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:
How to speed up unit tests using sqlite
Running unit tests might be dead slow if you're using mysql for it, cause for every test a new DB is set up and destroyed afterwards.
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Save $many_many_extraFields when adding a DataObject to a list
Assuming you have a $many_many relation and SortOrder defined as $many_many_extraFields you can add an item to this ManyManyList and pass the extraFields as an array:
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How to switch off Subsites extension on a DataList
When running subsites the old (2.4) way of disabling or enabling subsites is:
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How to tell, if a DataObject is already written to DB
Sometimes you want to check, if you're DataObject is still a new object or already written to DB, e..g in your onBeforeWrite() method. You can either check
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Howto send emails to more recipients
Silverstripe's Email class uses the standard php mail() function for sending emails. Sending an email to one recipient is clear, put the mail adress in the "to" parameter.
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