I've been a Scout Leader for a few years now and the District I work within have very little by way of internet presence. As a bit of a pet project I started building a simple Scout based website for them to use. Its nothing too fancy, I created a simple module and theme for … Continue reading Free Open Source Website for Scouts
Tag: silverstripe
Disabling Cache in Silverstripe 3.1
While working with Silverstripe we found ourselves having to run "?flush=1" a lot to clear the Cache. To switch it off, while you work, add the following to your mysite/_config.php: SS_Cache::set_cache_lifetime('default', -1, 100);
Creating Custom Routes in Silverstripe 3.1
We wanted to create a Route to our custom Products Controller in our products module for SilverStripe 3.1, such as: "http://www.examplesite.com/products/<product-slug>" However looking at the Controller Documentation it was not clear how to create a route without an Action being supplied. In our example above the action is not specified, as we just want to … Continue reading Creating Custom Routes in Silverstripe 3.1
Set up SilverStripe 3.1 using only Git (No Composer)
We recently tried to use composer to set up SilverStripe 3.1, but ended up with a dependency nightmare. In order to work around this we decided to make use of Git submodules. First set up your Git repository and run: git init Next set up a site directory for the code inside your Git repository. … Continue reading Set up SilverStripe 3.1 using only Git (No Composer)