«book publishing as easy as it should be»
easybook lets you easily publish books in various electronic formats (PDF, ePub and HTML). It was originally designed to publish technical programming books, but you can use easyboook to publish any kind of book, manual or documentation website.
easybook can be installed in three different ways depending upon your needs:
- ZIP instalation: best suited for users who want to try easybook features as fast and easy as possible.
- Composer installation: recommended for regular users who want to use easybook for publishing books and documentation.
- Git installation: reserved for advanced developers who want to hack and modify easybook.
Regardless the way you install it, use easybook with the book command:
$ cd easybook-installation-dir
$ ./book
If the last command doesn't work, try php book or check book script
permissions.
- Download easybook.zip file.
- Uncompress
easybook.zipfile in any directory.
# create a directory for easybook
$ mkdir easybook
# install easybook and all its dependencies in 'easybook' directory
$ composer create-project easybook/easybook easybook
This method requires that Composer is previously installed on your system. Execute the following commands to install Composer globally:
$ curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
# clone easybook repository
$ mkdir easybook
$ git clone http://github.com/javiereguiluz/easybook.git easybook
# download vendors and dependencies
$ cd easybook
$ composer install
This method requires that Composer is previously installed on your system. Execute the following commands to install Composer globally:
$ curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
easybook is fully documented at http://easybook-project.org/documentation
easybook is licensed under the MIT license.
Execute the following command to test easybook (requires PHPUnit):
$ cd easybook
$ phpunit
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In order to generate PDF files, PrinceXML library must be installed. If you haven't installed it yet, you can download a fully-functional demo at:
http://www.princexml.com/download