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SilverStripe's Sigurd Magnusson on YouTube

By Bryan - Posted on 25 October 2007

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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#1 Silverstripe

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Submitted by Aaron Mentele (not verified) on October 25, 2007 - 8:10am.

These guys have a lot of good stuff going on right now - very cool that Google is getting behind teams like this. I met Sigurd a few weeks ago, got a bit of background from the source.

#2 Thanks guys

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Submitted by Sigurd Magnusson (not verified) on October 26, 2007 - 9:50pm.
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)

#3 Sigurd,  Interesting that

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Submitted by Bryan on October 27, 2007 - 3:29pm.

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.

#4 Why not use Drupal? Thats

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Submitted by matt (not verified) on August 16, 2008 - 1:49pm.

Why not use Drupal? Thats what I use for my Visual Basic Source site and it works great!

#5 This can be done by the

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on October 27, 2007 - 5:48pm.

"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.

#6 PHP4

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Submitted by Cesar Rodas (not verified) on January 30, 2008 - 1:22pm.

I have code a class for php4 that emulate the magic method __call on php5.

The code will be protected under BSD license... :)

It will be hosted on the phpclasses site.

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Bryan Ruby is the owner and editor for CMS Report. He founded CMSReport.com in 2006 on the belief that information technologists, website owners, and web developers desired visiting sites where they could learn about content management systems without the sales pitch.

Outside of his late night blogging hours, he is the Information Technology Officer for a field office in the federal government. Away from the computer he enjoys his family, bicycling, camping, and the outdoors.