SilverStripe : The Complete Guide to CMS Development

by Ingo Schommer (SilverStripe Ltd); Steven Broschart (cyberpromote GmbH ); Translated by: Julian Seidenberg

• ISBN13: 9780470711460
• ISBN10: 0470711469
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

About the Authors

About the Translator

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Why SilverStripe?

History

Future

Conclusion

Installation

System Requirements

Preparation

Installation

Useful Software

Database Management

Support

Conclusion

Architecture

Introduction

MVC - Model View Controller

ORM - Object Relational Mapping

Directory Structure

Modules and Widgets

Themes

Configuration

Conclusion

First Steps

Our Project: Job Portal and User Group

Creating the Page Structure

Inserting Page Content

Managing Files and Images

Versioning

Comments

Simple Contact Form

Creating New Users

Themes

Conclusion

Development: Job Postings

Job Categories as a Page Type

Job as a DataObject

Relations Between DataObjects

Creating the Interface

Creating Templates

Custom Forms

Email Notification

Integrating the Blog Module

Search Engine Optimization

Conclusion

CRM

Where are we Headed?

Datamodel

Using ModelAdmin for Data Management

Multi-page Registration Form

Skills as Tags

File Uploads for References

Searching DataObjects

Generic Views Using CollectionController

Defining Access Permissions

Web Services Using RESTfulServer

RSS Feeds for Jobs

Conclusion

Security

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF)

SQL Injection

Directory Traversal

Sessions

Conclusion

Maintenance

Environment Types

Configuration of Multiple Environments

Version Control using Subversion

Backup

Upgrade

Error Handling

Performance

Conclusion

Testing

Test-driven Development

Installing PHPUnit

Running Tests

Unit Tests for the Model

Functional Tests for the Controllers

Conclusion

Localization

Character Sets and Unicode

Translating Templates and Code

Translatable: Translating Database Content

Conclusion

Recipes

Prerequisites

Customizable Page Banner

Branding the CMS Interfaces

Full-text Search for Websites

Redirecting from Legacy URLs

Simple Statistics using TableListField

Showing Related Pages

CSV Import using CSVBulkLoader

A Fully Flash-based Website Driven by SilverStripe

Conclusion

Extending

Different Ways to Extend SilverStripe

Extending Core Functions

Creating Custom Modules

Creating Custom Widgets

Conclusion

Useful Modules

E-commerce

Forum

Gallery

Flickr Service

Youtube Gallery

Spam Protection: Mollom and Recaptcha

Auth_External

Auth_OpenID

Subsites

CMS Workflow

Site-tree Importer

Geospatial Modules

Conclusion

Index

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