Silverstripe Development Scripts

A handful of shell scripts to aid Silverstripe development (especially when using Laravel Valet as your dev environment):

• ssdownload - Download content (assets and database) from a live Silverstripe site
• launch - Open dev site URL in browser
• newsite - Creates a new Silverstripe site in Valet
• setupsite - Sets up an existing Silverstripe site for local development in Valet
• deletesite - Deletes a Valet site and matching database

Script Installation & Setup

macOS

1. Check out the repo to a location of your choice. e.g. to ~/Sites/_SS-SCRIPTS
2. Make the scripts executable.

   cd ~/Sites/_SS-SCRIPTS
   chmod u+x *.sh

3. Copy ssscripts.conf.example to ssscripts.conf and customise as required.
4. Add aliases to the scripts, so they'll work anywhere, e.g. if using ZSH on mac OS:
   • Create/edit ~/.zshrc and add the following, adjusting the path based on where you checked out the repo in step 1:

   alias newsite='~/Sites/_SS-SCRIPTS/newsite.sh'
   alias deletesite='~/Sites/_SS-SCRIPTS/deletesite.sh'
   alias setupsite='~/Sites/_SS-SCRIPTS/setupsite.sh'
   alias launch='~/Sites/_SS-SCRIPTS/launch.sh'

Windows

These scripts were primarily created for macOS. You may need to make some adjustments for them to work on Windows.

Add site configs

The ssdownload and setupsite scripts require some details about the site in question, such as the SSH conenction details.

As you will likely wish to run ssdownload multiple times, these settings can be stored in a config file in your site's root:

~/Sites/MYSITE/ssdownload.conf

REMOTEHOST=example.com
USERNAME=example
REMOTESITEROOT=www

DEVSITEURL=https://example.dev/

The Scripts

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ssdownload - Download content (assets and database) from a live Silverstripe site

Quickly update your local dev version of a site with the latest content and assets from the live site, by simply running ssdownload in the local site's root.

This script:

1. Uses rsync to pull down only changed/added assets.
2. Uses sspak to download a copy of the live database to replace the local database.

Local requirements:

• sspak Download
• rsync
• ssdownload.conf file in local site root with SSH details:
  • REMOTEHOST = example.com
  • USERNAME = example
  • REMOTESITEROOT = www
• OR: pass the 3 values as arguments, e.g.:
  • ssdownload example example.com www
• A working copy of a Silverstripe site (version 3 or 4)

Remote requirements:

• SSH access
  • With an existing public key setup

Usage:

• Once set up as above, simply run ssdownload from the site root and it will download the assets and database from the live site.

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launch - Open dev site in browser

Often forgetting the local dev URL for each of your sites? Just store it in ssdownload.conf and then run launch from the terminal to open it in your browser.

Requirements:

• ssdownload.conf in local site root with:
  • DEVSITEURL = https://example.dev/

Usage:

• launch from site root

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newsite - Creates a new Silverstripe site in Valet

Quickly spin up a fresh Silverstripe site in Laravel Valet.

This script first prompts for:

1. A name for the site, e.g. myexamplesite (or takes it as an argument.)
2. Which version of Silverstripe you'd like to install, defaults to the latest.

Then it automatically:

1. Creates a new directory (using the entered name)for the site in ~/Sites (Customisable in ssscripts.conf)
2. Links this directory as a Laravel Valet site.
3. Creates a new database for the site in your local database server. e.g. DBngin
4. Installs the desired Silverstripe version using Composer.
5. Sets Valet to use the appropriate PHP version (Customisable in ssscripts.conf)
6. Setups up the .env file for the site.
   • Adds database details
   • Adds default admin login details (Customisable in ssscripts.conf)
7. Runs /dev/build to set up the database.
8. Gives the site an SSL certificate using valet secure
9. Opens the local site URL in the browser.
10. Opens the site root in your editor ready for editing. (Customisable in ssscripts.conf)

Local requirements:

• Laravel Valet
• Database server (e.g. DBngin)
• composer

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deletesite - Deletes a Valet site and database

If you used newsite to quickly spin up a new Silverstripe site to test/try something, you can quickly delete it by running:

deletesite NAMEOFSITE

This will then instantly:

1. Unlink the site directory from Valet.
2. Delete the site's directory.
3. Delete the site's database.

Requirements:

• Laravel Valet
• Database server (e.g. DBngin)

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setupsite - Sets up an existing Silverstripe site in Valet

If you have an existing Silverstripe site that you'd like to get up and running in Valet, this script will take care of that by: adding the site to Valet, setting up the .env and downloading the assets and database from the live site.

1. Start in the root of a Silverstripe site, .e.g freshly checked out from a remote repository.
2. Add details for the remote site to a new ssdownload.conf file:
   • REMOTEHOST=example.com
   • USERNAME=example
   • REMOTESITEROOT=www
3. Run setupsite from the site root.

The script will ask:

1. For a name for the site, e.g. myexamplesite (Will default to the provided SSH username)
2. Which version of Silverstripe the site is (e.g. 3 or 4)
3. Which PHP version the site requires. (Defaults to version set in ssscripts.conf)

Then it automatically:

1. Links this directory as a Laravel Valet site. (valet link SITENAME)
2. Sets Valet to use the desired PHP version.
3. Runs composer install to download required packages.
4. Creates a new database for the site in your local database server.
5. Creates a .env file prefilled with the local database details. (Or a _ss_environment.php for a Silverstripe 3 site.)
6. Runs ssdownload to get the site database and assets from the live site.
7. Gives the site an SSL cert using valet secure
8. Opens the local site URL in the browser.
9. Opens the site root in your editor ready for editing. (Customisable in ssscripts.conf)

Local requirements:

• Laravel Valet
• Database server (e.g. DBngin)
• composer

Also works with Silverstripe 3 sites, just make sure you have PHP 7.3 installed.