- ISBN13: 9780470681831
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
This is the Official Guide on the award-winning SilverStripe programming framework, authored by the creators of the open source CMS. SilverStripe is a robust and flexible website content management system (CMS) tightly integrated with an application framework. It is open source and embraces modern system architecture and agile development methodologies. Intermediate developers can implement powerful websites and web-applications quickly and customi… More >>
The day I first heard of SilverStripe, was also the day that I discovered that a book for SilverStripe was in the works. After a few days of playing with the CMS I definitely wanted to get the book. By shear luck I got in contact with Wiley Publishing and was able to receive a review copy of the book. So hence I’m giving my first impressions here. Now I should mention that I am not a developer, and only an amateur webdesigner. I do have some basic PHP programming skills, and am familiar with the idea of Object Oriented Programming, which, as I discovered, is invaluable for working with this CMS. At this point I’m about half way through the book, and was impressed with the well structured approach. The concepts of the MVC (Model-View-Controller) structure of SilverStripe are explained clearly, and customizing the CMS is at least at its basic level straight forward. I like that every concept explained in the book is tied into an evolving web project, that gets a little more complex with each turn of the page. Again, I’m only half way through the book, and for a seasoned developer some of what is written might be trivial, but for those with limited programming skills this book will put you on the right track.
As a side note, the book does not simply rehash the documentation and tutorials on the official […] website. It is stand alone and compliments in depth what’s already out there. Thanks to the SilverStripe team for this book and for a great CMS.
Rating: 5 / 5
Well written. Clear and full of usefull informations, that lets you to start creating amazing site with Silverstripe in a moment.
Rating: 5 / 5
This books takes you from 0 – 60 in… well very quickly anyway. For an introductory book, it does a very good job at taking you through everything that you need to know and getting you right into coding and designing a useful application. I very much recommend this book!
Rating: 5 / 5
Still a unknown in the CMS arena, but up and coming. Good introduction and overview of SilverStripe.
Rating: 5 / 5
I am happy with this purchase and it is exactly what i was looking for 🙂
Rating: 5 / 5