BlogDecember Site of the Month Winner!

27 December 2010 | Aram Balakjian | Site of the Month

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

TutorialsRegistering Users and allowing them to edit their details

20 December 2010 | Aram Balakjian | Security, Templates, Forms, Member, Decorators

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These days many sites require users to register to get full functionality (SSbits included!). This is something that although not avaiable out of the box in SilverStripe is quite strait forward and a great way to gain a better understanding of both the Member and Form systems. In this tutorial we are going to create a simple registration form and a page for users to then edit their details.

BlogDecember Site of the Month: Vote now!

14 December 2010 | Aram Balakjian | Site of the Month

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Here are Decembers top 5 sites for you to vote on your favourite! Vote on...

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...

SnippetsDynamically Combining CSS and Javascript Files for Faster Loading using Requirements

4 December 2010 | Aram Balakjian | CSS | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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As you will most likely already know, reducing the number of HTTP requests that your site makes can have a significant effect on loading times. However, usually it's not practical to combine all your files into a single one for reasons of maintainability. This is where SilverStripe steps in and provides an elegant, automated solution to this common 'requirement' (lol, get it?).

TutorialsQuick & Easy Google Analytics with SiteConfig

24 November 2010 | Ty Barho | Decorators, SiteConfig | Supports v2.4

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Many people need a way to monitor their website, and while it's pretty easy to add the code to a SilverStripe template, or even the basic Page_Controller, I thought I would show how I modularized and made it accessible from the SiteConfig area of the CMS.

BlogNovember Site of the Month: The Winner!

20 November 2010 | Aram Balakjian | Site of the Month

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

TutorialsDataObjects as Pages - Part 2: Using Model Admin and URL Segments to create a product catalogue

14 November 2010 | Aram Balakjian | DataObjects, URLs, Model Admin | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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We now know the basics of using DataObjects as Pages from Part 1 of this tutorial. In part 2, we are now going to look at taking this further and creating a basic product catalogue with products that are DataObjects managed via the ModelAdmin interface. This tutorial will also serve as an introduction to ModelAdmin it self, which is an extremely powerful CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) manager for any type of DataObject, whether used as pages or not.

BlogNovember Website of the Month: Vote Now!

10 November 2010 | Aram Balakjian | Site of the Month

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Here we are, 5 of this months best entries are now up for you to vote on your favourite!

NewbiesScreencast: Installing SilverStripe on a cPanel Host

7 November 2010 | Aram Balakjian | Screencast, Installing, cPanel | Supports v2.4

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In this, the first SSbits Screencast I will take you though the process of Installing SilverStripe on your CPanel hosting enviroment. It's actually very simple once you know how and can be completed in a matter of minutes! 

SnippetsOptimizing Complex Models

4 November 2010 | Hamish Campbell | DataObjects, Database, Relations | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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The SilverStripe ORM engine (Sapphire) makes working with your database a breeze, but that simplicity comes at a cost. Each database query contributes to slower page load times and a complicated data structure can create significant performance issues.

Here are a number of strategies that can be employed to improve your website query performance:

TutorialsEmbedding a contact form in a sidebar

28 October 2010 | Frank Mullenger | Templates, Forms, SiteConfig | Supports v2.4

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In this tutorial we are going to add a form to a sidebar that can be included on any page on a website. You will be able to set whether to show the Form on a particular page via checkbox in the CMS. The work is based on the Working with SiteConfig and Creating a Simple Contact Form tutorials.

TutorialsPaginating a filtered DataObjectSet

25 October 2010 | Marcus Dalgren | DataObjects, Templates | Supports v2.4

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If you have ever tried to paginate a DataObjectSet that has been customised since fetching it from the database you will have descovered that it simply doesn't work. This short tutorial provides some great code to resolve this problem and paginate to your hearts content!

BlogSite of the Month: The Winner!

21 October 2010 | 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.....