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The Symfony Blank Screen Dilemma
February 6th, 2009 by adminSilverstripe CMS - the new path of least resistance?
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September 7th, 2008 by adminCompView Redesign
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March 1st, 2008 by adminLanikai Properties Gets Site of The Day
November 19th, 2007 by adminHappy Halloween! PayScan America 2.0 launched!
October 31st, 2007 by adminLanikai Properties is Alive
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Silverstripe and Flickr
March 24th, 2009 by adminWe recently developed a site with Silverstripe 2.3 and encountered two issues with the Flickr module.
1 - Error in Flickr Gallery. The gallery would not work and the page is broken with an error message that currentURLSegment does not exist, referencing line ~165 in FlickrService.php (flickrservice/code/FlickrService.php).
The fix was straightforward after perusing some of the forums as many people have encountered this error.
Change
$current_url = Director::currentURLSegment();
to
$current_url = Controller::curr()->URLSegment;
2 - Light box does not work. Clicking the image, does not render a popup, but redirects to a new page with the image.
There is a conflict between the two prototype includes: jsparty/prototype.js and flickrservice/javascript/prototype.js. The gallery includes the jsparty prototype for commenting. I turned off commenting, but the jsparty prototype js file was still included.
In FlickrGallery.php, i block the jsparty/prototype include.
In FlickrGallery.php, find the init() function (line ~82) and add the following:
Requirements::block("jsparty/prototype.js");
This resolves the prototype conflict issue and the lightbox feature should work.
These are both band aid fixes and I hope that future improvements to Silverstripe
will address this. Silverstripe is still a wonderful framework for web development
and we will continue to use it.
We recently launched a client site using Silverstripe and Flickr and here it is at:
Andrew Field Music.
