milkyway-multimedia/ss-mwm-core

Some basic utilities used across multiple Milkyway Multimedia modules

Milkyway Multimedia - Silverstripe Core Extensions

Features

• New utility methods to use across your projects
• Allow uploads in UploadField
• Tabs can be loaded from URL hashes
  • You can also link to tabs if your link has the class: ss-tabset-goto
• New context menu options for your SiteTree
  • Publish Record
  • Unpublish Record
  • Delete permanently
• Allow cookie_path and cookie_domain to be set for Cookies

Additional methods included on extensions

• Controller
  • ->BackLink
  • ->displayNiceView(): Display this controller in a pretty website style page
  • ->respondToFormAppropriately(): Either return a json encoded response or a redirect when not in an ajax request
• DataObject
  • ->i18n_description()
  • ->firstOrMake($filter = [], $additionalData = [], $write = true): Get matching record, or make if it doesnt exist
  • ->is_a($class): for templates
  • ->is_not_a($class): for templates
  • ->InheritedObj($fieldName): Get an inherited object (dot notation allowed). It will check the following:
    1. Cache
    2. Method on current object
    3. If object has parent method (or extends @Hierarchy), it will check the parents
    4. Check home page if it exists
    5. Check SiteConfig if it exists
• DBField: This has quite a few new methods, check the phpdoc for more info
• Member:
  • ->canAccessCMS()

singleton('director')

This extends Director and has a few utility methods related to dealing with the SiteTree and Controllers, and adds some new template globals, _(*1)

• secureBaseURL
• nonSecureBaseURL
• baseWebsiteURL - The url without the protocol or www, the pretty url
• protocol
• homePage
• isHomePage($page = SiteTree|int)
• adminLink
• siteConfig

singleton('mwm')

Some utility methods to deal with some stuff I could not do with vanilla Silverstripe, and also adds some new template globals, _(*2)

• canAccessCMS
• canEditCurrentPage
• appDir
• is($type = string)

Install

Add the following to your composer.json file, _(*3)

    "require"          : {
        "milkyway-multimedia/ss-mwm-core": "dev-master"
    }

License

• MIT

Version

• Version 0.3 (Alpha)

Contact

Mellisa Hankins

• E-mail: mellisa.hankins@me.com
• Twitter: @mi3ll
• Website: mellimade.com.au