to be more modular this functionality has been moved to a dedicated Symphony extension Asset Compiler - check it out!

Changelog

• 0.8.0 - 3 Dec 12 -
  • Removed all asset minification support (moved to separate extension Asset Compiler
  • Removed CSS pre-processor defaults
  • Added normalize.css as CSS library option
  • Added H5BP's default h5bp-main.css as CSS library option
• 0.7.0 - 24 Nov 12 -
  • Add automated production-{SHA1hash}.min.ext styles and scripts
  • Updates to match improvements in SymphonyNo5.sh
  • Remove legacy Ant build script
  • Remove custom Less CSS code, make CSS PreProcessor support agnostic
  • Remove Bootstrap integration
  • Remove hana+nils XSLT Kit for Symphony
  • Remove use-case specific meta tags
• 0.6.1 - 22 Nov 12 -
  • Add Production Mode extension for automatic serving of minified assets in production mode
• 0.6.0 - 21 Nov 12 -
  • New command-line bash script for easy installation/admin symphonyno5.sh
  • Move extension/submodule control to extensions.csv
  • Move apple-touch-icon(s) out of root directory
  • Remove .htaccess - let Symphony create it as part of install
• 0.5.3 - 20 Nov 12 -
  • Added hana+nils' XSLT Kit for Symphony
• 0.5.2 - 19 Nov 12 -
  • Upgraded to Symphony v2.3.1
  • Upgraded to JQuery v1.8.3
  • Upgraded to Bootstrap v2.2.1
  • Updated Documentation, added FAQ and more Usage instructions
  • Disabled Bootstrap by default - uncomment in main.less, master.xsl & build.xml to selectivly enable features
  • Standardised styles/scripts naming - main.ext and vendor/
  • Moved 3rd party styles to styles/vendor/
• 0.5.1 - 31 Aug 12 -
  • Minor updates from HTML5Boilerplate 4.0.0
• 0.5.0 - 21 Aug 12 -
  • Upgraded to Bootstrap v2.1.0
  • Start adhering to Semantic Versioning for Symphony No.5 releases
• 0.4.1 - 17 Aug 12 -
  • Detailed example installation instructions
  • Less CSS usage instruction
  • Ant build script usage instructions
  • Added Bootstrap javascripts files as active defaults to master.xsl and Ant build script
  • Enabled Bootstrap's Responsive features by default in styles.less
  • Changed div.container to div.wrapper - compatibility with Bootstrap
  • Removed 'body-' prefix to body.page class, redundant
  • Added 'main' class to each top-level section element
  • Added 'content' class to main page content div
• 0.4.0 - 14 Aug 12 -
  • Upgraded to Symphony CMS 2.3
  • Removed 320andup stylesheets
  • Refactored Bootstrap to run as git submodule, eases upgrading
  • Improved Ant build script to use explicit filelist to allow order-dependent concatenation
  • Improved responsive tester with more sizes and allowing javascript to run
  • Added format-date.xsl XSLT to utilities (more options than date-time.xsl)
  • Added Google Analytics code from H5BP back into master.xsl
  • Merged helper.js into plugins.js
  • Added more .main classes to master.xsl
  • Removed Apple icons meta tags from head in master.xsl
  • Upgraded JQuery 1.7.2 -> 1.8.0
  • Upgraded Modernizr 2.5.3 -> 2.6.1
• 0.3.1 - 7 May 12 -
  • Incorporated much of Andy Clarke's 320andup, including: -
    • Font-based icons from Font Awesome
    • Selectivizr
    • Responsive design tester
    • LESS file setup, mixins and variables
    • Reference page
  • Merged all Less and CSS files under a single styles/ directory
  • Changed js/ -> scripts/
  • Changed js/libs/ -> scripts/vendor/ (H5BP)
  • Changed js/script.js -> scripts/main.js (H5BP)
  • Changed js/script.coffee -> scripts/main.coffee
  • Upgraded JQuery 1.7.1 -> 1.7.2
  • Replaced favicon and apple touch icon with custom default
  • Moved multiple resolution apple touch icons to workspace/images/icons/
  • Added .gitignore files to force empty dirs for data-sources/, events/ & pages/
  • Dropped support for IE less than 8
  • Changed all default element IDs to classes in master.xsl
  • Added role="navigation" to default nav element in navigation.xsl
• 0.3.0 - 12 Mar 12 -
  • Updated to HTML5Boilerplate 3.0
  • Added Bootstrap, from Twitter (2.0.1)
  • Added default script.coffee to js/ dir
  • Added sensible default files structure to less/ dir
  • Improved Symphony CMS installation instructions re: file permissions
• 0.2.2 - 16 Nov 11 - Updated to Symphony 2.2.5
• 0.2.1 - 23 Oct 11 - Updated to Symphony 2.2.4
• 0.2.0 - 22 Aug 11 - Updating to H5BP 2.0, fix for build script & misc bug fixes
• 0.1.8 - 10 Jun 11 - Reverting closing tag of fallback JQuery, XSLT doesn't like it
• 0.1.7 - 10 Jun 11 -
  • Added installation gudie
  • Upgraded to JQuery 1.6.1
  • Upgraded to Modernizr 2.0
  • Simpler closing script tag for fallback JQuery imported from HBP5
  • Updated humans.txt
  • Removed default home.xsl (unnecessary)
  • Removed all known remaining personalisation
• 0.1.6 - 21 May 11 - Stripped out personalisation of humans.txt
• 0.1.5 - 20 May 11 - Updating to new .oldie class for IE compatibility (from HTML5Bolierplate)
• 0.1.4 - 17 May 11 - Added Coffeescript support to the Ant build script (Coffeescript required)
• 0.1.3 - 16 May 11 - Fixed bug in the JQuery local fallback script closing tag
• 0.1.2 - 13 May 11 - Fixed bug in the IE9/non-IE conditional comment CDATA
• 0.1.1 - 28 Apr 11 - Updated to Symphony 2.2.1
• 0.1.0 - 31 Mar 11 - Initial version

Symphony CMS Overview

Symphony is a PHP & MySQL based CMS that utilises XML and XSLT as its core technologies.

• Visit the website at http://getsymphony.com/
• Github Repository: http://github.com/symphonycms/symphony-2/

Symphony Server Requirements

• PHP 5.2 or above
• PHP's LibXML module, with the XSLT extension enabled (--with-xsl)
• MySQL 4.1 or above
• An Apache or Litespeed webserver
• Apache's mod_rewrite module or equivalent

Licenses

Please refer to the LICENSE.* files in the root directory.