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Re: Form field types | Reference | Sapphire | SilverStripe Documentation

chillu — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:20:35 -0000

Re: Templates upgrading guide - Reference - Sapphire - SilverStripe Documentation

chillu — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:18:44 -0000

That's outdated info (I've just updated the docs). We've readded it through SSViewer_BasicIteratorSupport.

Re: Templates upgrading guide - Reference - Sapphire - SilverStripe Documentation

Xannax Prozaxx — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:17:34 -0000

You are joking? These iterator-specific keywords were the best feature about Silverstripe templates! A lot, I mean, all of my themes, in every single page, in every single site depend on these. They are very useful. What's the rationale? It makes for better separation of concerns, granted, but best practices only hold for as long as they make your life better. Without thse sort of helpers, I'd rather use plain PHP in my templates, if all I am allowed to do is simply access member variables and create loop constructs. Imho you are going the wrong way,making the same error as smarty: building a complex language on top of a templating language (php) that in effect removes almost nothing from the complexity of the original one.
I don't mean to bash, I am a SS advocate and admirer, but this is one decision that baffles me.

Re: Phpunit configuration | Howto | Sapphire | SilverStripe Documentation

Bojan — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:18:21 -0000

In case you are trying to set up PHPUnit to use SQLite using the suggestion on this page, <var name="test_database" value="sqlite3"> can be retrieved in your _config.php with $GLOBALS['test_database'], not @$_GET['test_database']

</var>

Re: Extending a basic site | Tutorials | Sapphire | SilverStripe Documentation

Prokop Toman — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:35:46 -0000

Looks like it somehow ignores published/unpublished status if I am not mistaken...

Re: Dataobject relationship management | Tutorials | Sapphire | SilverStripe Documentation

Rob Sheldrake — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:50:01 -0000

Nothing on linking between datasets on the front end? :(

Re: Extending a basic site | Tutorials | Sapphire | SilverStripe Documentation

Rob Sheldrake — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:23:03 -0000

In the breakdown of changes it says:
$dateField->setConfig('showCalendar', true);

This will stop the date picker from showing if the user follows this instead of the original code block. As I wanted to learn what was going on rather than copy & paste chunks of code, I used this example and got stuck for 20 mins.

It should read:$dateField->setConfig('showcalendar', true);- with a lower cased "c"

Re: Common problems | Installation | Sapphire | SilverStripe Documentation

Rob Sheldrake — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:51:02 -0000

Just installed Silverstripe for the first time and encountered an issue and thought I'd share my fix... both to help anyone who has the same issue and hopefully have the developers correct the issue as it's quite a simple fix.

After installing I received a "500 Internal Server Error"

I tracked down the issue quite quickly to the .htaccess URL rewriting.

The issue occurred because the local folder I installed Silverstripe into had a space in the folder name. Unfortunately the .htaccess is not generated in a way to deal with the spaces.

Open up the .htaccess in the root folder and find the following line:

RewriteBase /Your Folder Name

Change this lilne by adding single quotes around the folder name like so:

RewriteBase '/Your Folder Name'

Hope it helps someone.

Re: Rssfeed | Reference | Sapphire | SilverStripe Documentation

Mike — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:56:53 -0000

It's also good to add a tag in the header and format your rss feed appropriately (in this case xml) e.g.

// allows url for /rss
static $allowed_actions = array(
'rss'
);

// includes rss function in page
function init() {
RSSFeed::linkToFeed($this->Link('rss'),"Latest News in the " . $this->Parent()->Title . " Section");
parent::init();
}

//list of children in rss feed
function rss() {
$rss = new RSSFeed(
$this->Children(),
$this->Link('rss'),
"Latest News in the " . $this->Parent()->Title . " Section"
);

// add link in header using xml content type
$this->response->addHeader('Content-type','application/xml');
$rss->outputToBrowser();
}

Re: Extending a basic site | Tutorials | Sapphire | SilverStripe Documentation

willrossi — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:27:10 -0000

PHP close tags are optional. We recommend you do not include them.

Re: Complextablefield | Reference | Sapphire | SilverStripe Documentation

Wolf Vollprecht — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:19:31 -0000

The source code in the first example-box is wrong -- you have to specify an associative array for the column headers like in the example below. Otherwise there pops some array error up.

Re: Form field types | Reference | Sapphire | SilverStripe Documentation

bevel — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:52:46 -0000

Pissing me off right now. So much broken documentation.

What's that... "but the api is automatically documented - it's always up to date" ...i hear them whine - yes but that only documents individual methods which provides a very different job to documenting a package.

Don't get me wrong - MVC in SS is great. But their crappy documentation often makes a simple task become a nightmare involving hours of trawling forums of posts from other users complaining of the same problem with some solution that involves hacking your way through javascript and PHP - only to find out that it's a fix that no longer works.

SS is utterly let down by it's documentation. It would be better if most of it wasn't even there - it's one wild goose chase after another. I'm only using it cos my clients are used to it, however I'm urging them to drop it.

Re: Extending a basic site | Tutorials | Sapphire | SilverStripe Documentation

Matze — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:47:56 -0000

Why is there a PHP-Close-Tag in ArticleHolder.php and ArticlePage.php but not in Page.php, StaffPage.php and Staffholder.php ?

Re: Theme development | Topics | Sapphire | SilverStripe Documentation

willrossi — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:59:57 -0000

In this example it is hardcoded but you could use $SiteConfig.Title to make it dynamic.

Re: Dataobjectset | Reference | Sapphire | SilverStripe Documentation

Derralf — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:41:35 -0000

$mySet->getOffset(10);does not return multiple elements ($startingFromTen) but the ONE object after object no. 10

Re: Theme development | Topics | Sapphire | SilverStripe Documentation

Max_allan — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 08:54:04 -0000

I'm confused why you need to include the name "Bob's Chicken Shack" in your theme. Doesn't that mean that everyone using that theme will either be editing the theme files or called "Bob's Chicken Shack" ? Why doesn't it use some sort of variable to pull the name of the site from what I defined in the CMS?

And, just above "CSS Files" you've got a link for Templates which goes to :
http://doc.silverstripe.org/sa...
Which takes me to :
We're sorry…The page you are looking for does not exist, or might have moved.

Re: Mac osx | Installation | Sapphire | SilverStripe Documentation

Mayellealvarado — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:15:18 -0000

Thank you Francisco, but one more thing. The only link I've got to install SiverStripe is:

http://localhost:8888/silverstripe/

Yet, it doesn't work. All i get is:

"Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost:8888."

How do i do to install Silverstripe now?

Mayelle

Re: Mac osx | Installation | Sapphire | SilverStripe Documentation

francisco arenas — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:49:02 -0000

mamp pro has an special menu called file/edit template
there you can edit the amount of ram assigned to php
the regular mamp doesn't have that menu.

Francisco

El viernes 2 de marzo de 2012 a las 14:36, Disqus escribió:

Re: Mac osx | Installation | Sapphire | SilverStripe Documentation

Mayellealvarado — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:08:40 -0000

Hello,

the following url is not working:
http://localhost:8888/silverstripe/
How do I install SilverStripe on my MAC then?

Thank you in advance for your reply

Mayelle

Re: Mac osx | Installation | Sapphire | SilverStripe Documentation

mayelle — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:58:27 -0000

Hello. I've just installed MAMP, but I don't find the way to do this:

Open up /Applications/MAMP/conf/PHP5/php.ini and make the following configuration changes: memory_limit = 64MI mean: i went to Applications, then MAMP, then conf, but I don't find PHP5 nor php.ini file.I did a file search, but only found php.ini file, and when I double clicked on it the first time I got an error. I tried double clicking again, but nothing else happened.Is it important to set up a memory limit of 64M? If so, is there another way to do it? I'm a newbie and I'm trying to figure out how all this works. Furthermore, when selecting the PHP version, under preferences, I get to choose between: 5.2.17 and 5.3.6. Is this relevant?Thank you in advance for your assistanceMayeli

Re: Grid field - Topics - Sapphire - SilverStripe Documentation

Normann Lou — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:50:28 -0000

the Form constructor in the sample code should be:
new Form($this, "MemberForm", new FieldSet($field), new FieldSet());
rather thannew Form("MemberForm", $this, new FieldSet($field), new FieldSet());

Re: Windows manual iis 7 | Installation | Sapphire | SilverStripe Documentation

The Toad — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:59:13 -0000

Where it says "Open a browser and point it to http://localhost/ss24" it should say Open a browser and point it to http://localhost/2.4

Re: Versioned | Reference | Sapphire | SilverStripe Documentation

Gavin bruce — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:37:01 -0000

This would actually send an email after a Page has been published, not just a blog page. It should be

class BlogPage extends Page

Re: Forms | Tutorials | Sapphire | SilverStripe Documentation

Jürg — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:49:35 -0000

Maybe this should be mentioned in the tutorial:
if you have a $allowed_actions array in your controller, you have to add the Form name (in this case "BrowserPollForm") to the array, otherwise the Form is displayd but the submission will fail!

Re: Staticpublisher | Reference | Sapphire | SilverStripe Documentation

Johannes — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:07:28 -0000

Using the example code didn't work for me, had to change line 13.
Instead of SiteTree elements, I get Page elements to make it work.

$pages = DataObject::get("SiteTree");
should be:
$pages = DataObject::get("Page");