Announcing My First SilverStripe Widget
As you’ve noticed, I haven’t blogged in a while. Mainly because of working on the GHOP Contest. You can read more details about it on the site. The open source project I picked is SilverStripe. It’s basically a PHP framework that gives user-friendlyness to website authors but at the same time offer a quick and easy development framework for developers.
I’ve already finished translations for two modules and a quality assurance task. My fourth task was to build a widget. I chose to build a countdown widget because I thought that’d probably be more useful. If you want me help test it, you can download it here.
There are five event types you can choose. The widget will automatically detect/generate a pattern, so this is a one time configuration thing. Just enter in the first occurrence of an event, and you’re set. To make it timezone independent, you do have to make sure the date and time is in the same timezone as your server’s time.
