What is SilverStripe?

SilverStripe is an open-source content management system (CMS) which is fast becoming a contender to the mainstream CMS's such as Joomla and Drupal. It prides it's self on being easy to use for both developers and content editors as well as giving site designers complete and unrestricted freedom in their designs.

It's build around a PHP framework called Sapphire which was developed by the same company that created the CMS and is consistent with the MVC (Model-View-Controller) programming pattern. This fact, along with the Sapphire framework make customising the CMS a doddle for anyone willing to do a bit of copy and paste coding while also providing enough depth to satisfy even the most seasoned developers.

Where do I Start?

For those new to SilverStripe we recommend starting with the official tutorials which can be found here:

Tutorial 1: Building a basic site
Tutorial 2: Extending a basic site
Tutorial 3: Forms
Tutorial 4: Site Search
Tutorial 5: Relationships
Tutorial 6: Site Map