Slide from my presentation of the NZYP Casestudy at the 27th Oct 2011 SilverStripe CMS Meetup.

1. SilverStripe CMS
NZYP Case Study
SilverStripe Community Meetup
27th Oct 2011

2. First Up…
• NZYP/NZYPOD?
• New Zealand Young Professionals Online
Development.
• Joint Venture – Canterbury, Auckland &
Dunedin Young Professionals (or YPOs).
– Social and Business Events.
– Networking and Career Development.
– Discounts/Supporting from Local Business.

3. History

4. Early Days
• Initial brainstorms over a year ago.
• Originally to replace CYP’s website –
improving management of content.
• …but became apparent that YPOs do the same
things...we can create a turn-key set of
common tools for all YPOs!
• DRY concept… applied at a organisation
process level.

5. Standardise where it makes sense

6. …But lots of flexibility everywhere else

7. Who was involved?
Project Team
(Remote team based in Wellington
and Christchurch).
•Shea Dawson (Development and
Template Integration)
www.livesource.co.nz
•Simon Waterhouse (Design, Layout
and Photography)
www.pxl.co.nz
•Cam Findlay (Project
Management, Development)
www.camfindlay.com

8. Project Objectives
1. Engage and communicate better with
members to encourage growth and increase
value of membership.
2. Turn-Key & scalable system for
YPOs, efficiency in development and on-
going costs.
3. Improve and automate processes that are
currently time consuming.

9. Why SilverStripe CMS?

10. Some Interesting Bits…
1. The Great Wall Of Subsites
2. Colouring-In For Big Kids
3. New Module - APES

11. The Great Wall Of Subsites

12. Single Site
Content/Pages/SiteConfig
Images/Files
Members
Blog Comments
DataObjects

13. Default Subsites
Content/Pages/SiteConfig Content/Pages/SiteConfig
Images/Files Images/Files
Members
Blog Comments
DataObjects (Sponsors, Events, Benefits etc)

14. The Brick Wall
Content/Pages/SiteConfig Content/Pages/SiteConfig
Images/Files Images/Files
Members Members
Blog Comments Blog Comments
DataObjects DataObjects

15. Brick Wall with Decorators
function extraStatics() {
return array(
'has_one' => array(
'Subsite' => 'Subsite',
),
);
}
function augmentSQL(SQLQuery &$query) {
[…] Code here to pre-filter for the current Subsite SQL query […]
}
function onBeforeWrite() {
if (!$this->owner->ID && !$this->owner->SubsiteID) {
if (self::$default_root_folders_global) {
$this->owner->SubsiteID = 0;
} else {
$this->owner->SubsiteID = Subsite::currentSubsiteID();
}
}
}

16. Colouring-In For Big Kids!
Custom Branding & Design with
Custom SiteConfig

17. Custom SiteConfig – More Decorators!
function extraStatics(){
return array(
'db' => array(
'BrandingBackgroundAlign'=>"Enum('Repeat,Centre','Repeat')",
'BrandingHighlightColour' => 'Varchar(6)',
[…]
‘MembershipType'=>"Enum('Paid,Free','Paid')",
'MembershipModel'=>"Enum('Fixed,Rolling','Fixed')",
[...]
'FacebookURL' => 'Varchar(255)',
'Twitter' => 'Varchar(255)',
[...]
),
'has_one' => array(
'BrandingLogo' => 'Image',
'BrandingHeader' => 'Image',
'BrandingBackground' => 'Image',
'BrandingFontHeader'=>'GoogleFont',
'BrandingFontBody'=>'GoogleFont',
'Favicon' => 'File',
)
);
}

18. …Take your stinking paws off me
you damn dirty…
APES
(Automated Provision for Email
Services/Syncing)

19. APES - What does it do?
• Creates automatic data sync to 3rd party mail
services like MailChimp from SilverStripe
Members data.
• Simple install with API keys in SiteConfig&
setup in the config file.
• Provides other widgets and page types
around email sign up for email newsletters or
e-marketing campaigns.

20. APES – Basic Setup
_config.php
Object::add_extension('Member', 'MailChimp');
Object::add_extension('SiteConfig', 'MailChimpSiteConfig');
APES::setSyncFields(array('Birthday','Interests'));
Module Code - MailChimp
$api = new MCAPI($siteconfig->MailchimpApiKey);
$fields = APES::$syncFields;
$mergefields = array();
//check to see if they have set up extra merge fields, if not - set them up
foreach($api->listMergeVars($siteconfig->MailchimpListId) as $merge){
$mergefields[] = $merge['name'];
}
foreach($fields as $field){
if(!in_array($field, $mergefields)){
$tag = strtoupper(substr($field,0,8));
$api->listMergeVarAdd($siteconfig->MailchimpListId, $tag, $field, array('field_type'=>'text') );
}
}

21. Where can I get it?
Click here to get the code

22. Project Outcome
• Completed on time, on budget and to the
scope/quality.
• The system covered all the objectives that
were set out at the beginning.
• However… the “iron-triangle” does not
guarantee a project success… especially in IT
projects.

23. Defining Success
1. Success is more than just time, cost & quality.
2. We implemented the DeLone& McLean
Information Systems Success Model as part
of the project success criteria.
3. This research adds some additional key
indicators of success for IT projects.

24. D & M IS Success Model
Information
Quality
Intention to
Use/Use
System
Net Benefits
Quality
User Satisfaction
Service
Quality

25. Original Website

26. New Website

28. Thank You
cam@camfindlay.com
@cameronfindlay