secondwheel-engine

Minimal PHP blog engine that reads Markdown files from posts/ and renders index + post pages. No database, no admin UI.

Quick start

1. Place your posts in posts/ as either:
   • posts/your-slug.md
   • posts/YYYY/MM/your-slug/index.md

Each file may start with front matter:

---
title: My First Post
date: 2025-08-07
summary: Optional one-liner for the index.
---

2. Edit config.php and set base_url if deploying to a domain.

3. Serve index.php and post.php from your document root, or move everything under public/ and adjust paths accordingly. For pretty URLs, use public/.htaccess and route /post/<slug> to post.php?slug=<slug>.

Parsedown

This engine uses Parsedown for Markdown rendering. The library is included in lib/Parsedown.php, so no extra installation steps are required.