TutorialsWorking with banners

13 July 2009 | Nick Jacobs | Images, Templates | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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Most of the sites I work on are for corporate/business clients and there is not typically a lot of fancy motion graphics going on. I do like to ensure there is some dynamic element going on, just to provide a bit of interest and one of the simplest ways to achieve this is by some variation of the random/rotating banners scenario. Of course this could equally apply to other parts of the page, not just banner graphics.

TutorialsAdding a CMS action

1 September 2009 | Aram Balakjian | CMS, Forms, Decorators | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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If like me you cannot figure out how on earth to use the updateCMSActions() function in a decorator and you also can't get the getCMSActions() function to find your custom method inside the controller then here is a way to make it work, which will allow you to create custom actions and buttons to trigger those actions within the CMS.

BlogEnter now! - October Site of the Month

4 October 2011 | Aram Balakjian | Site of the Month

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Enter your site for a chance to be in the final 5 vote off! Voting will begin on the 12th of October.

Enter Your Site >

BlogMay Site of the Month - Vote now!

16 May 2012 | Aram Balakjian | Site of the Month

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It's that time again, vote for your favourite SilverStripe site!

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.

SnippetsUsing a Print Stylesheet

16 December 2009 | Aram Balakjian | CSS, Templates

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Often people want to be able to print webpages without all the menus and graphics and with all the content fitting correctly onto a page. To do this you need to create a separate print stylesheet. It would look something like this:

SnippetsRemoving an Item From the Main CMS Menu

3 July 2009 | Aram Balakjian | CMS, Security

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If you want to remove an item from the CMSTopMenu without making it inaccessible you can add this line to your _config.php file:

CMSMenu::remove_menu_item('SecurityAdmin');

SnippetsChanging the CMS Help Link

10 June 2009 | Hamish Campbell |

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Usually you can change the CMS menu settings from your site configuration, but the "Help" link is hard-coded to allow for translations. This snippet, placed in your site configuration file will override the "Help" link with a link back to your site:

CMSMenu::add_link('Help', 'Home', Director::baseUrl());

SnippetsDisplaying Fields From a Set of Pages on Another Page

25 May 2009 | Aram Balakjian | DataObjects, Templates, Database | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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Although ultimately requiring very little code, displaying data from a set of pages on another page can seem confusing for those new to SilverStripe. This example will display all of the Images from all the staff pages on our current page. This works by first returning all the staff pages to our template and cycling through each of them, drawing the Image for each one.

SnippetsGetting objects from multiple child pages

14 April 2009 | Hamish Campbell | DataObjects, Templates | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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When you want to create a DataObjectSet encompasing objects from all the current pages children you can do something like this

$pageIDs = $this->getDescendantIDList();
$ObjectSet = DataObject::get(
                 "Object", 
                 "`ObjectPageID` IN (" . implode(",", $pageIDs) . ")"
                  );

SnippetsCheck to see if a widget area has any widgets

5 April 2009 | Chris Rowbotham |

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If you want to check that a WidgetArea actually has widgets, and only display it if it has, you can add this function to your Page_Controller (where widgetBarID is the name of your widgetArea + ID)

function HasWidgets() {
    return DataObject::get("Widget", "ParentID = $this->WidgetbarID");
}