BlogOctober Site of the Month Winner!

25 October 2011 | Aram Balakjian | Site of the Month

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The Votes are in! And the winner of October's SSbits Site Of The Month is.....

TutorialsUsing SilverStripe Environment files for Database Configuration

17 February 2010 | Hamish Campbell | Database | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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Wouldn't it be easy to have a single environment configuration for all your SilverStripe sites without having to reconfigure each one individually? Wouldn't it be great not to have to change environment settings when you push your site from development to live servers? This is easy to achieve using the SilverStripe "ConfigureFromEnv" script.

SnippetsOverriding Silverstripes language files with your own

28 October 2009 | Marcus Dalgren | Translations, Languages

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In my most recent project I've had to run a site in another language (Swedish) and run into some issues which I thought I'd share with all of you. Now Silverstripe probably comes with a translation for your language but even if it does, you probably want to change the wording of some of the phrases, so what to do? You could of course hit up the language files for the relevant module or the ones in cms and sapphire but you really don't want to touch these files if you can help it.

SnippetsHow to access your admin account when you've forgotten the password

22 August 2009 | dalesaurus | Security, Member, Login

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SnippetsManipulating every Nth item in a <% control %> loop

16 July 2009 | Aram Balakjian | DataObjects, Templates | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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Often you will want to manipulate every nth item inside a <% control %> loop. For example say you had a gallery and you wanted every 3rd image to start on a new line, you need to be able to test each item from the template to see if it is divisible by 3 and should therefore have the clear CSS class added to it.

SnippetsUsing canCreate(), canEdit(), canDelete() and canPublish() to manage page type permissions

23 June 2009 | Aram Balakjian | Security | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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Often you will want to control which users can create, edit, delete and publish certain page types. For example you may only want high level users to be able to create ContactPage page types, or prevent low level users from deleting HomePage page types. This can easily be achieved by adding these functions to the page type model (usually just before getCMSFields()). Then within the function you can define conditionals which decide whether to return true or false.

SnippetsExtending $LinkingMode to handle controller actions

20 October 2009 | Marcus Dalgren |

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As some of you might have noticed, as soon as you step outside of the standard SiteTree structure you're pretty much on your own. Today I had to make a menu that mixed normal SiteTree pages and controller actions.

TutorialsCreate a front end theme switcher

17 August 2009 | Martijn van Nieuwenhoven | Templates, Forms, Themes | Supports v2.3

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So you wanna make a demo site for your customers to show all your template skills in one site. A simple theme switcher can come in handy. It's quite easy to implement this. 

First add two new functions to your Page_Controller class:

TutorialsAdd flexible MetaTags control to Pages

15 January 2011 | Martijn van Nieuwenhoven | CMS, DataObjects | Supports v2.4

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When you display DataObjects as if they are a single Page or use a Page Action to display a different view of the same Page, by default your MetaTags are the same as the tags you entered in the CMS.

One way to change the MetaTags dynamicly is to add a lot of template controls to display different MetaTags for each view, but you can get a lot more flexibility by overriding the SiteTree MetaTags function in your Page_Controller.

TutorialsRotating and Greyscaling Images using GD and Decorators

8 December 2010 | Aram Balakjian | Images, Decorators | Supports v2.4

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Some of you might have noticed that SilverStripe's GD class has a couple of interesting looking functions, namely rotate($angle) and greyscale($Red, $Green, $Blue). However it was never quite clear how to use these functions (at least not to me anyway!). So after a bit of trial and error, it turns out it's pretty simple to achieve by decorating the image class and adding a couple of simple functions...

TutorialsUsing a nested controller for generic URL handling

1 February 2011 | Marcus Dalgren | URLs, Controllers | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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In this tutorial we'll be taking a look at SilverStripes nested controller concept and how you can use it in your own projects. Keep in mind though that this tutorial is probably for the more advanced users and for those who whish to learn abit more about how SilverStripe works. I will be referencing Controllers Instead of Pages by Ty Barho and the nested controller we'll be building will be for handling his scenario.

I have also taken the liberty of including a zip file which contains all the code examples from Tys tutorial + the new controller and the new URL rule for it.

TutorialsUse Markdown format with SilverStripe

6 May 2012 | Howard Grigg | CMS, WYSIWYG | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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If you are sick of fumbling with TinyMCE but still want a way to include editable HTML styled content fields in the CMS then Markdown may be the answer.

SnippetsSilverStripe developer bookmarklets

2 April 2012 | Jono Menz | CMS, SilverStripe | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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Here are some handy dynamic bookmarklets for your browser for one click access to things like rebuilding the database, flushing the cache and accessing the CMS!

BlogVote Now! - May Site of the Month

20 May 2011 | Aram Balakjian | Site of the Month

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Here we have 5 excellent websites all developed in SilverStripe. But which one is best? You decide!