Experts:

I am certain this has been discussed before, but I can not find it here. I am just getting started with SS
and so far Tutorial 1 has been great. Now I get to #2 and things become fuzzy.
Running on a site on GoDaddy, so all is pre-installed.

It is not very clear as to where to place the function getCMSFields in the ArticlePage.php code.

I have placed it like this:

<?php
/**
* Defines the ArticlePage page type
*/
class ArticlePage extends Page {
static $db = array(
'Date' => 'Date',
'Author' => 'Text'
);
static $has_one = array(
);

function getCMSFields() {
$fields = parent::getCMSFields();

$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Content.Main', new CalendarDateField('Date'), 'Content');
$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Content.Main', new TextField('Author'), 'Content');
   
return $fields;

}

class ArticlePage_Controller extends Page_Controller {

}

After which I flush and rebuild the db

http://xxx.com/silverstripe/db/build?flush=1

After which in the rebuild output I see:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CLASS, expecting T_FUNCTION

Can one of you experts on SS direct me in the right direction please?
Trying to come up to speed with this and it seems to be a battle to undertand
how this works in comparison to the build the code by hand method.

Thanks so much!
DB_steve

Thanks for looking the code over, however the } is there
just did not get it when I copied the code over to here for posting.

Now here is what I have discovered.

If I save this code and do not rebuild the database AND just refresh the CMS
then create the articleholder page named "news" this works.
Then create the articlepages insode "news" and this works.

Now that this has been accomplished, now rebuild the DB and all is ok, no errors
and the items show up in the draft site as expected.

Just have to get the flow right, which is not very clear at all in the tutorial.

db_steve

<?php
/**
* Defines the ArticlePage page type
*/
class ArticlePage extends Page {
static $db = array(
'Date' => 'Date',
'Author' => 'Text'
);
static $has_one = array(
);

function getCMSFields() {
$fields = parent::getCMSFields();

$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Content.Main', new CalendarDateField('Date'), 'Content');
$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Content.Main', new TextField('Author'), 'Content');
   
return $fields;
}

}

class ArticlePage_Controller extends Page_Controller {

}

?>