I’m looking for a good, clean PHP-based CMS that has as powerful in-place editing functions as Apostrophe which is great, but out of the question because of its strong reliance on Symphony and command-line tools that I can’t use for this project. (As discussed in this question, with a nice contribution from one of Apostrophe’s developers! You don’t get that every day.)
“In-place” means that almost all editing work (adding content, deleting content, managing media…) takes place in the front-end of the web site, with a small menu in the screen’s corner leading to everything else.
Consequently executed, this is an extremely intuitive approach that is very easy to use for end-users a whole lot because of the “point-click-and-type” philosophy.
Does anybody have any solid recommendations?
It took alot of searching to find this but it sounds like Exponent CMS is your best bet for getting as close to Apostrophe as you can. I provided the wiki link so you could view the demo link at the bottom and the website link for downloading.
No matter what CMS you go with you will need to learn the syntax and methods. Symfony “can” be done all manually by just creating the files yourself instead of having the symfony file create them for you. Should you need to run command line commands, you could always run exec() from php.