Tutorials - Big bits of code to help you do more
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TutorialsDataObjects as Pages - Part 1: Keeping it Simple
4 October 2010 | | | Supports v2.4, v2.3
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In this two part tutorial, I am going to show you how to display DataObjects as if they were pages. This is often very useful for times when you have lots of items that don't warrant full site tree objects, but do need to be displayed on their own on the site. In this first part displaying Staff Members we are going to keep it simple, using a Data Object Manager to manage our Staff Members and referring to their ID in the URL. Later in part 2, we will see how to use ModelAdmin to manage a Search Engine friendly product catalogue.
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TutorialsUsing Translatable to create a Simple Multilingual Site
9 April 2011 | | | Supports v2.4
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I recently had a request to build a multilingual site for an accountant who wanted to enter content in English, Romanian and Russian, and wanted their site visitors to be able to switch languages by clicking on the image of the country flag - and I was pleasantly surprised to learn how quick and easy it is to implement using Silverstripe's Translatable class.
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TutorialsCustom sorting in the CMS SiteTree
14 February 2011 | | | Supports v2.4, v2.3
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Ever wanted to sort some parts of the SiteTree? Well now you can!
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TutorialsMaking a hierarchy aware templating system
21 September 2009 | |
TweetSomething that has been bothering me when building larger sites with SilverStripe is that I often find myself creating new classes not to add functionality, but to just get a new template.
You can set separate templates for different actions manually but that's not what I want in this case, I want different templates for the same action on the same class.
After thinking about this for awhile I came up with a two part solution and the first part is to make the template choosing aware of the Sitetree hierarchy.
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