SnippetsSpice up Your CMS Sitetree

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

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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!

SnippetsCustomise Form Actions to use the <button> tag

12 June 2010 | Barry Keenan | Forms

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By Default, SilverStripe uses the <input type="submit"> tag for it's form actions. However, sometimes you may want to use the <button> tag to give you a little more control over styling. This snippet shows you how, as well as giving you code to achieve the same thing in UserForms!

SnippetsUsing a Password Validator

18 October 2010 | Aram Balakjian | Security, Forms, Login

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The Password Validator allows you to set particular criteria for your members passwords. For example if you wanted to have a minimum length of 8 characters and contain lowercase and uppercase characters, well that's a simple case of adding a couple of lines to your _config.php file!

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.

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':

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.

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.

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.

SnippetsGet errors e-mailed to you

24 March 2009 | Aram Balakjian | Errors, Email | Supports v2.4

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If your site is live it means you are probably not getting errors reported in the view, so it's handy to have them emailed to you so you can still debug and also be notified if something is up.

Add this line to your mysite/_config.php file and expect some mail!

SS_Log::add_writer(new SS_LogEmailWriter('me@mydomain.com'), SS_Log::ERR);

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.

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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