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SilverStripe 2.4.0

Rating: 3.7/5 (409 votes cast)

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Category: CMS / Portals

Stable Release: 2.4.0

Started In: 2007

Updated: May 6 2010 10:06 am

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SilverStripe Description

SilverStripe is a free and open source programming framework and content management system (CMS) for creating and maintaining websites. The CMS provides an intuitive web-based administration panel, allowing any person to maintain their website without knowledge of markup or programming languages.

SilverStripe contains a flexible MVC development framework known as Sapphire. Much like Ruby on Rails, but written in PHP5, it ensures developers are capable of extending and enhancing the functionality of the CMS and the website. SilverStripe provides developers with complete control of the generated markup; allowing for higher, semantic standards of XHTML. As a consequence, building websites using SilverStripe requires technical website development competence, and is thus aimed at providing efficiency and power to experienced website developers.

SilverStripe can run on Windows or Linux, with a choice of MySQL, Microsoft SQL, or PostgreSQL database.

SilverStripe is released under the terms of the BSD Licence. Documentation is available for CMS users and website developers. A 450 page technical reference book on SilverStripe is available in German, with an English edition coming by August 2009. An online demonstration of the CMS is available as a video and as an interactive demo.

Commercial support services for SilverStripe are available from silverstripe.com

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Posted By: Graphic Agenda on July 10 2010 04:51 pm

I give this CMS a 5 star rating. This one let's you develop each section of your site. My favorite components are the ModelAdmin and the DataObjectManager. These let you work with data like no other CMS out there, and what I do is help businesses with their online databases

Posted By: Brian Hooper on April 26 2010 11:45 am

Great Software clean and works easy. My version 2.3.7 is great

Posted By: Hugues on March 22 2010 12:10 pm

The real power of Silverstripe is what you can't see in the demo. The sapphire framework is faily well done so it is easy to build new functionality. I would not give this product a five stars as the code could be much tighter. The new version should bring new url and that's a good thing.

Posted By: kiko on November 4 2009 08:44 am

Posted By: Boxx on October 29 2009 06:26 pm

Looks great, works great. I like the real access control to content (who may view what). I like the "Explorer" way to organize content.

Editor..... hmmm .... WYSINWYG (what you see in not what you get). Needs improvement.

Posted By: Crasso on October 22 2009 04:53 am

Silverstripe is way above Drupal or Joomla. Excellent CMS. Just compare its administration interface to the one of Drupal and you will understand the superiority of Silverstripe.

Posted By: Iain on October 15 2009 03:36 am

Awesome CMS! Really flexible, scalable and easy to use. It comes as a pretty light-weight package usable for small sites, but can be extended pretty easily.

Only downpoint as stated below is the missing of hierarchical url's. Wait for the 2.4 release if you're waiting for this.

The people complaining about how difficult the installation is, don't know what they're doing.

Disappearing images? Come, CHMOD your /assets/ directory as stated in the installation.

3 days to install this CMS? You've got to be kidding me. It's even easier than Joomla!

Overall awesome CMS!

9/10

Posted By: Howard Miller on September 20 2009 05:03 pm

This a great CMS with a lot of flexibility but you WILL need to write PHP code and you will need to be a reasonably experienced PHP developer at that as it uses so advanced features.

The HUGE problem though is the documentation. The tutorials cover the basics and are good but the reference documentation is dire. It is very, very obscure and lacks the essential examples. Shame but, sadly, a regular failing of otherwise promising OS software.

Posted By: on June 29 2009 09:31 pm

The worst CMS I have ever used. Took me 3 days+ just to get it installed. I also found it to very bulky so don't see any reason not to just use Drupal or Joomla. The community is also very small and finding help will almost never happen. Like the other people here said; "not for beginners, but for advanced users"

Posted By: Jigar on May 19 2009 01:53 am

after uploading a picture when you try to resize it. and then save and publish, then it disappears from the front it. Check it out.. A BIG MISTAKE!!!

Also doesn't have the tool to change the font color?

Posted By: George on March 19 2009 07:48 pm

It looks great can't wait to try this on my site. Hopefully it will be what I am looking for.

Posted By: Moravagine on January 24 2009 04:40 am

First glance was promising. Installation was simple, if you have provider that only supports hyphens inside the database name than you have to hack the config-form.html a bit. All went well first. Then I installed a standard module called Blog. After that it all ended up in mess. And even inside the core something went terribly wrong after the first blog entry. I think this is pretty like the Drupal or ez Publish status in 2006. I will come back in 2012 if someone mentally good supported will have had his hands on it. Up to now only for real PHP geeks who have weeks to set it up und like the approach that the admin tool is good-looking but bad functioning...

This is between a C and a D....

Posted By: user on January 21 2009 03:54 am

Firstly, this isn't a designer-friendly CMS (and I think wasn't even intended to be so). This strikes me as a very odd choice -- who do they think makes websites?! :) You do need a level of PHP knowledge to even build very basic page layouts (e.g. a page with two editable regions). You'll be sub-classing the main page classes to do this.

Some of the getting started tutorials are excellent, but their wiki is very poor indeed. There's just not enough documentation for this project, which could end up being a risk for your project.

My single biggest complain, however, is the lack of hierarchical URLS. You can only have one level, which means beyond a very small site, this renders SS useless for websites with any depth. For example, SS can only do:

domain.com/product

When what everyone actually wants is:

domain.com/category/product

And so on...

Apparently there's various hacks people have tried to fudge this, but I wouldn't expose my clients to this risk. The talk is that version 2.4 might have this.

Posted By: tek on January 18 2009 05:37 pm

The Demo of the CMS looked promising, very clean. After installing this on my own server, i realized this is a very tedious and frustrating CMS, a huge learning curve if you will, as well as very laggy User-Interface, admin panel is always in "loading" state before i can actually start adding/modifying content. I wouldnt recommend this for an average/casual website owner.

Posted By: JohnDoe on July 7 2008 11:22 am

Silverstripe has a fantastic backend and is very extendible however it is not really for beginners. The documentation is very large but spread out over a number of pages. Many of the tutorials are easy to follow, but many of them are difficult to follow or have bugs. SS has a couple modules however they do have a bunch of bugs since the new version of SS came out. This is a great CMS however it feels like the developers are more busy on their websites rather than the CMS. SS right now is really only for developing template websites with the content on the back end. Very flexible however some aspects of design are quite tricky.

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