Submitted by Bryan on

Sigurd Magnusson wrote to us letting us know about a YouTube video where he talks about his company's content management system, SilverStripe. The video was recorded while at a recent function at Google for software developers.

Here's some interesting content for both you and your readers, providing a  quick overview of our project, company and our success with the Google  Summer of Code project.  :-)

So get the popcorn out and open your favorite beverage and feel free to watch this fifteeen minute video!  By the way...before the video, I didn't realize that SilverStripe was already PHP5 only.

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Thanks guys

Sigurd Magnusson's picture

Cheers Bryan & Aaron :)

Yeah, back in 2005 we made the decision to Go PHP5, and in doing so we've brought the virtues of Ruby On Rails to PHP. Many of the elegant programming principals which Rails got its popularity from have been lurking in PHP for a while, but are impossible in PHP4. (E.g. __call to emulate functions that dont exist)

Sigurd,  Interesting that

Bryan's picture

Sigurd,  Interesting that you brought up Ruby on Rails and it seems that there is some things you like about that framework.  Was there any particular reasons you decided to go with PHP5 instead of RoR for SilverStripe?  I've been fascinated lately with those projects using Ruby or Python for their Web CMS....though I've never personally found a need to go that route.

This can be done by the

Anonymous's picture

"but are impossible in PHP4. (E.g. __call to emulate functions that dont exist)"

This can be done by the overload extension in PHP4. CakePHP uses this idea.