TutorialsWorking with Site Config

19 April 2010 | Aram Balakjian | CMS, Decorators, SiteConfig | Supports v2.4

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One of the great new features of 2.4 is the introduction of a Site Config page. This allows you to put all of those fields which are not page related, such as The sites title, root access permissions and even the current theme. The SiteConfig class is simply a dataobject and so can easily be extended to include fields, relationships and functions which you can then access from anywhere in your site.

SnippetsGetting items from a has_many or many_many relation

7 October 2010 | Aram Balakjian | DataObjects, Database, Relations | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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Have you ever found yourself using DataObject::get() to fetch objects in a has_many so that you can filter/sort them easily?

Well as it happens there is no need to do this thanks to a totally undocumented bit of code!

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!

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.

TutorialsAdding an image to a blog post using Decorators and the SilverStripe Blog Module

31 May 2011 | Matt Clegg | CMS, Images, Decorators | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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The Silverstripe blog module is great and its made its way into many of my Silverstripe sites. However, for most designers it is missing one vital aspect; an image field for each post. In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to quickly add an image to the blog module without editing any of it's files, allowing hassle free upgrading in future.

SnippetsSet the Redirect after a successful Member Login

31 May 2010 | dalesaurus | Security, Forms, Member | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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The Member system that comes with SilverStripe offers substantial control over your site's authentication capabilities. It often requires the developer to build out or extend most common functionality to websites. This is great in that you are never "stuck" with the out-of-the-box offerings, but as any SS dev knows you end up with a little bag of Member tricks that gets used across many projects. Presented here is one that I use often.

SnippetsAutomatically ?flush when in 'dev' mode

15 April 2010 | Daniel Hensby | Templates | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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Often when doing development work on a website - and particularly the templates - it can be a pain having to remember to add ?flush to the end of the URL to make sure all of your changes have come through. I'm sure that all of us have had that "d'oh" moment when we have spent too much time wondering why our changes weren't working, only to find a simple flush fixed it.

TutorialsCreate an AJAX Auto-Complete Member Search with SilverStripe and jQuery

10 May 2011 | Aram Balakjian | JavaScript | Supports v2.4

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For ages now I have been meaning to figure out how to get an AJAX autocomplete field working with SilverStripe Objects. So when I found this great jQuery Autocomplete Plugin, I thought now would be a good time. As always SilverStripe provides all the tools necessary to complete the task without too much hassle. 

TutorialsCustom Login Form with Group Based Redirection

7 April 2009 | Aram Balakjian | CMS, Security, Forms, Member | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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In this tutorial we are going to create a system that allows the Admin to decide which (front-end) page a group of users are redirected to after login. This will be defined via a TreeDropdown for each group in the security section, and can also be set to send them to the admin area via a checkbox.

Blog10 Super Useful SilverStripe Documentation Pages

11 April 2009 | Aram Balakjian | SilverStripe

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Since I started learning SilverStripe I have come across a number of very useful documentation pages which were not very easy to find (at least not as easy as they could be). So here is a list of 10 official documentation pages which I always find myself referring back to.

SnippetsRemove theme selector from SiteConfig

15 October 2010 | Daniel Hensby | Decorators, SiteConfig, Themes | Supports v2.4

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2.4 has introduced the SiteConfig, which by default allows the user to switch themes - if they exist.

It's incredibly useful to have this functionality built-in now, but for those that only have one theme for a site, it's a bit of unnecessary clutter. Here is how to remove it by using a decorator

BlogVote Now! - January Site of the Month

19 January 2011 | Aram Balakjian | Site of the Month

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So here we are, after a slightly longer than usual wait: The January 2011 Site of the Month Finalists! There are some really great sites this month so vote on your favourite now!

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.

TutorialsCustom sorting in the CMS SiteTree

14 February 2011 | Marcus Dalgren | CMS, Site Tree, Database | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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Ever wanted to sort some parts of the SiteTree? Well now you can!