Open-source PHP + MySQL boilerplate

From a spec to a live site, without the setup tax.

Akola Simple is a batteries-included starting point: a landing page, a working contact-to-admin pipeline, and one-command Coolify deployment.

Features

What's already built in

Every piece below is real, working code in this repo — not a mockup. Click through and it's there.

How It Works

From spec to production

The workflow this boilerplate is built around, described in full in AGENT.md.

Why Akola Simple

Built to be simple to work with

Live Demo

Try the live demo

This form is wired to a real database — submit it and the entry shows up in the admin inbox immediately.

Message sent

That entry is now sitting in the contact_messages table — log into /admin/ to see it in the inbox.

How this demo works