SilverStripe: The Complete Guide to CMS Development [Paperback]

Ingo Schommer (Author), Steven Broschart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 6, 2009 | ISBN-10: 0470681837 | ISBN-13: 978-0470681831 | Edition: 1

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'...an invaluable guide, taking you all the way from installation to creating professional quality websites.' (.net Magazine, March 2010).

From the Back Cover

Design Powerful websites using this definitive guide to the award winning SilverStripe framework.

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 needs. The award-winning PHP5/MySQL-based system saves not only time and nerves for technical users, but also features a straightforward interface that non-technical content authors will find a joy to use.

This guide helps you to:

• Get started with SilverStripe: learn the architecture and usability principles that underpins SilverStripe. Go through the technical requirements and installation process, and learn useful tools for your daily work.

• Learn the CMS: practical examples show you how to use the CMS for managing content, images, documents and forms without technical knowledge. Administrators learn to set up permissions and security groups.

• Develop a custom application: use MVC and other modern design patterns to create concise template markup and well structured, object-oriented PHP code. Let the authors walk you through the creation of an interactive recruitment website as practical example project.

• Extend through clean code and modules: understand how SilverStripe is built on modularity and why 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, performance, multi-page forms and web service APIs ensure that you can build world-class websites.

Product Details

• Paperback: 456 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (October 6, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470681837
• ISBN-13: 978-0470681831
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.9 x 9.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,033,262 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Kick start your SilverStripe experience October 11, 2009

By Heide Janshon

Format:Paperback

The day I first heard of SilverStripe, was also the day that I discovered that a book for SilverStripe was in the works. After a few days of playing with the CMS I definitely wanted to get the book. By shear luck I got in contact with Wiley Publishing and was able to receive a review copy of the book. So hence I'm giving my first impressions here. Now I should mention that I am not a developer, and only an amateur webdesigner. I do have some basic PHP programming skills, and am familiar with the idea of Object Oriented Programming, which, as I discovered, is invaluable for working with this CMS. At this point I'm about half way through the book, and was impressed with the well structured approach. The concepts of the MVC (Model-View-Controller) structure of SilverStripe are explained clearly, and customizing the CMS is at least at its basic level straight forward. I like that every concept explained in the book is tied into an evolving web project, that gets a little more complex with each turn of the page. Again, I'm only half way through the book, and for a seasoned developer some of what is written might be trivial, but for those with limited programming skills this book will put you on the right track.
As a side note, the book does not simply rehash the documentation and tutorials on the official [...] website. It is stand alone and compliments in depth what's already out there. Thanks to the SilverStripe team for this book and for a great CMS.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a good source for Silverstripe November 22, 2009

By P. Moreno

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Well written. Clear and full of usefull informations, that lets you to start creating amazing site with Silverstripe in a moment.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great place to start your experience in SilverStripe -- Building apps in no time November 5, 2009

By N. Ilyin

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This books takes you from 0 - 60 in... well very quickly anyway. For an introductory book, it does a very good job at taking you through everything that you need to know and getting you right into coding and designing a useful application. I very much recommend this book!