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.....

BlogMarch Site of the Month Winner!

30 March 2011 | Aram Balakjian | Site of the Month

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

BlogJanuary Site of the Month Winner!

2 February 2011 | Aram Balakjian | Site of the Month

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So after a bit of contreversy, the (community) Votes for January's Site of the Month are in! And the winner is.....

BlogBook Review: SilverStripe 2.4 - Module Extension, Themes and Widgets

6 June 2011 | Aram Balakjian | SilverStripe, Review | Supports v2.4

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For a while now the only printed documentation available for SilverStripe has been the official book which, although excellent if you are willing to put the time into completing it, is now slightly outdated having been written for SilverStripe v2.3. Enter a new book written by Phillip Krenn and published by Packt; SilverStripe 2.4 - Module Extension, Themes and Widgets. Despite the slightly misleading title, the book takes you through the entire process of building a relatively complex site for a local bar by extending the core functionality as well as using various Modules and Widgets along the way.

SnippetsAn alternative to _ss_environment Files for easy 'Per Environment' Configuration

9 June 2011 | Pete Bacon Darwin | SiteConfig, Database, Installing | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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Although Silverstripe has a mechanism for alternative configuration per environment, using the ConfigureFromEnv() method in your mysite/_config.php file, it has its limitations and I have often read people complaining about it. Here is a simple yet powerful alternative to using SilverStripe environment files.

BlogJune Site of the Month Winner

4 July 2011 | Aram Balakjian | Site of the Month

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

BlogSite of the Month - Vote Now!

6 January 2012 | Aram Balakjian | Site of the Month

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It's been a while, but Site of the month is finally back and there are some great sites to choose from!

BlogOctober Site of the Month - Vote Now!

11 October 2011 | Aram Balakjian | Site of the Month

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It's time to vote on your favourite of this months 5 SilverStripe website nominations!

TutorialsLeaflet with SS3

19 November 2012 | stallain | JavaScript, SilverStripe 3 | Supports v3.0

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Leaflet is a good open-source alternative to Google Maps. I followed the instructions given in the Leaflet quick start guide (http://leafletjs.com/examples/quick-start.html), with a few adaptations to Silverstripe CMS. No custom icon, no additional layer, no customized css, no fancy feature : only the basic options to plot several locations on an interactive map.

BlogReview - The SilverStripe Book

30 March 2010 | Hilary Boyce | SilverStripe, Review | Supports v2.4

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I’ve recently been working with Silverstripe, which was relatively new to me, so I got the book. This post is a review of the book “Silverstripe. The Complete Guide to CMS Development” by Ingo Schommer and Steven Broschart; I wanted to share my thoughts about this title.

SnippetsDisable Default JavaScript Behaviours

15 February 2010 | Hamish Campbell | Templates, JavaScript | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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By default SilverStripe uses bulky and sometimes unwanted JavaScript libraries to handle form validation and AJAX page commenting features. Often you want to disable this behaviour so you can integrate your own JavaScript code. This is easily achieved with the following two lines in you site configuration file:

SnippetsSelect a theme using a URL parameter

21 December 2009 | Toby Champion | Templates, Themes, URLs

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When I develop SilverStripe sites, I usually get functionality working in the default theme blackcandy before getting it working in the final templates. This way, authors can start adding content and seeing how it looks on the page, and I can get early feedback about the functionality. Also, as a developer I get to see real content in the browser early in the process. So does the designer.

SnippetsHide pages in Sitetree that a user can't edit

15 September 2009 | Howard Grigg | CMS, Security, Site Tree, Member | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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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.