…dev, tech problems and solutions.
Since the Silverstripe-Developer Bookmarklets on ssbits.com are great,
i thought it would be even better to have them as a editable/extendable collection:
So here are some more as a JSFiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/HMkad/2/embedded/result/ Continue reading “more Silverstripe bookmarklets”
SilverStripe 3.0.x cheap trick of the week:
If you want to rename a menu item in the SilverStripe Admin Area, because f.e. you find “Security” or “Sicherheit”(since we are german ;)) a too harsh wording and you prefer “Members” or “Benutzer”:
simply override the translation!
Add a lang folder in your project folder and add the language file:
de.yml or en.yml and place your wording:
de:
SecurityAdmin:
MENUTITLE: Benutzer
This is a little bookmarklet generator i put together this morning:
http://jsfiddle.net/QMeuV/1/embedded/result/ Continue reading “JSfiddle Bookmarklet Generator with jQuery & Codemirror”
A common site type that we build are portfolio pages
which mostly get filled once in the beginning and then only periodically, rather rarely.
They also have almost never User interaction from the Frontend.
So we consider them as almost “readonly” sites.
These sites you can easily speed up “dramatically” with the SilverStripe builtin StaticPublisher.
The tweaks you need for this are moderate to easy.
You can read the Docs to get a glimpse of what is possible.
I will just describe the basic setup to make a site static.
Continue reading “SilverStripe speed up Portfolio Sites with Static Publisher”
mashcloud.net is an experiment on collaborative realtime audio editing and music creation.
I did the project within the frame of my BA thesis in audio production last year.
As I moved the code to github this week, I wanted to give a quick overview of the project and its technical underlyings, just in case someone might be interested :)
Continue reading “mashcloud.net – mashup soundcloud audio tracks”
Silverstripe Tip of the week:
Sometimes you have to remove a customScript of a module, because you want to script it differently.
If the module author was so wise to give his customScript a ID (UserFormsValidation in this case) like they did in UserForms:
Requirements::customScript(<<<JS
(function($) {...})(jQuery);
JS
, 'UserFormsValidation');
then you can do the following in the init function of your subclass controller:
Requirements::block('UserFormsValidation');
Easy, isnt it?
Silverstripe Tip of the Week:
If you want to open a “Other website URL” Link of a RedirectorPage in a new window with target=_blank, you can use the following snippet:
<% if ExternalURL %> <a href="$ExternalURL" class="external" target="_blank">$MenuTitle.XML</a> <% else %> <a href="$Link">$MenuTitle.XML</a> <% end_if %>
Edit:
Or this one:
<% if is_a(RedirectorPage) %><% if RedirectionType = External %>target="_blank"<% end_if %><% end_if %>
found here: http://www.silverstripe.org/general-questions/show/9600
Hope it Helps!
Did you ever wonder how to enable 3rd party plugins (or so called “frameworks“) within the great compass toolset managed by assetic in your edgy symfony 2.1 project?
(If there is more extensive documentation available concerning assetic + CompassFilter, please stop reading on and let me know!)
If you take a look at the filter class itself (it is CompassFilter in the generic Assetic\Filter namespace), you should recognise several option values that you can use in your application wide config.yml file.
But first you have to install the framework plugin following these instructions.
Ever wanted to create a Google XML Image Sitemap?
This is how it could be done with PHP: Continue reading “Create Google XML (Image) Sitemaps in PHP”
Actually i was a fan of YAML regarding the configuration files of Symfony2.
This was probably because i was used to it since symfony 1.4 and i also thought its better readable.
Its partly still true, but my Netbeans Editor has some problems with using @ in YAML and this breaks my highlighting.
So the better readability vanished to nirvana.
So i checked out XML configuration. Its also widely used by the community.
Pros and Cons (mostly Pros) you can read in this post by Fabien.