Building without the SilverStripe CMS can be useful when you don't need full website management tools. Learn how to go about building a web-app with just the SilverStripe Framework

1. SilverStripe Framework
Building without the CMS

2. What we’ll cover
Why?! Just why?
What does the CMS take care of for us?
Setting up routes
Handing off to nested controllers
What about a CRUD* interface?

3. Why would you even...
But the CMS is one of
SilverStripe’s USPs!

4. Why would you even...

5. Because:
Quick to get up and running
Easy to define Data Model
Familiarity with framework
Can use existing pipelines and
workflows
User management out-of-the-box
Access control / security
Modules!

6. What does the CMS do?
Takes care of dynamic routing
ModelAsController
Nested routes
Dynamic links to models
Forwarding of old URLs
SiteTree
Pages
Logical hierarchy and menus

7. So why throw it away?
Speed gains
Reduce bloat
No requirement for managing site structure or content
Highly dynamic pages

8. Where do we start?

9. Routing

10. Routing
Config system for routing
mysite/_config/routes.yml
Define routes to controllers
Before/After?
Before = LOWER priority
After = HIGHER priority

11. Routing
Handling requests on the Controller
Extra params won’t be removed
Params are parsed when they match
We can create some nice “RESTful”
URIs

12. Putting it into practice

14. A Todo App!

18. Nested controllers

19. Nested controllers
Delegating to nested controllers
Prevent creating GOD controllers
Single purpose controllers!
Flexibility to be used anywhere

20. Flexibility
Instead of:

21. Flexibility
We can do:

22. Routing through nested controllers
GET /todo/1/task/9/delete HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
...
todo matches ListController
1/task/9/delete is passed to ListController
1/task matches task action
9/delete is passed to TaskController

23. Add some logic to pull out the current List

24. Put it all together...

25. Sprinkle some fairy dust

26. We have ourselves a todo list app

27. What about administration?

28. CRUD out of the box?

29. Framework comes with the admin module
CMS extends Admin
Most projects/apps need SOME sort of CRUD interface
Save yourself building an admin interface!
User management / permissions out of the box
The admin (not CMS)

31. CRUD out of the box?

33. Framework comes with the admin module
CMS extends Admin
Most projects/apps need SOME sort of CRUD interface
Save yourself building an admin interface!
User management / permissions out of the box
The admin (not CMS)

34. What did we learn?

36. Everything else stays the same
Define your
Routes
Controllers
Models
Relationships
Views

37. or… just build a to-do list app

38. Thanks
github.com/dhensby/todo-list
@dhensby (everywhere!!)