Familiar with SilverStripe? What are your opinions/impressions? [closed]

Question

I'm trying to pick a good CMS that isn't a portal. All of my research as lead me to believe SilverStipe is the best option. I'd like some opinions/impressions.

Thanks for any thoughts you have.

edit: I've decided to try it out. I'll post my own answer after I've had some time with it. It seems like based on the lack of a response there isn't a large user base. (At least who intersect with the Stack Overflow community.)

Answer 1

I just stumbled upon Silverstripe / Sapphire a week ago or so (now is the 3rd November 2008) and I was amazed. This seems to be an underestimated piece of software. I'm not such a pro that I could say it for sure but I believe their code is very solid, clean and intelligent. They just got and award for the most promising open source CMS which might be a hint in the same direction.

• The CMS still lacks the vast amount of plugins and modules if you compare it with Joomla or Drupal but their code seems more advanced.
• The whole CMS uses the active record pattern approach and a clean MVC design. If you create a new pagetype you can add new db-fields in the page class, flush the db built via url and the cms inserts the new tables and fields.
• Building templates is easier compared to Joomla for example, thanks to MVC and thanks to a two level approach using templates and subtemplates called layouts. E.g. if you have a page type called "BlogPage" the "BlogPage" Class first looks for a "BlogPage" template and if it doesn't find it it looks for a "BlogPage" layout and inserts it at the given place in the template.

That's just my first impression after a few days of dabbling around with it.