SilverStripe: The Complete Guide to CMS Development (Wiley)
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‘…an invaluable guide, taking you all the way from installation to creating professional quality websites.’ (.net Magazine, March 2010).
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This is the Official Guide on the award–winning SilverStripe programming framework, authored by the creators of the open source CMS.
SilverStripe is a robust and flexible website content management system (CMS) tightly integrated with an application framework. It is open source and embraces modern system architecture and agile development methodologies. Intermediate developers can implement powerful websites and web–applications quickly and customize them to their individual needs. The award–winning PHP5/MySQL–based system saves not only time and nerves for techies, but also features a straightforward interface which is a joy to use for non–technical content–authors.
This Guide helps you to:
- Get started with SilverStripe: Learn the architecture and usability principles that underpin SilverStripe’s modern approach. Then go through the technical requirements, the installation process, and useful tools for your daily work.
- Learn the CMS: Practical examples show you how to use the CMS as a content author, and how to manage content, images, documents, and forms without technical knowledge. Administrators learn how to set up permissions and security groups.
- Develop a custom application: Use MVC and other modern design patterns to create well–structured, object–oriented PHP code and concise template markup. Let the authors walk you through creating an interactive recruitment website as practical example project.
- Extend through clean code and modules: Understand how SilverStripe is built on modularity and how this empowers you to build plugins and core extensions in an elegant, maintainable fashion.
- Use SilverStripe professionally: In–depth topics on internationalization, security, unit testing, caching, multi–page forms, and web services APIs ensure that you can build world–class websites.
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There was a time when all a web designer needed was a good knowledge of HTML, a bit of JavaScript, and enough knowledge of Photoshop and CSS to make it all look pretty.
Those days are long gone.
The sort of client who can put enough money on the table to allow you to pay for the mortgage, holiday and decent car wants a lot more than the typical '8 page static website and contact form' from 5 years ago.
They want their news page and company blog entries to appear on their facebook wall, and they want a forum that uses the same styling as the main site. Plus they want an online product catalogue with e-commerce capability. Oh, and you'll have to fit in that twice monthly newsletter. And the twitter feed thing needs to go in on a sidebar somewhere. But of course, they won't ask for all those things up front. That would be too easy.
And here's the killer: its got to be all editable and moderated by the client, noting that the client knows only two applications: Word and Powerpoint. Yeah, I know. I feel the pain.
If the client I'm describing is the one that you have to keep turning away because you don't know how to do what they are asking for (or you have to hire that really expensive PHP/MySQL guy to do it, and he just eats up the profits) then you need Silverstripe.
Silverstripe is one of the easiest Content Management Systems out there. It lets you the designer create mid level dynamic websites with ease. You don't need to know much more about PHP and MySQL that you can't pick up in a few evenings of staying away from the pub. You need to know the barest minimum about OOP (because thats all handled in the naming structure). And best of all, that money on the table is all yours.
Or it would be if the only bad thing about Silverstripe wasn't the god awful documentation.
Well, thats no longer a problem. The creators of Silverstripe have brought out this book.
You need it.
Now.
Those days are long gone.
The sort of client who can put enough money on the table to allow you to pay for the mortgage, holiday and decent car wants a lot more than the typical '8 page static website and contact form' from 5 years ago.
They want their news page and company blog entries to appear on their facebook wall, and they want a forum that uses the same styling as the main site. Plus they want an online product catalogue with e-commerce capability. Oh, and you'll have to fit in that twice monthly newsletter. And the twitter feed thing needs to go in on a sidebar somewhere. But of course, they won't ask for all those things up front. That would be too easy.
And here's the killer: its got to be all editable and moderated by the client, noting that the client knows only two applications: Word and Powerpoint. Yeah, I know. I feel the pain.
If the client I'm describing is the one that you have to keep turning away because you don't know how to do what they are asking for (or you have to hire that really expensive PHP/MySQL guy to do it, and he just eats up the profits) then you need Silverstripe.
Silverstripe is one of the easiest Content Management Systems out there. It lets you the designer create mid level dynamic websites with ease. You don't need to know much more about PHP and MySQL that you can't pick up in a few evenings of staying away from the pub. You need to know the barest minimum about OOP (because thats all handled in the naming structure). And best of all, that money on the table is all yours.
Or it would be if the only bad thing about Silverstripe wasn't the god awful documentation.
Well, thats no longer a problem. The creators of Silverstripe have brought out this book.
You need it.
Now.
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This book literally opens the door to making SilverStripe your own. What is a very well written framework and CMS is made clear by this book, and I would recommend it wholeheartedly to anyone wanting to use SilverStripe. I learned more in the first five chapters than from the entire set of online documentation. Brilliantly written, easy to read and understand, and every line of code is explained in full detail.
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I really like this book.
Very well written, and explains everything I need to develop solutions with the Silverstripe CMS.
/Lars T. Hansen - Software Developer
Very well written, and explains everything I need to develop solutions with the Silverstripe CMS.
/Lars T. Hansen - Software Developer
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