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.

SnippetsUsing Dates in Foreign Languages

17 November 2009 | Aram Balakjian | Templates, Languages | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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With all the translatable, i18n and other translation related stuff in silverstripe, I think more than one is wondering how to achieve something simple as using dates in a foreign language... Actually, it's ultra easy if you add this 2 lines in your silverstripe powered website.

SnippetsCreate a CMS Field in 'Page' but not it's Descendants

26 April 2009 | Aram Balakjian |

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Sometimes you may want a field to appear in pages of type Page but not in the other PageTypes which extend Page. To limit a field added via the function getCMSFields() is a simple case of adding an if() statement to test the current pages class.

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) . ")"
                  );

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:

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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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.

SnippetsCreate and use a Permission code

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

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Have you wanted to add an extra permission code that you can add to groups and then use that to test whether a particular user has that permission? Here's how it's done. The permission code it self is added via the Controller class, then you use a permission check anywhere in your site code to check the current user. Like so:

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");
}