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 install SilverStripe with Composer.

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

Getting support

SilverStripe has an wide range of options for getting support:

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.
Build tooling
The tools we use to compile our frontend code
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
Coding conventions
The style guidelines we follow in all of our open source code
Javascript coding conventions
The Javascript style guidelines we follow in our open source software
CSS coding conventions
The CSS style guidelines we follow in our open source software
PHP coding conventions
The code style guidelines we use in our open source software
Triage resources
Canned responses and other resources used during triage
Maintainer guidelines
Cheat sheet for module maintainers
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