README

Contao Demo Website

This is an example website for Contao, a powerful open source CMS that allows you to create professional websites and scalable web applications.

About

On the demo website, you will find demonstrations and examples of some of the features this CMS has to offer. The Contao demo website can be added when installing the CMS and is designed to help you get started with your first web projects.

Visit the project website to learn more about Contao.

Table of contents

• Versions
• Installation
  • Contao Manager
  • Composer
• Contributing
• License
• Credits

Versions

The demo website is maintained for the currently supported Contao versions. See the Contao release plan for details. Each version has a separate branch in this Git repository.

We also have rolling release tags. This means the latest commit on each branch is tagged with the respective Contao minor release. As an example, the branch "5.3.x" has a tag "5.3" on the latest commit. These tags enable you to install the latest demo content for any Contao minor version.

Installation

The demo website can be installed alongside Contao, either through the Contao Manager or with Composer on the command line.

On the Contao Manager

When installing a fresh Contao application, select the desired version and check the "Install the Contao demo website" checkbox. Make sure to also import the database backup when the Contao Manager asks you to. That's it!

Using Composer

This repository functions as a Composer project. You can install a full Contao application and this demo using the create-project command. We're assuming here you are familiar with the command line and Composer and have a functioning PHP and webserver setup.

1. Run the following command to create your project

   composer create-project contao/contao-demo:5.3 your-new-website
   

2. Connect the database e.g. through DATABASE_URL in your .env.local file.

   # env.local / make sure to use the correct parameters
   DATABASE_URL="mysql://db_user:db_password@127.0.0.1:3306/db_name"

3. Import the database backup using the following command

   php vendor/bin/contao-console contao:backup:restore
   

4. Finalize the database and run the migrations

   php vendor/bin/contao-console contao:migrate
   

5. Optional: create a separate back end user account and follow the instructions in your CLI

   php vendor/bin/contao-console contao:user:create
   

Login

Once the official Contao demo is installed, access the backend with any of the following credentials:

Contributing

We use GitHub to collect issues and feature requests for the demo website. Feel free to open issues if you have found a typing mistake or have ideas for new example content.

For general questions about Contao or the demo, please refer to the community forums or our Slack channel.

License

The Contao demo website is licensed under the terms of the CreativeCommons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC-BY-SA-4.0) license.

TL;DR You are free to use the Contao demo website as a base for any website you build, even commercially. However, you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

Credits

The screendesign for the Contao Official Demo was sponsored by the Contao Association and borowiakziehe KG. It has been designed by Dennis Weinhardt whom we would like to thank for the great work.

The Contao demo website is maintained by volunteers of the respective Contao team. It supersedes the Contao Official Demo, our previous Contao example website. Many thanks to the Official Demo team for their contributions in the past.