Apostrophe (PHP)

The interface is ergonomic, all content-editing is performed in-context.

Next each important page section, small action-control-customization buttons are shown.

On top of the website, an administrative bar will also be shown.

Apostrophe allows webmasters to define areas in website templates and set options for the content they support.

Clients can so add content without worrying about the design.

Editing works 100% in Firefox 2+, Safari 4+, Chrome and Internet Explorer 7+. Editing is expressly not supported in Internet Explorer 6.

A new branch of Apostrophe (2.x) is also available, but working on top of Node.js.

Features:

• Create flexible templates with sections that can expand to accommodate different types of content.
• Extend the capabilities of the CMS with your own custom modules and content slots.
• Apostrophe is an extension of the Symfony framework.
• Manage media (images, videos, pdfs...).
• Create and edit slideshows.
• Add pages, blog posts, or events on the fly.
• Revert any content slot to an earlier state.
• Set editor permissions per page.
• Search all content.
• Content "slots" include plaintext, rich text, RSS feeds, photos, slideshows, videos, PDFs and raw HTML slots.
• Apostrophe intelligently filters content pasted from Word and other programs to ensure there are no design-busting markup conflicts.
• Page locking.
• Blog.
• When a user is logged in with appropriate privileges intuitive editing tools are added to the usual navigation, neatly extending the metaphors already present rather than requiring a second interface solely for editing purposes.

What is new in this release:

• Manual cropping, with constraints. Users can crop images to meet the needs of a particular content slot without damaging your design
• Big improvements in performance, including built-in CSS and JavaScript minifiers
• Page permissions completely reworked to easily support thousands of users with editing and viewing privileges in specific places
• Audio slot for hosted MP3 playback
• Built-in support for the LESS CSS compiler
• Media repository now accommodates Microsoft Office files, can be extended to allow other new downloadable filetypes
• iPhone and other cameras that save orientation hints in JPEGs are now fully compatible, Apostrophe auto-rotates these images
• Vimeo, Viddler, SlideShare and YouTube are all native, with integrated search and the ability to link accounts and automatically sync content. There is an open API to create additional integrated service plugins
• New "Smart Slideshow" slot brings in images automatically via categories or tags
• Major usability improvements throughout
• Search has been enhanced. You can now search on specific fields (title, slug, tags, categories, body) and appropriate fields are given extra weight in ordinary search results. Search is tightly integrated into the blog and events plugin
• Search engine improvements
• New import-site task accepts XML files and loads a full-fledged Apostrophe site, including conversion of HTML blocks with embedded images into a series of rich text and image slots in an area
• Better i18n support "under the hood" (updated XLIFF files coming shortly)
• Based on the new sfDoctrineGuardPlugin: full names and email addresses are now part of the user management system, not just usernames
• Apostrophe's events feature is integrated with Google Calendar, Outlook and iCal among others thanks to the vCalendar standard. Fully tested for Outlook compatibility back to 2003
• Completely revamped the "blog posts" and "events" slots with excellent typeahead search for picking individual posts, easy selection of tags and categories for automatic selection of relevant content
• Separate public pages can display separate categories of blog content using custom templates as appropriate
• Improved RSS feed slot has built-in support for Twitter @names, automatic detection of RSS feeds associated with ordinary web page URLs ("cnn.com" just works)
• Better outgoing RSS feeds from the blog plugin

Requirements:

• PHP 5.2.4 or higher
• PDO driver for MySQL
• GD library support
• Ghostscript for PDF previews