Hey,

I've been hunting a round for something to get my foot in the door.

Can someone help me work out how to use my own classes or other classes (e.g something from phpclasses.org) in my silverstripe modules?

Even a quick outline of whats required is fine, I don't need exact details :)

Cheers.

Hiya,

You can use them just as you would any other class and then simply 'require' them and use as normal, ie:

require './external_class.php';

class NewPage_Controller extends Page_Controller {

function init() {
 $external = new ExternalClass();
 $external->doSomething();
 return $this;
}

Or if you put the code in your mysite folder (well any module folder) SS will automatically include the PHP class for you as long as its somewhere in the app.

Eg if you have someclass.php in mysite/code/ you can straight away reference that class without any require lines.

Awesome, thanks for being so helpful. I'll give it a shot!