Werner Krauss
Freelancer. Does PHP since 1998 and uses Silverstripe since 2009. Runs different customer websites and his main project, www.hallstatt.net with it.
When he's not in front of his laptop he enjoys family and playing his guitar.
Posts by Werner Krauss for Blog:
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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Block javascript in template
Everyone knows that Requirements::block('/path/to/javascript.js'); in php blocks this file from being loaded. This is important to e.g. require a newer version of jQuery.
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Easier coding with PHPStorm templates
If you're using PHPStorm or Intellij IDEA you might know, that you can use some templates to ease your work.
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$_FILE_TO_URL_MAPPING and symlinks
Howto solve "[Warning] Director::protocolAndHost() lacks sufficient information - HTTP_HOST not set" when your webroot is symlinked to the latest release?
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Setters done right
In case you're a fan of addding setters to your class or DataExtension avoid some simple pitfalls.
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LogicException: getItemPath returned null for ClassName
When writing unit tests, sometimes you have a hard time to get them working. Today the error "LogicException: getItemPath returned null for ClassName" drove me crazy, but I found a solution.
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How to move all Pages and DataObjects from Main Site to a Subsite
In case you want to move "Everything (tm)" from Main Site to a Subsite, there is no ready-to-use task available.
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ModelAdmin: filter by $many_many with a dropdown
When you have a DataObject with a $many_many "Tags" => "Tag" you can add a filter dropdown in ModelAdmin by overwriting the scaffoldSearchFields() method:
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Get all titles of a many_many component in a GridField summary
Assuming you have a DataObject with $many_many Tags, you can easily add all Tag's Titles comma seperated to $summary_fields using PHP's join method, even sorted by the SortOrder of the...
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