Simplify Module

This is the initial alpha release of Simplify, a module that allows you to customise the Silverstripe admin interface without any coding, simply by setting security permissions.

Features:

- Simplify the Silverstripe admin, provides an easy way of turning features on and off
- Make your CMS Admin easier to use for non-technical end-users
- Permission based, so you can enable options for some users but not others.
- Over 24 new permissions to fully configure how the admin looks
- Easily add in your own custom Simplify permissions
- Supports i18n of permission descriptions

For a demo of what it can do, check out the attached image and download and try it yourself!
Check out the README file for installation and a Quick Start guide. More docs coming soon...

Just a quick introduction, my name is Daniel Pickering and I'm a web dev. I recently started using Silverstripe and I'm really enjoying using it. However I found that customising the admin interface was not easy - you could do it yourself with CSS, but then it wasn't user specific. So I wrote Simplify, to allow anyone to add or remove bits of the interface.

NOTE: This is an alpha release for testing purposes only - use in a production environment at your own risk.

Any comments, code reviews, critiques, ideas are most welcome.

Please read the README file before using

Hi UncleCheese,

Thanks for your support

Custom permissions are easy, and created like this - say you have a module 'mymodule'

in the module _config.php :

Then all you need to do is create files with the same (but lower case) name as your permission:

mymodule/css/my_perm_stuff.css
mymodule/css/my_perm_more.css

mymodule/javascript/my_perm_stuff.js
mymodule/javascript/my_perm_more.js

and Simplify just picks these up automatically. They're optional, ie; you can only have a CSS if you want.

The 'class_exists' is so you can happily include your own Simplify perms in your module, and if they don't have Simplify installed it doesn't break.

Good idea with the blocking - are you talking about CSS/JS file or SS and PHP files as well?
If you look at the CSS/JS files you'll see I've kept them deliberately simple to reduce conflict.

I'm currently working with Decorators on DataObject and LeftAndMain to actually remove items from the backend before they get to the frontend - meaning its more secure, and we won't need so much CSS and JS

nice work.
you might also be interested in actually clearing undesired pagetypes from the 'create' dropdown, see my hack:
http://open.silverstripe.org/ticket/3987#comment:1

vancouverWill - sure, the power of Simplify is that you can disable as much or as little as you like - I just haven't got to creating permissions for the footer where the user edit link is, but its planned for the future.

If you're talking about a page purely for users to change their password and personal details, that is a little outside of the scope of Simplify. If you want to do that, I'd suggest creating a custom page type to do this.