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This website documents high-level features of the SilverStripe open source platform, aimed at developers.
Please read our guide to contributing documentation if you want to help out!

Overview

• Getting started | Feature Overview | Demo
• Download and Installation | Upgrading | Requirements | Changelog | Roadmap
• API documentation | Official english book | Official german book

Getting support

Forum | IRC channel | End user docs | Core mailinglist

Level 1: Building your first SilverStripe website

• Introduction to PHP5 (zend.com)
• Tutorials
• 1. Building a basic site
• 2. Extending a basic site
• 3. Forms
• 4. Site Search
• 5. Relationships
• Common Problems

Level 2: SilverStripe fundamentals

• Templates: SilverStripe has its own templating engine
• Themes: How to customize your site with themes
• Controllers: Coordination from a URL-request to finding the controller-class
• Pagetypes: Clarifying the relationship between a page-object and a silverstripe-class
• Datamodel: Object-relational database model with MVC
• Database Structure: Breakdown of a typical SilverStripe database
• Datatypes: Casting database-columns
• Forms: Sophisticated form generation and processing
• Formfield Types: Simple and complex form-elements with built-in validation
• Javascript
• Widgets
• Modules
• Configuration

Level 3: The less obvious features

• Security
• Email
• RSS Feeds
• Debugging
• Errorhandling
• Testing Guide: Framework for automated testing like Unittests
• Execution Pipeline: Tracking a request from director to template-rendering
• Recipes/Howtos

Level 4: Contributing to the SilverStripe core

• Contributing
• Coding Conventions

Looking for the old DokuWiki installation? See [doc.silverstripe.org/old](http://doc.silverstripe.org/old).