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SiteCake: Tiny, simple, flat-file, drag and drop CMS

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Re: SiteCake: Tiny, simple, flat-file, drag and drop CMS

#4

In the first code block (how to install) you have the "pretty" (”) quote style rather than just ".

Just to be clear, I'm not the original author. It's just something I've been using with success for mom & pop style websites and felt it was underexposed for being so simple (and free to boot).

Re: SiteCake: Tiny, simple, flat-file, drag and drop CMS

#5
post #2

Cool, how does it work?

Basically you just mark out some tags as class="sc-content", and they'll become drag&drop WYSIWYG editable. The changes get written right back into the file, so you don't need anything other than PHP 5.4 and write permissions. You can even remove the SiteCake file again, and your site will just keep working (as static HTML).

Re: SiteCake: Tiny, simple, flat-file, drag and drop CMS

#6
post #5
post #2

Cool, how does it work?

Basically you just mark out some tags as class="sc-content", and they'll become drag&drop WYSIWYG editable. The changes get written right back into the file, so you don't need anything other than PHP 5.4 and write permissions. You can even remove the SiteCake file again, and your site will just keep working (as static HTML).

Amazing, thanks for this. This is one of the rare cases when PHP as a language shines for a use-case like this.

Re: SiteCake: Tiny, simple, flat-file, drag and drop CMS

#10
post #4

In the first code block (how to install) you have the "pretty" (”) quote style rather than just ".

Just to be clear, I'm not the original author. It's just something I've been using with success for mom & pop style websites and felt it was underexposed for being so simple (and free to boot).

Once I read it I thought this is exactly what I would use for friend projects. Personally I find most web tech to be a horrible hack and don't enjoy working on it. This would be quick and easy and allows me to just hand off quickly.
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