Hot Toddy (formerly Hierophant) provides a PHP framework that strives to mimic the look and feel of Mac OS X applications, and therefore provide website management tools that closely follow Apple's Human Interface guidelines and a CMS experience on par with Mac OS X desktop applications.

Hot Toddy provides a file management utility, "Finder", a contact management utility "Contacts", a blog and calendar management utility "Calendar", and various other tools.

Hot Toddy is an ongoing project, and is expected to be in an alpha state of development for the foreseeable future.

Hot Toddy Installation Requirements

• Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server
• Apache with mod_rewrite
• PHP 5
• MySQL
• Subversion

An alpha release of a Mac Installer package made using Appcelerator's Titanium is now available: Hot Toddy Installer.dmg

The Hot Toddy Installer application requires Mac OS X (client or server), with Apple's default Apache and PHP installation (third-party replacements like MAMP are not supported), MySQL (either included in Mac OS X Server, or installed to the default location used by the MySQL installer), and Subversion.

While the Mac OS X installer attempts to automatically configure Apache, at present, it does not attempt to detect and enable PHP scripting in Mac OS X's installation of Apache, which must be enabled prior to attempting installation.

Documentation is an ongoing effort, but you can read what documentation I have completed at the following URL: Hot Toddy Documentation