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      <p><a href="/daily/2024/04/22/building-websites-with-php-and-sculpin">In February</a>, I spoke at the PHP South West meetup about Sculpin - a static site generator written in PHP.</p>

      <p>Sculpin uses Twig, HTML and Markdown to generate static HTML files that you can upload to any web server.</p>

      <p>You don't need PHP or a database server - making it simpler and cheaper to host compared to a CMS-powered site.</p>

      <p>There's also no database for people to hack into and, as they're just static HTML pages, they are very quick to load.</p>

      <p>The downside is that files need to be created and edited locally or editing Git files on GitHub, etc, as there's no CMS to log into.</p>

      <p>Still, for some projects, static site generators are a great option.</p>

      <p>For Drupal, there's Tome - a module that creates a static website from a Drupal installation, and something I plan to investigate.</p>

              
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      <p><a href="/daily/2024/04/22/building-websites-with-php-and-sculpin">In February</a>, I spoke at the PHP South West meetup about Sculpin - a static site generator written in PHP.</p>

      <p>Sculpin uses Twig, HTML and Markdown to generate static HTML files that you can upload to any web server.</p>

      <p>You don't need PHP or a database server - making it simpler and cheaper to host compared to a CMS-powered site.</p>

      <p>There's also no database for people to hack into and, as they're just static HTML pages, they are very quick to load.</p>

      <p>The downside is that files need to be created and edited locally or editing Git files on GitHub, etc, as there's no CMS to log into.</p>

      <p>Still, for some projects, static site generators are a great option.</p>

      <p>For Drupal, there's Tome - a module that creates a static website from a Drupal installation, and something I plan to investigate.</p>

              
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