This website documents high-level features of the [SilverStripe open source platform](http://www.silverstripe.org), aimed
at developers.
Please read our [guide to contributing documentation](misc/contributing#writing-documentation) if you want to help out!

### Overview

 * [Getting started](http://silverstripe.org/getting-started/) |
   [CMS Overview](http://www.silverstripe.org/software/cms/) |
   [Framework Overview](http://www.silverstripe.org/software/framework/) |
   [Demo](http://demo.silverstripe.org/) 
 * [Download and Installation](installation/) | [Upgrading](/installation/upgrading) | [Requirements](/installation/server-requirements) | [Changelogs](changelogs) 
 * [API documentation](http://api.silverstripe.org/current) | [Books](http://www.silverstripe.org/learn/resources/books)


###  Getting support

[Forum](http://www.silverstripe.org/forums/) | [IRC channel](https://irc.silverstripe.org) | [End user docs](http://userhelp.silverstripe.com) | [Core mailinglist](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/silverstripe-dev)


### Level 1: Building your first SilverStripe website

 * [Introduction to PHP (codeacademy.com)](https://www.codecademy.com/learn/php)
 *  [Tutorials](tutorials)
   * [Building a basic site](tutorials/building-a-basic-site)
   * [Extending a basic site](tutorials/extending-a-basic-site)
   * [Forms](tutorials/forms)
   * [Site Search](tutorials/site-search)
   * [Relationships](tutorials/dataobject-relationship-management)
 * [Common Problems](installation/common-problems)

### Level 2: SilverStripe fundamentals

*  [Templates](topics/templates): SilverStripe has its own templating engine
*  [Themes](topics/themes): How to customize your site with themes
*  [Controllers](topics/controller): Coordination from a URL-request to finding the controller-class
*  [Pagetypes](topics/page-types): Clarifying the relationship between a page-object and a silverstripe-class
*  [Datamodel](topics/datamodel): Object-relational database model with MVC
*  [Database Structure](reference/database-structure): Breakdown of a typical SilverStripe database
*  [Datatypes](topics/data-types): Casting database-columns
*  [Forms](topics/forms): Sophisticated form generation and processing
*  [Formfield Types](reference/form-field-types): Simple and complex form-elements with built-in validation
*  [Javascript](topics/javascript)
*  [Widgets](topics/widgets)
*  [Modules](topics/modules)
*  [Configuration](topics/configuration)

### Level 3: The less obvious features

*  [Security](topics/security)
*  [Email](topics/email)
*  [RSS Feeds](reference/rssfeed)
*  [Debugging](topics/debugging)
*  [Errorhandling](topics/error-handling)
*  [Testing Guide](topics/testing/): Framework for automated testing like Unittests
*  [Built-in Page Controls](reference/built-in-page-controls)
*  [Execution Pipeline](reference/execution-pipeline): Tracking a request from director to template-rendering
*  [Recipes/Howtos](howto/)

### Level 4: Contributing to the SilverStripe core

* [Contributing](http://www.silverstripe.org/contributing-to-silverstripe/)
* [Coding Conventions](misc/coding-conventions)