🌐 Website: sym8.io
Sym8 is a modern fork and continuation of the open-source CMS Symphony, originally created by Alistair Kearney and the Symphony community. It preserves the power of XSLT and the elegance of modular extensibility – brought up to date for modern PHP and developer workflows.
All standard HTML5 input types – including color, email, month, number, range, tel, time, url and week – are now natively supported in the Symphony Core. This enables native browser validation and improves accessibility and usability out of the box.
Sym8 ships with essential improvements and must-have extensions out of the box:
- 🌐 Database connection changed from utf8 to utf8mb4 (multibyte)
- ✅ Dashboard-Extension (required) — shows system environment (PHP version, available pages, data sources, sections) and includes a feed for upcoming Sym8 versions
- 🖼 Generate images in any size on the fly—including
WebPandAVIF - 💽 Lightweight and efficient cache & storage management
- 🗜 HTML5-Extension: the trailing slash for self-closing elements is removed according to the recommendation of the W3C validator. Addional the HTML source code can be minified.
- ✨ Minimalist frontend with Pico CSS included for a clean start
