Version 3 end of life
This version of Silverstripe CMS will not recieve any additional bug fixes or documentation updates. Go to documentation for the most recent stable version.

Getting Started with SilverStripe

Before you start developing your first web application, you'll need to install the latest version of SilverStripe onto a web server. The Getting Started section will show you what server requirements you will need to meet and how to download and install SilverStripe.

To check out the features that SilverStripe offers without installing it, read the Feature Overview and play with the interactive demo website.

Getting support

SilverStripe has an wide range of options for getting support. The forums and IRC channel are the best places to talk and discuss questions and problems with the community. There are also several other websites with SilverStripe documentation to make use of.

  • The API Documentation contains technical reference and class information.
  • The User Help website contains documentation related to working within the CMS.

New features, API changes and the development roadmap for the product are discussed on the core mailinglist along with UserVoice.

Building your first SilverStripe Web application

Once you have completed the Getting Started guide and have got SilverStripe installed and running, the following Tutorials will lead through the basics and core concepts of SilverStripe.

Make sure you know the basic concepts of PHP5 before attempting to follow the tutorials. If you have not programmed with PHP5 be sure to read the Introduction to PHP5 (zend.com).

SilverStripe Concepts

The Developer Guides contain more detailed documentation on certain SilverStripe topics, 'how to' examples and reference documentation.

Contributing to SilverStripe

The SilverStripe Framework, Content Management System and related websites are open source and welcome community contributions.

Bug Reports
Report bugs or problems with SilverStripe, feature requests or other issues.
Contributing Code
Fix bugs and add new features to help make SilverStripe better.
Request for comment
Our approach to decision-making around impactful changes to the product
Release process
Describes the process followed for "core" releases.
Making a SilverStripe core release
Development guide for core contributors to build and publish a new release
Documentation
Writing guide for contributing to SilverStripe developer and CMS user help documentation.
Translations
Translate interface components like button labels into multiple languages.
Implement Internationalisation
Implement SilverStripe's internationalisation system in your own modules.
Core committers
The team of contributors that has merge access to our open source repositories
Code of conduct
How to be a high-performing, helpful member of our community
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