Tutorials - Big bits of code to help you do more
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TutorialsRegistering Users and allowing them to edit their details
20 December 2010 | |
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These days many sites require users to register to get full functionality (SSbits included!). This is something that although not avaiable out of the box in SilverStripe is quite strait forward and a great way to gain a better understanding of both the Member and Form systems. In this tutorial we are going to create a simple registration form and a page for users to then edit their details.
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TutorialsWorking with Site Config
19 April 2010 | | | Supports v2.4
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One of the great new features of 2.4 is the introduction of a Site Config page. This allows you to put all of those fields which are not page related, such as The sites title, root access permissions and even the current theme. The SiteConfig class is simply a dataobject and so can easily be extended to include fields, relationships and functions which you can then access from anywhere in your site.
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TutorialsQuick & Easy Google Analytics with SiteConfig
24 November 2010 | | | Supports v2.4
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Many people need a way to monitor their website, and while it's pretty easy to add the code to a SilverStripe template, or even the basic Page_Controller, I thought I would show how I modularized and made it accessible from the SiteConfig area of the CMS.
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TutorialsAdding an image to a blog post using Decorators and the SilverStripe Blog Module
31 May 2011 | | | Supports v2.4, v2.3
TweetThe Silverstripe blog module is great and its made its way into many of my Silverstripe sites. However, for most designers it is missing one vital aspect; an image field for each post. In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to quickly add an image to the blog module without editing any of it's files, allowing hassle free upgrading in future.
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TutorialsSetting and displaying custom messages in your site
31 October 2011 | | | Supports v2.4
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There is a method on SilverStripe's Form class to set a success or error message when the form is submitted. That's cool... but sometimes you need to display a message that is not related to a form. I've created a couple of simple controller methods to enable setting and displaying of message banners anytime.
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TutorialsRotating and Greyscaling Images using GD and Decorators
8 December 2010 | | | Supports v2.4
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Some of you might have noticed that SilverStripe's GD class has a couple of interesting looking functions, namely rotate($angle) and greyscale($Red, $Green, $Blue). However it was never quite clear how to use these functions (at least not to me anyway!). So after a bit of trial and error, it turns out it's pretty simple to achieve by decorating the image class and adding a couple of simple functions...
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TutorialsAdding a CMS action
1 September 2009 | | | Supports v2.4, v2.3
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If like me you cannot figure out how on earth to use the updateCMSActions() function in a decorator and you also can't get the getCMSActions() function to find your custom method inside the controller then here is a way to make it work, which will allow you to create custom actions and buttons to trigger those actions within the CMS.
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