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.

SnippetsClearing the Search field on click with jQuery

5 August 2009 | Aram Balakjian | Templates, Forms, JavaScript

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As with everything, it's attention to detail that makes great sites. One thing that really bugs me is when a site has a search box with the word 'search' inside it but which does not clear it self when clicked, meaning I have to clear it before I can search. Given it can be achieved with a few lines of jQuery, it's a real surprise how many sites fail to implement this, or that still use the 'onclick' inline javascript event. 

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');

SnippetsResizing and Manipulating Images

22 March 2009 | Aram Balakjian | Images, Templates | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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You can resize images from within the template very easily. But sometimes you need to resize it and just use the URL value, something you can't do by calling the resize on the variable directly (e.g. $Image.CroppedImage(200,200)). This is how we would create a cropped resize of it and still be able to use just the URL, allowing a custom <img> tag.

SnippetsPreventing malicious SQL injections

12 March 2010 | Daniel Hensby | Security, DataObjects, Database | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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PHP has a very shallow learning curve, it's free and anyone can have a go at making a website by following a few tutorials and implementing their experience with other languages. However, coding for the web can be a risky business, especially with dynamic websites that take some kind of user (or external) input and use that to get data from a database.

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:

SnippetsSpice up Your CMS Sitetree

27 August 2009 | Martijn van Nieuwenhoven | CMS, Images, Site Tree | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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SnippetsCreating a Page Export Function

6 May 2009 | Hamish Campbell | Templates, URLs | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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Need to create an 'export' function for a page? Do it quickly and cleanly with HTTP::sendFileToBrowser. In your page controller, add a new action 'export':

SnippetsOverriding Silverstripes language files with your own

28 October 2009 | Marcus Dalgren | Translations, Languages

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In my most recent project I've had to run a site in another language (Swedish) and run into some issues which I thought I'd share with all of you. Now Silverstripe probably comes with a translation for your language but even if it does, you probably want to change the wording of some of the phrases, so what to do? You could of course hit up the language files for the relevant module or the ones in cms and sapphire but you really don't want to touch these files if you can help it.

SnippetsHow to access your admin account when you've forgotten the password

22 August 2009 | dalesaurus | Security, Member, Login

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SnippetsManipulating every Nth item in a <% control %> loop

16 July 2009 | Aram Balakjian | DataObjects, Templates | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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Often you will want to manipulate every nth item inside a <% control %> loop. For example say you had a gallery and you wanted every 3rd image to start on a new line, you need to be able to test each item from the template to see if it is divisible by 3 and should therefore have the clear CSS class added to it.

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.

SnippetsExtending $LinkingMode to handle controller actions

20 October 2009 | Marcus Dalgren |

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As some of you might have noticed, as soon as you step outside of the standard SiteTree structure you're pretty much on your own. Today I had to make a menu that mixed normal SiteTree pages and controller actions.

SnippetsSilverStripe developer bookmarklets

2 April 2012 | Jono Menz | CMS, SilverStripe | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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Here are some handy dynamic bookmarklets for your browser for one click access to things like rebuilding the database, flushing the cache and accessing the CMS!