Comet Components is an active work in progress. These docs and the code currently available via GitHub and Packagist should be considered an incomplete alpha release.

SilverStripe CMS integration development

Not yet available

The SilverStripe integration for Comet Components is not yet available. It is on the roadmap and these docs are being written in tandem with the development of the integration.

Important

The SilverStripe CMS integration is being developed for SilverStripe CMS version 6.

Info

This section of the docs covers developing the SilverStripe CMS Elemental integration for Comet Components itself.

For guidance on implementing Comet Components in your own SilverStripe CMS projects beyond what the official Comet integration provides, see the SilverStripe usage section.

Prerequisites

  • Local SilverStripe CMS installation to use for testing
  • Elemental installed and configured in your SilverStripe test site
  • Local dev setup for the Comet Components project as a whole.

Tips

Turning on HTTPS for the test site in Laravel Herd will automatically create an Nginx config file in the following location. You can add any additional configuration required for SilverStripe to this file.

C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\.config\herd\config\valet\Nginx\your-site.test.conf

Recommendations

If using Laravel Herd Pro to run the local site, it is recommended to have Symfony VarDumper installed as a dev dependency in your SilverStripe project so you can use dump() for debugging and have your output appear in the Dumps window in Herd.

Troubleshooting

Changes to theme/config not taking effect

Flush the cache:

vendor/bin/sake dev/build flush=all
"Parse error" when trying to do things in the CMS

If you have herd_auto_prepend_file and herd_auto_prepend_file set in your php.ini file for core library development, comment them out. This is because this config file affects all sites using the same PHP version.

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