How to change the system
All system files are located in the system folder. You can change your website here.
The system/extensions folder contains configuration files and the log file. You can change the appearance of your website in the system/layouts folder and system/themes folder. You can change all layouts and themes as you like. Knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript is required. It is better not to change any files in the system/workers folder.
System settings
The main configuration file is system/extensions/yellow-system.ini. Here's an example:
Sitename: Anna Svensson Design
Author: Anna Svensson
Email: anna@svensson.com
Language: en
Layout: default
Theme: stockholm
Parser: markdown
Status: public
You can use a web browser or your computer to change the system settings. The system settings contain the settings of your website and of all installed extensions. The following settings can be configured:
Sitename = name of the website
Author = name of the webmaster
Email = email of the webmaster
Language = default language, e.g. en
Layout = default layout
Theme = default theme
Parser = default content parser
Status = default page status, supported status values
Language settings
The language settings are stored in file system/extensions/yellow-language.ini. Here's an example:
Language: en
CoreDescription: Core functionality of your website.
CorePaginationPrevious: ← Previous
CorePaginationNext: Next →
CoreTimeFormatShort: H:i
CoreTimeFormatMedium: H:i:s
CoreTimeFormatLong: H:i:s T
CoreDateFormatShort: F Y
CoreDateFormatMedium: Y-m-d
CoreDateFormatLong: Y-m-d H:i
media/images/photo.jpg: This is an example image
You can define the language settings here. A language consist of Language and other settings. The language settings contain the settings of all installed extensions. You can also add your own language settings to the configuration file, for example image captions.
User settings
The user settings are stored in file system/extensions/yellow-user.ini. Here's an example:
Email: anna@svensson.com
Name: Anna Svensson
Description: Developer and designer
Language: en
Access: create, edit, delete, restore, upload, configure, install, uninstall, update
Home: /
Hash: $2y$10$j26zDnt/xaWxC/eqGKb9p.d6e3pbVENDfRzauTawNCUHHl3CCOIzG
Stamp: 21196d7e857d541849e4
Pending: none
Failed: 0
Modified: 2000-01-01 13:37:00
Status: active
You can use a web browser or the command line to create new user accounts. A user account consists of Email and other settings. If you don't want that pages are modified in a web browser, then restrict user accounts. Open the configuration file, change Access and Home. Users are allowed to edit pages within their home page, but nowhere else.
Extension settings
The extension settings are stored in file system/extensions/yellow-extension.ini. Here's an example:
Extension: Core
Version: 0.9.3
Description: Core functionality of your website.
Developer: Anna Svensson
Tag: feature
DownloadUrl: https://github.com/annaesvensson/yellow-core/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
DocumentationUrl: https://github.com/annaesvensson/yellow-core
DocumentationLanguage: en, de, sv
Published: 2024-04-24 14:38:12
Status: available
system/workers/core.php: core.php, create, update
You can see the installed extensions here. Learn more about extensions.
Page settings
The following settings can be configured at the top of a page:
Title = page title
TitleContent = page title shown in content
TitleNavigation = page title shown in navigation
TitleHeader = page title shown in web browser
TitleSlug = page title used for saving the page
Description = page description
Author = page author(s), comma separated
Email = email of page author
Language = page language, e.g. en
Layout = page layout
LayoutNew = page layout for creating a new page
Theme = page theme
Parser = page content parser
Status = page status, supported status values
Redirect = redirect to a new page or URL
Image = page image
ImageAlt = description of the page image
Modified = page modification date, YYYY-MM-DD format
Published = page publication date, YYYY-MM-DD format
Tag = page tag(s) for categorisation, comma separated
Generate = option(s) for generating a static website, comma separated
Comment = option(s) for showing comments, comma separated
The following page status values are supported:
public = page is a normal page
private = page is not visible, user needs to enter password, requires private extension
draft = page is not visible, user needs to log in, requires draft extension
unlisted = page is not visible, but can be accessed with the correct link
shared = page is not visible, but can be included in other pages
Log file
The log file can be found in file system/extensions/yellow-website.log. Here's an example:
2024-04-28 14:13:07 info Install Datenstrom Yellow 0.9, PHP 8.1.27, Apache 2.4.33, Mac
2024-04-28 14:13:07 info Install extension 'Core 0.9.3'
2024-04-28 14:13:07 info Install extension 'Markdown 0.9.1'
2024-04-28 14:13:07 info Install extension 'Stockholm 0.9.1'
2024-04-28 14:13:07 info Install extension 'English 0.9.2'
2024-04-28 14:13:07 info Install extension 'German 0.9.2'
2024-04-28 14:13:07 info Install extension 'Swedish 0.9.2'
2024-04-28 14:18:11 info Install extension 'Fika 0.9.1'
2024-04-28 14:18:11 error Can't parse file 'system/workers/fika.php'!
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