symphonycms/symphony-2

# Symphony CMS

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- Version: 3.0.0
- Date: 27th March 2020
- [Release notes](https://www.getsymphony.com/download/releases/version/3.0.0/)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/symphonycms/symphonycms/blob/3.0.0/CHANGELOG.md)
- [Github repository](https://github.com/symphonycms/symphonycms/tree/3.0.0)
- [MIT Licence](https://github.com/symphonycms/symphonycms/blob/master/LICENCE)

## Contents

* [Overview](#overview)
* [Server requirements](#server-requirements)
* [Responsible Security Disclosure](#responsible-security-disclosure)

## Quick links

* [Installing](.docs/dev/INSTALLING.md)
* [Updating from LTS](.docs/dev/UPDATING.md)
* [Contributing](.docs/dev/CONTRIBUTING.md)
* [Documentation TOC](.docs/TOC.md)

## Overview

Symphony is a `PHP` & `MySQL` based CMS that utilises `XML` and `XSLT` as its core technologies. This repository represents version `3.0.0` and is considered stable.

Useful places:

- [The Symphony website](https://www.getsymphony.com/)
- [The Symphony forum](https://www.getsymphony.com/discuss/)
- [Symphony Extensions](http://symphonyextensions.com/)
- [DEV chat room](https://gitter.im/symphonycms/symphony-2)
- [HELP chat room](https://gitter.im/symphonycms/symphony-2/help)

## Server requirements

- PHP 5.6 or 7.0-7.3
- PHP’s LibXML module, with the XSLT extension enabled (`--with-xsl`)
- MySQL 5.7 or above is recommended
- A webserver (known to be used with Apache, Litespeed, Nginx and Hiawatha)
- Apache’s `mod_rewrite` module or equivalent
- PHP’s built in `json` functions, which are enabled by default in PHP 5.2 and above; if they are missing, ensure PHP wasn’t compiled with `--disable-json`
- PHP’s `zlib` module
- PHP’s `pdo_mysql` module

## Responsible Security Disclosure

Please follow [the guideline for security bug disclosure](https://github.com/symphonycms/symphonycms/wiki/Security-Bug-Disclosure).