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title: About
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<h1>About Herbie</h1>

<p>With Herbie you are able to create a fully functional website or blog in a short amount of time and with little
    effort.</p>

<p>Herbie is based on proven libraries and concepts:</p>

<ul>
    <li><a href="http://twig.sensiolabs.org">Twig</a> Template Engine for rendering layout and page files</li>
    <li><a href="https://www.markdownguide.org">Markdown</a> and <a href="https://textile-lang.com">Textile</a> for
        formatting page content
    </li>
    <li><a href="http://www.yaml.org">Yaml</a> for configuration and data structures files</li>
    <li><a href="http://getcomposer.org">Composer</a> and <a href="https://packagist.org">Packagist</a> for dependency
        and plugin management
    </li>
    <li>A custom event manager and intercepting filter for providing a mechanism to alter the workflow during the application lifecycle</a></li>
    <li>PHP Middlewares</li>
</ul>

<p>Herbie supports the following <a href="https://www.php-fig.org/psr/">PHP Standards Recommendations</a>:</p>

<ul>
    <li>PSR-2 Coding Style Guide</li>
    <li>PSR-3 Logger Interface</li>
    <li>PSR-4 Autoloading Standard</li>
    <li>PSR-7 HTTP Message Interface</li>
    <li>PSR-11 Container Interface</li>
    <li>PSR-15 HTTP Handlers</li>
    <li>PSR-16 Simple Cache</li>
    <li>PSR-17 HTTP Factories</li>
</ul>

<h2>More Information</h2>

<p>More information see <a href="https://www.getherbie.org">www.getherbie.org</a>.</p>