silverstripe

This script allows you to operate two distinct, fully functional SilverStripe instances and have the content of one synchronised with the other. When running a content management system in a corporate environment it is useful to have an internal 'development' site and a public 'production' site. SilverStripe has a couple of caching options, namely StaticPublisher and StaticExporter, but these generate static HTML files that cannot be easily modified by content editors.

This approach allows the development and production SilverStripe servers to be easily synchronised, but in between times, content editors are free to make different changes at each end. This is useful when internally the content of the website is undergoing significant change, but during this time the production website content must be 'maintained'.
i.e. You are not forced to 'freeze' your production website, or push internal changes out before they have been properly vetted.

The script copies the local SilverStripe MySQL database (sans page revisions) to the production site and synchronises the assets/Uploads directory.
Note: Page revisions are not sent to the production site because this takes a significant amount of time and bandwidth. Considering these revisions are stored on the internal development server, storing them in both locations is not necessary.

SilverStripe is an excellent, user-friendly content management system but its internal search functionality is, to put it kindly, useless. Fortunately with Google Site Search you can embed a Google-powered custom search engine into your SilverStripe site. Doing so requires a paid Site Search account, pricing for which starts at $100/year.

This tutorial explains how to integrate this Google Site Search XML feed into your SilverStripe site. Doing so has a number of benefits over the standard means of integrating Site Search, namely:

• No Javascript is required to display results within the SilverStripe site.
• The user is not taken to a separate, Google operated website to view results.
• The look and feel is consistent with the rest of the SilverStripe site.
• Multiple Site Search engines can be integrated into a single SilverStripe site.
• Site Search results pages are integrated into SilverStripe's management console.

Note: To integrate Site Search into SilverStripe using the described method a Site Search plan must be purchased as this provides results in XML. The free, advertising supported, Site Search engine does not provide search results in XML and cannot be used.