So, having used SilverStripe for a few days now, I thought I'd share my experience with it.
Installation
Install was quick and reletively painless. The usual entering of DB details, and checks for required filesystem permissions and PHP settings.
Administration
The admin section of SS is what initially drew me to it. I was looking for a CMS that was powerful, and yet easy to use. The backend of SS is broken up into several sections:
Site Content
Fairly obvious, this is where you create and modify your site content. A sidepane contains your site structure, allowing drag-and-drop reordering, revision history, and site reports. The main pane contains a consistant layout in the form of global tabs for each page- content, behaviou, to-do, Reports, and Access. These control how the page looks and behaves, as well as permissions.
The content tab changes subtley for each page type. For normal text pages this does not differ a great deal, however gallery pages will allow you to customise the layout of the gallery, and select images.
Files & Images
Newsletters
Security
Comments
Statistics
Help
An online demo is available at http://demo.silverstripe.com/
Critisms
Not everything is fantastic about SilverStripe however, I have run into a couple of small problems in the last few days.
Mod_rewrite
Firstly, SS uses mod_rewrite to achieve friendly URLs. Unfortunately the rewrite conditions don't restrict to the domain that it is installed to, so depending how your subdomains are set up, you may have issues with subdomains being passed though the rewrite engine.
Configuration
Changes to configuration could be a little better. As it is, to change themes you have to manually edit the config file. Themes have the site name and site slogan defined in each theme, rather than having these as variables. Email configuration is non-existent, all mail is passed through PHP's mail() function which can be a little restrictive.
Blog Module
Until writing up this post, I hadn't realised that the Blog module does no use the WYSIWYG editor in the admin panel, instead relying on the rather clunky BBCode for formatting. This is disapointing, but as it is only an 0.1 release, this may be improved.
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