Bolt is a lightweight CMS built on Silex with Symfony components that’s fast, easy, and fun to develop with. My recent affinity for Bolt has turned it into my CMS of choice as I make a conscious effort to choose wisely and step away from bloated frameworks. Previously, I gave a very detailed insight into what it’s like developing with Bolt.
Today, we’re going to break down a very popular task into steps in order to accomplish it with ease. Here’s what we’ll be doing:
- We’ll create a content type for news articles to include a title, excerpt, featured image, and body.
- We’ll retrieve the news articles, and display them “blog” style, including pagination.
- Each news article in the feed will link to its dedicated page, where the full article will be displayed.
- On the full article page, we’ll generate links to previous and next articles.
Before we dive in, let’s outline the path we’ll take to make it all happen. First, we’ll grab a fresh install of Bolt via Git and Composer. We’ll be using an SQLite file-based database, as it’s ready to go out of the box and requires no configuration. For quick front-end templating, we’ll pull in a free Boostrap theme from Bootswatch. Bolt leverages Twig, which is a modern templating engine for PHP, so we’ll build a quick theme from scratch using Twig markup. Once we’re all set up, we’ll create our content type, add in some dummy data, and output it onto a page. We’ll keep adding dummy data until we have enough to apply paging, then we’ll link to individual articles and generate previous and next links. Without further ado, let’s dive in!
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by Nick Salloum via SitePoint
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