Code samples

Let's assume you had a website with 'normal' pages and now wanted some other pages that displayed biographies for people working at a company. You can use SilverStripe Framework to extend the normal pages into staff pages, and add new fields, such as role, email address, photo, etc:

<?php
class StaffPage extends Page {
  
  private static $db = array(
    'Role' => 'Text'
  ); 

  private static $has_one = array(
    'StaffPhoto' => 'Image' 
  ); 

  public function getCMSFields() { 		
    $fields = parent::getCMSFields();  		
$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Staff', TextField::create("Role"));
 $fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Staff', UploadField::create("StaffPhoto", "Staff photo"));
    $fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Staff', TextField::create("Role"));
    $fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Staff', UploadField::create("StaffPhoto")); 		

    return $fields;
  }
}

The above will automatically do a number of things:

• Add a new PHP class to your project, based on the regular Page class, to which you can attach custom business logic and functionality.
• Add new columns to the database schema as necessary (after visiting the 'build' URL http://<yoursite>/dev/build/).
• Lets you insert the template codes $Role and $StaffPhoto in your templates in to display the content.
• Update the CMS user interface to display a text field and an image upload field on a new “Staff” tab.

To see more code, we suggest:

• Heading over to our tutorials
• Buying and reading the SilverStripe book
• Downloading and playing with the code.