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This is the Official Guide on the award-winning SilverStripe programming framework, authored by the creators of the open source content management system

SilverStripe is a free and open source programming framework and content management system (CMS) for creating and maintaining Web sites. The CMS provides an intuitive Web-based administration panel, allowing any person to maintain their Web site without knowledge of markup or programming languages. Much like Ruby on Rails, but for PHP, it ensures developers are capable of extending and enhancing the functionality of the CMS and the Web site.

SilverStripe guides you from creating a basic Web site through to full-fledged Web applications in a practical, accessible style. The authors teach you the general basics and design patterns of SilverStripe, as well as the installation process, before showing you how to write an example application. Then, you'll learn how to use the CMS to build a user-group Web site and get to know templating as well as usage of the CMS. Then you'll see how to extend the site to a portal where users can contribute job offers, for which you can develop forms and business logic in PHP. The final tutorial-style chapter enables the administration of collected data through a custom CRM-style backend, explaining advanced concepts such as form scaffolding and search.

• Shows you how to use SilverStripe to develop a basic Web site, build a user-group site, extend your site to a portal, and more
• One-of-a-kind reference-written by core members of the SilverStripe platform-gathers best practices, tips and advice, and current expertise on this up-and-coming CMS
• Discusses SilverStripe's flexible MVC (Model-View-Controller) development framework, known as Sapphire
• Will be featured on official SilverStripe Web sites and throughout the growing online SilverStripe community

If you're looking for tips and advice on this promising new content management system, let SilverStripe be your guide.