Re: UserForms problem?

Lemonie — Fri, 25 May 2012 00:12:25 +1200

Am a bit confused as am a newbie. I have all the fields with rules to hide and show on the actual form. It is on the submission that it is showing lots of blank fields. Am not sure how to do what you are explaining?

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Re: UserForms problem?

Silverfish — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:08:44 +1200

Sure.

On creating the form you could just check for each field if there's a value for it and the decide wether to create / display this field or not.

Regards
SF

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Re: Performance for Large Sites (My Little Performance Test)

Silverfish — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:03:21 +1200

Hi,

interesting topic!

4. Is there anything I can push the performance to be better?

Did you install X-Cache like recommended on http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/installation/server-requirements?
If not yet it would be great t know in the difference for your test before and after.
Same question for Mysql Cache http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/query-cache.html? Is this one recmommended by SilverStripe, btw.?

Regards
SF

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Re: Simple Demo App

rando — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:04:51 +1200

Thanks.

Here's what I got from the readme file:

Requirements
-----------------------------------------------
At least SilverStripe 2.3
Requires SpamProtectionModule
Requires ReCaptchaModule
Requires DataObjectManager
Optional PHPCaptcha module

I was able to find DataObjectManager in the Modules section of the website, and ReCaptchaModule as well, but it wasn't clear which versions of SS they were compatible with. I couldn't find PHPCaptcha or SpamProtectionModule.

Thanks for the reply in any case.

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UserForms problem?

Lemonie — Thu, 24 May 2012 11:56:59 +1200

I have created a form and included rules. Currently all the options are shown when the form is submitted even though they are blank and the user has never seen them from their selection. How can I stop this?

Also I would like to process the data. So each time a record is entered with a reference number it goes to that separate record.

Can somebody point me in the right direction .. please???

Edited from: Is there a way to just show fields that have been filled in in the submitted section of the site. I have a form with rules and only want the relevant questions which have been answered shown?

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Re: Performance for Large Sites (My Little Performance Test)

swaiba — Thu, 24 May 2012 11:00:51 +1200

Hi suntrop,

nice work!

1. What about if there are more fields for the pages (about 15 fields for images, simple checkboxes and other
HTML text)? Does it make loading back-end slower, or will SS load the content not until I click on a specific page?

give it a go, I'd love to see more performance stats!

2. What do I need to consider as well? I am fairly new to sites in this scale.

I'd look into http://www.ssbits.com/tutorials/2010/dataobjects-as-pages-part-1-keeping-it-simple/

3. Should I think of building a module instead of pages (the site is more like a catalogue)?

Could look into using something like silvercart and then removing the ecommerce part (e.g. buy now button)

4. Is there anything I can push the performance to be better?

better server?

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Re: Simple Demo App

swaiba — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:55:26 +1200

I've never heard of "DataObjectModule" maybe you mean "DataObjectManager"? But then I don't see that requirement on here http://www.silverstripe.org/simple-guestbook-module/

I generally stick to browsing github in order to get versions of modules - mainly because they are more frequently updated (remember all the silverstripe code is actually on github) also you are morelikely to get in contact with the module owner through that than here on the forum.

And you are quite right module listings on this site (and management in general) requires improvement - and it is getting that improvement right now - http://www.silverstripe.org/2012-google-summer-of-code-students-and-projects-announced/

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Performance for Large Sites (My Little Performance Test)

suntrop — Thu, 24 May 2012 09:25:24 +1200

Hi there. I am using SS since two years and most of the sites I made with it are less than 100 pages per site.

Currently I am facing a larger site starting with ~1,000 pages and perhaps growing up to 3K or more. I read a lot of the other postings about large sites here. Many are helpful but the majority is for old versions of SS.

Thus I tested SS on my local machine with 3,000 pages each filled with 500 characters for the content (that's roughly what the text content will be). SiteTree looks like this:
Home
About
Sub1
-Sub1.1 (holds 100 pages)
-Sub1.2 (holds 100 pages)
-Sub1.3 (holds 150 pages)
-Sub1.4 (holds 150 pages)
-Sub1.5 (holds 150 pages)
-Sub1.6 (holds 150 pages)
-Sub1.7 (holds 150 pages)
-Sub1.8 (holds 150 pages)
-Sub1.9 (holds 150 pages)
-Sub1.10 (holds 200 pages)
-Sub1.11 (holds 200 pages)
-Sub1.12 (holds 200 pages)
-Sub1.13 (holds 200 pages)
-Sub1.14 (holds 200 pages)
-Sub1.15 (holds 200 pages)
-Sub1.16 (holds 200 pages)
-Sub1.17 (holds 200 pages)
Top2
Top3
(…)
Top99
Top100
Contact

Loading the back-end (Pages) will take about 9 seconds. Opening subfolders takes about 6 seconds. Pretty fast, in my opinion.

My question now …
1. What about if there are more fields for the pages (about 15 fields for images, simple checkboxes and other HTML text)? Does it make loading back-end slower, or will SS load the content not until I click on a specific page?
2. What do I need to consider as well? I am fairly new to sites in this scale.
3. Should I think of building a module instead of pages (the site is more like a catalogue)?
4. Is there anything I can push the performance to be better?

Hope some of you can help and give me some answers or hints.
Thanks!
- suntrop -

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Simple Demo App

rando — Thu, 24 May 2012 09:19:06 +1200

I wanted to try to get a simple SS demo up up and running, just to get a feel for the CMS. I installed SS 2.4.7 successfully, however in reading the requirements for the Simple Guestbook, it lists SpamProtectionModule, ReCaptchaModule, DataObjectModule, and PHPCaptcha module. I decided to start out trying to locate them with a keyword search in the modules section, and none were found. Then I just started with the first one in the alphabet "DataObjectModule", and I can't find that one either.

I suspect I may have made a bad call when I decided to try out SS. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this looks like yet another half-baked CMS, not quite ready for prime time. I'd like to make it work, but not if the basic development infrastructure isn't there.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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Transferring post data between templates

Yokelassence — Thu, 24 May 2012 02:17:40 +1200

Hi, I'm starting out on Silverstripe and for starters I want to do something simple: construct a form on one template (call it menu.ss) then display the results you choose on another template (call it order.ss) but I'm having trouble figuring this out

My form is standard fare:

$fields = [array of fields]

$actions = new FieldSet(
new FormAction('order', 'Place Order')
);

return new Form($this, 'order', $fields, $actions);

I thought I could use this to load a separate template for the forms post data but this just gives me a blank screen

function order($data, $form) {
return $this->customise(array('data' => $data))->renderWith('order');
}

I'm sure there is a simple way to get Silvertripe to display post data to a seperate template. What have I overlooked?

I searched beforehand but I couldn't find a viable answer

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Re: Have a page as the rendering page for a specific DataObject but without a route to the page

johannes — Wed, 23 May 2012 20:39:08 +1200

Yesterday I worked on a project and I'm using one Page to list items and show the detail view. I don't use DataObjectAsPages, but it's a similar approach.

I added the following code to the method fetching the data for the detail view:

$data = DataList::create('MyDataObject')->filter('URLSegment', $url_segment)->first();

if ($data) {
return $this->renderWith(array('CustomTemplate', 'Page'), $data);
} else {
return array();
}

Maybe this works for you too.

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onclick for a tags with TinyMCE

datack — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:09:43 +1200

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to allow onclick to be added to links with the TintMCE editor. I've tried all sorts of things to get it to work and and can add in tags that weren't previously allowed, such as iframes, but I can't seem to get the a tags onclick to not be stripped out.

Surely this is quite a common thing and I'm guessing a very easy fix. Just no idea how to do it! I'm using 2.4.7 by the way.

Cheers,
Duncan

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Re: SS and linking to other systems on your hosting.

Kiwipearls — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:50:00 +1200

Hi thank you for pointing me in the right direction. It is all gobbly gook to me. So I will just make sure I type in the full url to where I need my visitors to go for now as that seems easiest for me.

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How to find code property for groups

nmshah — Wed, 23 May 2012 09:44:26 +1200

In the security section of silverstripe (version 2.4.7) the is an option to import users. I understand that while importing users can be added to multiple groups which are identified by some code property.

Need help with how to identify the code property for these groups?

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Re: Have a page as the rendering page for a specific DataObject but without a route to the page

neros3 — Wed, 23 May 2012 07:07:52 +1200

Would it be possible to tell the ShowProduct action on ProductCategory_Controller to grab another Page and use that for the rendering?
Of course this would require getting two pages - But could it work?

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Re: Have a page as the rendering page for a specific DataObject but without a route to the page

neros3 — Wed, 23 May 2012 07:01:53 +1200

I'll try to be a bit more clear...

/products/{ProductCategory_Page}/{Product_Page}

Both ProductCategory_Page and Product_Page are dynamic urls - but since Im using "DataObjects as pages" from ssbits.com I don't have a page for my Product in the sitetree. I only have a page for the ProductCategory. And since product category is dynamic (DataObject) I can't write a route for it (or at least I don't know that I can...).

Makes sense anyone?

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Re: Scheduled Tasks and Admin Login

BenWu — Tue, 22 May 2012 23:24:00 +1200

Works very well. thanks a lot azt3k. I try to use the Lucent plugin to index the website for search daily and tried to find out how to use wget to index the file. Your codes work perfectly for me.

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Re: Silverstripe Bounce Handling

Silverfish — Tue, 22 May 2012 20:55:24 +1200

Hi Willr,

I fully apologize for this short-sighted statement!
I forgot that Sapphire / SilverStripe uses to put several classes within one file and so just searched for filenames.

Do I get the code right, that bounces should be piped to something like http://domain.com/Email_BounceHandler?Email=[text]&Date=yy-mm-dd&Time=hh-mm-ss&Message=BounceFromXy ?

Thx
SF.

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Re: SS and linking to other systems on your hosting.

swaiba — Tue, 22 May 2012 19:35:11 +1200

This is the rewriting rules in .htaccess

the silverstripe rule is to redirect all URLs to main.php, except a specific php file or image

Read up on mod_rewrite (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html) and then you can add exceptions to the silverstripe rule for your required areas

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Re: Render data with a different template

johannes — Tue, 22 May 2012 19:31:44 +1200

I just added the function latestsamples to the controller and it's working like a charm.

Thank you for your effort, you helped me a lot.

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Re: Render data with a different template

sonet — Tue, 22 May 2012 17:17:24 +1200

Maybe you can AJAX the tab requests... something along the lines of:

Controller:

   function latestsamples() {
      if($this->isAjax) {
         return $this->renderWith('LatestBooks');
      }
      else {
         return Array();
      }
   }

public function init() {
parent::init();

      if(Director::is_ajax()) {
         $this->isAjax = true;
      }
      else {
         $this->isAjax = false;
      }

Requirements::javascript('https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js');

}

   public function MyBooks() {
      ...
      return $books;
   }

Templates:

templates/Layout/HomePage.ss

      <a href="{$Link}latestsamples" onclick="$('#ajaxTab').load('$Link' + 'latestsamples'); return false;">
         Latest Books
      </a>

templates/Includes/LatestBooks.ss

<h2>Latest Books</h2>
<% control MyBooks %>
...
<% end_control %>

I'm not sure how I got it to work without having JS enabled and then maybe it's better to use jQuery for the click binding.. but as a starting point maybe this will help.

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Have a page as the rendering page for a specific DataObject but without a route to the page

neros3 — Tue, 22 May 2012 10:27:05 +1200

Yes, the Title sounds a bit wierd.

Im having a lot of products and I've made them DataObjects to avoid the SiteTree being filled up with items/products.
Currently I have a Category_Controller which handles category view and product view via two routes.

When rendering a product I would like to be able to use another page as the "rendering template". On this page I need a specific widget area that should not be shown on the category page. But since its the same controller that handles both category view and product view I can't seem to find a good solution to this.

Any help is appreciated.

Help:
1. Maybe I could do with 2 widget areas? But is that possible?
2. Also trying to set a page type on the Category object from the Category_Controller (product or category depending on wich method is fired via the routes). But it doesnt seem to be the same object I get when fetching Director::currentPage();

Please let me know if you need further explaination as I know this all might sound a bit tricky!

Thanks!

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Re: Not sure what I need

swaiba — Tue, 22 May 2012 05:22:45 +1200

https://github.com/chillu/silverstripe-genericviews ?

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Render data with a different template

johannes — Tue, 22 May 2012 02:21:55 +1200

Hi Guys,

I try to speed up a bloated homepage and catch some content of tabs on demand only.

Therefor I need to render the content of some tabs without loading all of the page, which is really slow because of CURL requests. I experimented with renderWith, it's working but it feels wrong.

First I check for an action which I use to fetch the tab content:

$params = $this->getURLParams();

if ($params['Action']) {
if ($params['Action'] == 'latestsamples') {
echo $this->renderWith('LatestBooks');
exit;
}
}

Since I couldn't make the page stop rendering the HomePage Template I just print the returned string and shut it off.

The code will do for now, but there are more tabs and I'd like to do it i a proper way. Can somebody help me out?

Cheers,
Johannes

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Re: DateField showcalendar in SS3

BlueO — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:41:04 +1200

I seem to have sorted this - it appears to have been a requirements order problem with jquery being included too late perhaps - its hard to tell as the include order is tricky to deal with...

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Re: Looking for a way to target the CMS Login page using <% if RecordClassName = ??? %>

Willr — Mon, 21 May 2012 15:58:04 +1200

You may also have the same issue with using that as using ClassName = Security, in that forgot password, login and all security/ pages may by oversight all use security has the url segment.

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Re: Looking for a way to target the CMS Login page using <% if RecordClassName = ??? %>

RichMcNabb — Mon, 21 May 2012 15:44:43 +1200

Hi Will,

Thanks for the response for some reason your suggestion didn't work for me. However your code gave me an idea I could accomplish what I was wanting to do using:
<% if URLSegment=Security %>

Thanks again

- Rich

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Re: Partial caching doesn't re-cache on template change.

vwd — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:31:15 +1200

Thanks Will.

So does that mean the section "Cache blocks and template changes" in the documentation is inaccurate? Or do I read incorrectly?

How does including the statement...

if(isset($_REQUEST['flush'])) {
SS_Cache::set_cache_lifetime('any', -1, 100);
}

... differ in behaviour from the normal explicit cache flushing functionality?

Thanks Will.

VWD.

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Re: SS3 Beta UploadField on DataObject issues

Frankieboy — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:13:52 +1200

Hi nimesodelta,

The problem is that when an image is uploaded, it cannot make a link (LogoID) back to Brand dataobject since the Brand has not been actually created at the time the image is uploaded. A Brand data object is actually created when you click Create button.

If you try to save (create) a Brand first and then upload a image, it works fine...I know this is not a solution but hope the info is helpful.

Let me know if you can fix the problem

Cheers,

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Not sure what I need

Lemonie — Mon, 21 May 2012 10:44:48 +1200

On the website I need a simple table/database with the details of dogs in the rescue with the ability to filter reports on fields. I have looked through the modules and searched but am not sure what does what if that makes sense.

Any help gratefully received.

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Re: Adding an image behind the header

Lemonie — Mon, 21 May 2012 10:40:26 +1200

I'm sorry but I'm new to this .. which files do you mean

Make sure you make your changes in the included files.

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Re: Adding an image behind the header

Nobrainer Web — Mon, 21 May 2012 07:48:47 +1200

Hi Lemonie,

There is no difference as to how your HTML and CSS in SilverStripe works compared to static HTML and CSS - besides that you need to add ?flush=1 to the end of your URL, to flush the SS cache (if you have made changes to templates).

Make sure you make your changes in the included files.

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Re: Partial Caching

vwd — Mon, 21 May 2012 07:23:44 +1200

Hi Will,

Thanks for that suggestion - so $URLSegment is not unique across a site, and obviously $ID is.

Kind regards,
Prem.

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Re: Looking for a way to target the CMS Login page using <% if RecordClassName = ??? %>

Willr — Sun, 20 May 2012 12:19:21 +1200

Well ClassName will match any security page (login, forgot password etc) so if thats not an issue you can use <% if ClassName = Security %> otherwise you'll need a function in your Page.php which sniffs for the title (you can't have spaces in your <% if %> for 2.*).

// mysite/code/page.php
function isLoginPage() {
return ($this->Title == "Login");
}

<% if isLoginPage %>

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Re: Link to local page - impossible?

Willr — Sun, 20 May 2012 12:11:26 +1200

It's likely that testing pointing to a local html file on the same domain has not be a use case thats come up (most people have all their content in SilverStripe or the 2 separate).

The code that adds the http is in Redirector page (https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-cms/blob/master/code/model/RedirectorPage.php#L111). So it makes it quite clear that relative file paths were never thought of.

I recommend submitting a patch to add a new type called 'Relative' perhaps (https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-cms/blob/master/code/model/RedirectorPage.php#L14). You would just need to update a couple functions to say if Relative or External return the URL Field (i.e https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-cms/blob/master/code/model/RedirectorPage.php#L68)

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Re: Silverstripe Bounce Handling

Willr — Sun, 20 May 2012 12:04:09 +1200

The Api documentation lists two classes Email_bounceHandler and Email_bounceRecords, but actually these classes don't exist within the downloaded sources (version 2.4.7)

Those classes are there https://github.com/silverstripe/sapphire/blob/2.4/email/Email.php#L618

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Re: Partial caching doesn't re-cache on template change.

Willr — Sun, 20 May 2012 12:00:53 +1200

I get around this by including this in my _config.php

if(isset($_REQUEST['flush'])) {
SS_Cache::set_cache_lifetime('any', -1, 100);
}

Whether you are using partial caching or not, you always need to flush if you make template changes.

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Re: CSS Inclusion Order

Willr — Sun, 20 May 2012 11:56:45 +1200

So since SilverStripe works the way it does for a reason I would like to understand the reasoning behind it. I would not be so frustrated if I knew why

There is no reason why it does it like it does, just the way "It works" at the moment because that was easier. Several people have mentioned they would like to rewrite requirements but yet to see anyone try Examples / proposals welcome!

In the old days, SS had no <% require %> template tag, this was hacked on later and so doesn't match 1 = 1 with the PHP Requirements API.

I personally don't use <% require %> and the template requirements API as like you mentioned, the PHP API is easier to control the inclusion order and then you can also make use of Requirements::combine_files().

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Re: Partial Caching

Willr — Sun, 20 May 2012 11:43:38 +1200

ID might be a safer key than URLSegment as you'll have multiple pages with the same URLSegment (nested urls).

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SS and linking to other systems on your hosting.

Kiwipearls — Sun, 20 May 2012 11:16:03 +1200

Hi there,

I am using Silverstripe 2.4.7 and have just started using WHMCS.

I have a problem however that if I have a link to WHMCS, silverstripe comes up with page not found.

For example, I have a client area. (fake url etc used for demo purposes as my site is underconstruction)

My link is http://www.fakedomain.tld/clientarea/

Sivlverstripe displays page not found.

But if I enter in http://www.fakedomain.tld/clientarea/index.php - it will go to WHMCS.

How do I stop Silverstripe from requiring the index.php part?

I eagerly look forward to hearing from you.

Kind Regards
KP

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Re: Partial Caching

vwd — Sun, 20 May 2012 00:46:54 +1200

Hi VXD,

Try adding 'URLSegment' to the cache key. Ie.

<% cached 'database', LastEdited, URLSegment %>
$Content
<% end_cached %>

There is an explanation of this in the article on SilverStripe by Phillip Krenn.

Hope this helps.

VWD.

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Re: Partial Caching in navigation, problem with $LinkingMode

vwd — Sun, 20 May 2012 00:14:51 +1200

Hi Fiord,

How did you solve the $LinkingMode issue - did you add URLSegment to the nav block cache key?

Thanks.
VWD.

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Re: Uploaded pdf won't load

danzzz — Sat, 19 May 2012 20:41:41 +1200

loads fine for me to

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Re: Adding an image behind the header

haantje72 — Sat, 19 May 2012 18:51:53 +1200

i first added an image slider in javascript hardcoded in your theme page.php.

Now i use the module maxskitter. It works great. you can handle your own slide on every page you like and if no slide added you can set an default image. Several choices of sliders and setting. Love this module.

The only thing i noticed is that it breaks the popup of the image gallery when set the slider. so in the image gallery i just not set an slider and just show the default image.

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CSS Inclusion Order

micahsheets — Sat, 19 May 2012 10:46:31 +1200

This topic has been discussed a lot of times in this forum so I know how CSS files are loaded. My question that has still not been answered is why do CSS files load in the order they do. Not why programatically but why logically. The way CSS is usually loaded when done manually in a static website is to load the files so that more general ones load 1st and more specific ones load later. This way the general styles are applied everywhere and the can cascade down to more specific styles put on the same elements. This way you don't have to always use "!important" in styles.

The way SilverStripe works makes a lot of sense generally. You Have Page.php which can be extended to HomePage.php and InteriorPage.php etc. It would then make a lot of sense that if you put your general style sheets in Page.php and then have a specific one in HomPage.php and another different but more specific one in InteriorPage.php that would make sense. The further down the line you might have an include brought in by $Layout. If that included file had a style sheet required in it then that one would load later than the others. This is the way Cascading Style Sheets were intended to be used. However SilverStripe does not work this way. If you use the nice Requirements class to bring in your StyleSheets using css or themedCSS it starts by loading the stylesheets defined in the $Layout template 1st, then in the init() of the extended Page Class then in the Page Class itself. This breaks all the cascading that should be possible with CSS. I now have to manually bring in custom head tags or use "!important all over the place in style sheets that should by default already be overriding more general stylesheets.

So since SilverStripe works the way it does for a reason I would like to understand the reasoning behind it. I would not be so frustrated if I knew why and could understand the thinking. It seems like the Requirements class may have been written in a logical way from a programmers view but without really understanding how CSS is supposed to work. Or maybe I just am missing an important point that would make it all make sense. I know there are others who would really appreciate knowing the why of the current methods.

I may just make my own version of Requirements so that it works they way most people would expect it to.

Thanks

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Re: Uploaded pdf won't load

Smurkas — Sat, 19 May 2012 08:22:26 +1200

The pdf loads fine for me, it's just a big file.

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Uploaded pdf won't load

Lemonie — Sat, 19 May 2012 07:22:28 +1200

I have uploaded a 6 page pdf document but it will not load when you click on the link

http://www.homelesshounds.org.uk/index.php/get-involved/fostering/

What am I doing wrong?

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Adding an image behind the header

Lemonie — Sat, 19 May 2012 03:24:02 +1200

I would like to add an image behind the header which is a slice image which repeats horizontally. I have tried various things in css but it isn't showing.

Can anybody help?

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Why does the link from poweredsites.org cause an SS site to behave so strangely?

vwd — Sat, 19 May 2012 01:51:44 +1200

Hi,

Just wondering why a link from poweredsite.org (click on the Mark Walters Mediation Victoria link) is causing an SS site to not render properly. It is as if a 404 page is being rendered with just the default data from a clean SS installation (only the default pages - home, about us & contact us - but no content whatsoever). Weird! Simply refreshing the same 404 error page URL loads the page normally.

There seems to be nothing wrong with the link href. In any case, even if an incorrect URL is requested, it should display the normal 404 page / site, with the full set of pages in the menu and the standard content of the template.

Any ideas?

Thank you.
VWD.

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Re: ModelAdmin - Adding new tabs in right panel

BenWu — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:51:07 +1200

When i want to put the image field to another tab, i just do

$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Images', new ImageField("Picture", "Upload avatar."));

and SS will remove the picture field from the Main and put it in the Images tab

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