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Partial Caching and JavaScript Requirements
Partial Caching is a great tool for speeding up your website - but if done too aggresively your javascript will not be included.
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Translatable Controller URLs
You can easily translate CMS content with translatable or fluent, but what if you have an url that is just grabbed by a controller?
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Get Related Pages, or: Filter By Many_Many Relation
On our Slack community channel today one question was, how to get all other pages with the same tags like the current page.
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Piwik: track telephone and email links
It's possible to link to telephone numbers which can easily be dialed on mobile devices. But piwik automatically just tracks links that use the http protocol.
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More Speed with PHP7 on SilverStripe 3
Unfortunately SilverStripe 3 doesn't work with PHP7 out of the box due to some naming conflicts with newly reserved words. Some community members already fixed the problem.
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Speeding Up MySQL (instead of using sqlite)
Many people use sqlite for testing purposes because it's fast... and it's fast because it uses memory for many operations instead of the disk...
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Fluent and Partial Caching
Fluent is a great SilverStripe module for translating sites, that need the same tree for all locales. Unfortunately there are some pitfalls with partial caching.
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Speed up a vagrant machine on windows
Vagrant is a great tool for developing a SilverStripe site, it's easy to set up a new VM for each project.
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Show filenames in templates for debugging
SilverStripe's template engine hides by default names of templates. While developing and debugging template stuff you'd like to see them in your rendered page.
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ListboxField example that uses an arbitrary array of values
I've often used ListBox when dealing with DataObjects as the values being selected, it's a little undocumented how to deal with just an arbitrary array... so here is an example for that.
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