- ISBN13: 9780470681831
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
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 customi… More >>
SilverStripe: The Complete Guide to CMS Development
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#1 by Zengarra Country House on June 24, 2010 - 8:27 pm
I had expected help with the very slow speed of the admin side of Silver Stripe, and the file-handling problems of larger numbers of images but got none. The index is also woefully inadequate, e.g. alt-attribute no reference try image no reference. So that’s a no from me
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Benjamin Lopatin on June 24, 2010 - 8:54 pm
Here’s the bottom line up front: The SilverStripe book offers superior re-packaging of existing SilverStripe documentation, but does not go sufficiently beyond what’s already available to make this a “must-have” reference. The fleshed out examples are nice, but the book seems more appropriate to those unfamiliar with SilverStripe or other PHP MVC frameworks.
For example, the search “recipe” included in the book looks little different from the “recipe” available in the online documentation. The authors missed an opportunity to delve deeper into how to extend the search functionality or improve its performance.
System performance is notably missing from the book, and is the one topic which this book *should* have covered. The few pages concerning performance focus solely on front end performance – an important topic, for sure. However I bought the book eagerly anticipating documentation on configuring the CMS to improve performance in the admin area. The admin interface seems to slow down exponentially with site tree growth -the core of the CMS – and the book offers no text to address this issue.
Three (3) stars for well packaged documentation, but two (2) stars in the end for ignoring administrative performance.
Rating: 2 / 5
#3 by S. Szczot on June 24, 2010 - 9:01 pm
The book contains systematic introduction to CMS SilverStripe. Even the basic topics are covered in detail, so there’s practically no need to browse SilverStripe on-line documentation or forums. After reading three chapters you are aware of all the SilverStripe functions, and after another two you can extend it’s already pretty extensive functionality. Last chapter covers the most common design issues and shows the best way to deal with them.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by K. Samulski on June 24, 2010 - 11:33 pm
I am happy with this purchase and it is exactly what i was looking for
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Lars Prakken on June 25, 2010 - 12:40 am
The book is an excellent newbie introduction to Silverstripe. It does a good job of methodically introducing the core principles and concepts behind Silverstripe and Sapphire and is far more accessible than the online documentation.
For experienced users it contains information that is hard(er) to find online (for example on generic views and Requirements merging) and provides a good read (having met on of the authors also makes it fun ..
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Good job Silverstripers !
Rating: 4 / 5