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Let's call it a Laravel Content Management Framework

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Maintainer Username:	code16
Maintainer Contact:	philippe@code16.fr (Philippe Lonchampt)
Package Create Date:	2017-03-29
Package Last Update:	2025-10-21
Home Page:	https://sharp.code16.fr/
Language:	PHP
License:	MIT
Last Refreshed:	2025-10-22 15:07:58

Sharp 4

Sharp is not a CMS: it's a content management framework, a toolset which provides help building a CMS section in a website, with some rules in mind:

the public website should not have any knowledge of the CMS — the CMS is a part of the system, not the center of it. In fact, removing the CMS should not have any effect on the project.
The CMS should not have any expectations from the persistence layer: MySQL is cool — but it's not the perfect tool for every problem. And more important, the DB structure has nothing to do with the CMS.
Content administrators should work with their data and terminology, not CMS terms. I mean, if the project is about spaceships, space travels and pilots, why would the CMS talk about articles, categories and tags?
website developers should not have to work on the front-end development for the CMS. Yeah. Because life is complicated enough, Sharp takes care of all the responsive / CSS / JS stuff.

Sharp intends to provide a clean solution to the following needs:

create, update or delete any structured data of the project, handling validation and errors;
display, search, sort or filter data;
execute custom commands on one instance, a selection or all instances;
handle authorizations and validation;
all without write a line of front code, and using a clean API in the PHP app.

Sharp 4 needs Laravel 5.5+ and PHP 7.1.3+.

Documentation

The full documentation is available here: sharp.code16.fr/docs.

A Sharp instance for a dummy demo project is online here: sharp.code16.fr/sharp/. Use these accounts to login:

Data of this demo is reset each hour.

Here's a series of blog posts which present Sharp following a simple example:

And a few more articles on specific features: