silverstripe-framework/docs/en/index.md

This website documents high-level features of the SilverStripe open source platform, aimed at developers. Please read our guide to contributing documentation if you want to help out!

Overview

• Getting started | [Feature Overview] http://silverstripe.org/introduction/ | Demo
• Download and Installation | Upgrading | Requirements | [Changelog] http://open.silverstripe.org/wiki/ChangeLog | [Roadmap] http://open.silverstripe.com/roadmap
• API documentation | [Official english book] http://www.silverstripe.org/silverstripe-book | [Official german book] http://www.silverstripe.org/das-silverstripe-buch

Getting support

Forum | IRC channel | End user docs | Core mailinglist

Level 1: Building your first SilverStripe website

• [Introduction to PHP5 (zend.com)] http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/627
• Tutorials
• Building a basic site
• Extending a basic site
• Forms
• Site Search
• Relationships
• Common Problems

Level 2: SilverStripe fundamentals

• Templates: SilverStripe has its own templating engine
• Themes: How to customize your site with themes
• Controllers: Coordination from a URL-request to finding the controller-class
• Pagetypes: Clarifying the relationship between a page-object and a silverstripe-class
• Datamodel: Object-relational database model with MVC
• Database Structure: Breakdown of a typical SilverStripe database
• Datatypes: Casting database-columns
• Forms: Sophisticated form generation and processing
• Formfield Types: Simple and complex form-elements with built-in validation
• Javascript
• Widgets
• Modules
• Configuration

Level 3: The less obvious features

• Security
• Email
• RSS Feeds
• Debugging
• Errorhandling
• Testing Guide: Framework for automated testing like Unittests
• Built-in Page Controls
• Execution Pipeline: Tracking a request from director to template-rendering
• Recipes/Howtos

Level 4: Contributing to the SilverStripe core

• Contributing
• Coding Conventions

Looking for the old DokuWiki installation? See [doc.silverstripe.org/old] `http://doc.silverstripe.org/old`.