SilverStripe meetup March 2011 - SilverStripe 3.0

SilverStripe 3.0 A new but familiar way to manage content Some key Technical updates Framework and CMS separation Make Sapphire a better standalone development framework MVC framework with extras ORM layer User management Security layer Basic 'administration' infrastructure Optionally available to your Sapphire application SilverStripe CMS is just a module but a pretty significant one at that ORM Improvements Interacting with DataObjects should be more fluent Move away from direct SQL - make database independence less of a developer issue (but still have it available for those who can't do without!) DataObject::get("Order") ->whereEquals("Name","Sam") ->sort("Created", "desc"); Reduce SQL injection possibilities Remove the onus on developers to think about it Data integrity foreign keys unique keys transactions http://open.silverstripe.org/wiki/development/NewDataMapper SPEED! Core APIS Make versioning work better for other DataObjects Make workflow concepts more native to the core, without imposing Dependency Injection Reduce reliance on static::method_calls() Permission management and specification Site Management Configuration Make it easier to define configuration properties Decouple intermodule dependency Speed up loading of configuration Module Management Commandline tools for loading modules into your SilverStripe site silverstripe.org/modules update better metadata dependencies update availability API access Eventually, web interface for management Diagnostics And for those building sites CMS UI Refresh It's served us well, but it's looking a bit long in the tooth Use your site with your CMS Navigate in a familiar, more powerful way Or a more flexible, non-tree centric way Using the power of HTML5 And being more intelligent with content Javascript Rewrite Standardising on jQuery based technologies jQuery jQuery UI SilverStripe developed jQuery.entwine Better validation Cleaner pages Better frontend testing No more prototype Template engine rewrite Rewritten using a grammar based parser Proper logic blocks - more than one clause in an if statement! Better scope handling (eg $Up versus $Top) Make it easier to define custom template languages Smarty patTemplate Raw PHP itself Some goals Increase community contributions! Alpha mid 2011 Stable by end of year Mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/silverstripe-dev http://silverstripe.org/contributing-to-silverstripe/ Github!