A free and open-source blog engine
Sapphire-Engine is a free and open-source blog CMS, under the GNU GPL 3, made in PHP, freely downloadable and usable. There you can find the basic blogging functions: writing articles and classifying them by category, geting comments... The Sapphire-Engine's code is opened and you are free to change it on your willing. It makes it easier and faster to improve, or optimize for personal use. It also makes programming addons easier.
Fast
The installation only takes a few seconds. Sapphire-Engine has been optimized for a faster browsing.
A PHP-made database
Sapphire-Engine saves its data into PHP files. Displaying a page only needs to read the dedicated file, avoiding using a heavy database like MySQL.
The respect of web's semantic
The HTML tags, whitch is used to display websites, have been chosen for their meanings, to make Sapphire-Engine readable by everyone.
Multiple skins
Sapphire-Engine can have multiple faces. The HTML is put in several separted files, so the visitor can choose the skin to use according to his preferences and his browser.
A cache system
To stay fast, Sapphire-Engine saves the generated pages for a moment.
The layout freedom
You won't find any BBCode here! You can use every HTML tag to make the layout. An interface composed by taging buttons and a live preview is here to help newbies!
Available for multiple users
We can write articles alone and with friends! Each user is autonomous, and can manage the blog the way they are allowed to.
Files managment
To save pictures, for example, you can find an upload form for small files.
Easy data importing and exporting
Sapphire-Engine's data can be saved into Gzip or text files. It is thus possible to restore them anytime if something goes wrong!
An extensible system
Sapphire-Engine allows you to install addons and get more features! For example, you can find an RSS feeds extension.