Blog

• News

• • Submit your own snippets directly to SSBits!
  • SilverStripe London Feature Talk, Nov 4th

• CSS

• • An Example CSS Framework

• jQuery

• • jQuery Expanding Menu Plugin

• SilverStripe

• • 10 Super Useful SilverStripe Documentation Pages
  • Review: The SilverStripe Book

• Javascript

Tutorials

• Security

• • Custom Login Form with Group Based Redirection

• templates

• • 2.4 - Using Short Codes to embed a YouTube video
  • Display DataObjects in an SEO friendly way
  • Using SilverStripe URL Parameters to display DataObjects on a page
  • Embedding YouTube or Vimeo inside your Text-Content using a custom 'TextParser'
  • Embed flash content using SWFObject
  • Web 2.0 Mirrored Images
  • Create a Static, CMS editable sidebar
  • Detecting Mobile Browsers to Re-Theme Your Site

• Themes

• • Building a Theme from a Static Template

• CMS

• • 2.4 - Working with SiteConfig
  • Adding a CMS action the (slightly) hacky way

• Forms

• • Adding Fields to Page Comments
  • Creating a Simple Contact Form
  • Using jQuery for form validation

Snippets

• Templates

• • Controlling the order of CSS includes
  • Automatically ?flush when in 'dev' mode
  • Select a theme using a URL parameter
  • Using a Print Stylesheet
  • Using dates in foreign Languages
  • Extending $LinkingMode to handle controller actions
  • Making a hierarchy aware templating system
  • Using a Thickbox Modal Window with AJAX
  • Create a front end theme switcher
  • Resizing an image in a custom <img> tag
  • Working with banners
  • Create an 'Edit this Page' link
  • Manipulating every Nth item in a <% control %> loop
  • Creating Previous and Next Buttons on a page
  • Clearing the Search field on click with jQuery

• Permissions

• • Create a Permission Code
  • Using canCreate(), canEdit(), canDelete() and canPublish() to manage page type permissions

• CMS menus

• • Spice up your CMS Sitetree!
  • Hide pages in Sitetree that a user can't edit
  • Dynamically Generating a Dropdown List
  • Create a Field in 'Page' but not it's Decendents
  • Customising the WYSYWIG editor in v2.3.2 (TinyMCE)
  • Change the CMS "Help" Link
  • Adding a Thumbnail to a DataObjectManager or Complex Table Field
  • Removing an Item From the Main CMS Menu
  • Autofill MetaDescription and MetaKeywords on page save

• miscellaneous

• • A _config.php Cheatsheet
  • Using other systems together with Silverstripe
  • Extend Meta description beyond 255 character limit
  • Add Syntax Highlighting to the SS Forums
  • Creating a Page Export Function
  • Overriding Silverstripes language files with your own
  • Dynamic Year Function

• Errors

• • Get Errors E-mailed to you

• Widgets

• • Check to see if a widget area has any widgets

• Database Retrievals

• • Database Configuration Management
  • getting objects from multiple child pages
  • Using @import in your _config.php for Live site Database Details
  • Displaying Fields From a Set of Pages on Another Page

• security

• • Securing your site
  • How to access your admin account when you've forgotten the password

• forms

• • Customise buttons in userforms module
  • Customize the Redirect after a successful Member Login
  • Disable Default JavaScript Behaviours
  • Add attachments to Silverstripe Form submissions