October is a Content Management System (CMS) and web platform whose sole purpose is to make your development workflow simple again. It was born out of frustration with existing systems. We feel building websites has become a convoluted and confusing process that leaves developers unsatisfied. We want to turn you around to the simpler side and get back to basics.

October's mission is to show the world that web development is not rocket science.

Please note: October is open source but it is not free software. A license with a small fee is required for each website you build with October CMS.

Installing October

Instructions on how to install October can be found at the installation guide.

Quick Start Installation

If you have composer installed, run this in your terminal to install October CMS from command line. This will place the files in a directory named myoctober.

composer create-project october/october myoctober

If you plan on using a database, run this command inside the application directory.

php artisan october:install

Learning October

The best place to learn October CMS is by reading the documentation or following some tutorials.

You may also watch this introductory video. Make sure to check out our official YouTube channel. There is also the excellent video series by Watch & Learn.

For code examples of building with October CMS, visit the RainLab Plugin Suite or the October Demos Repo.

Coding Standards

Please follow the following guides and code standards:

Security Vulnerabilities

Please review our security policy on how to report security vulnerabilities.

Development Team

October CMS was created by Alexey Bobkov and Samuel Georges, who both continue to develop the platform.

Foundation library

The CMS uses Laravel as a foundation PHP framework.

Contact

For announcements and updates:

To chat or hang out:

License

The October CMS platform is licensed software, see End User License Agreement (EULA) for more details.