modules.md

Interesting Modules

This is a curated list of interesting SS3 modules. I'll try my best to keep it up to date. If you have anything to add or change, please do so by submitting a ticket or a pull request.

NOTE: http://addons.silverstripe.org has become the go-to place for searching for SilverStripe addons and themes. As it will develop, this list will become of less interest. Not all modules are on Packagist (and thus on http://addons.silverstripe.org) yet though, so it's recommendable to have a look at both, and also to do your own research.

Frontend

Module	Notes
Blog	The blog module allows you to post blogs on your SilverStripe.
Userforms	UserForms enables CMS users to create dynamic forms via a drag and drop interface and without getting involved in any PHP code.
Forum	Forum module for SilverStripe CMS
Galleries	Foldergallery module for SS3, Frank Mullenger's Simple Gallery, DisplayAnything3
Dataobject as Pages	This is a simple module for adding dataobject as pages functionality on silverstripe 3, can be used for news, products or anything you can think of that doesnt need to appear in the sitetree.
Slideshow	Slideshow module for ss3 based on jQuery Cycle plugin.
Event Calendar
Polls
iFrame	Add an iFrame pagetype to SilverStripe, to show content from another website
Memberprofiles	A module to allow the creation of registration and profile management pages with custom fields and validation.
News	A basic news article module, including page types and functionality common to a news archive
News	A basic news article module that doesn't use the SiteTree to prevent clutter. Supports comments, tags and url-history.
Contact Form	By Uncle Cheese/Bluehouse Group

Third Party Integrations

Module	Notes
Disqus

Backend

CMS Customization

Module	Notes
Dashboard	The Dashbaord module provides a splash page for the CMS in SilverStripe 3 with configurable widgets that display relevant information.
Widgets	Previously I've used other branches, but it seems, this one is the current now
Silverstripe Lite	simple CMS interface for final clients
Menu Manager	The menu management module is for creating custom menu structures when the site tree hierarchy just won't do.
Custom Menus	Adds the ability to create multiple menu's in the CMS and then render them using a custom control
insideManual	Add a manual to your SilverStripe backend and assign pagetypes to your chapters, to make a help tab appear whenever someone works on this kind of pagetype
usertemplates	A SilverStripe module for creating templates within the CMS that can override those defined in the theme, for both Layout and main templates

GridField

Module	Notes
GridFieldRelationHandler	This module provides two GridField components that aid in managing relationships within SilverStripe, the GridFieldHasOneRelationHandler (provides radio buttons for selecting the object that the has_one points to) and the GridFieldManyRelationHandler (provides check boxes for selecting the objects that a has_many or many_many point to)
GridFieldBulkEditingTools	SilverStripe 3 GridField component set to facilitate bulk image upload, bulk record editing, unlinking and deleting.
SortableGridField	Adds drag and drop functionality to SilverStripe 3's GridField
Blog-extension by Tyler	This "module" just extends the blog module and decorates the BlogEntry and BlogHolder models to allow managing your blog with the GridField instead of pages - even though they're still pages.
GridfieldAjaxRefresh	Adds the ability to either automatically or manually refresh a SilverStripe GridField
GridfieldExtensions	3 components: GridFieldAddExistingSearchButton - a more advanced search form for adding items & GridFieldOrderableRows - drag and drop re-ordering of rows, GridFieldAddNewMultiClass - lets the user select from a list of classes to create a new record from
GridfieldDetailFormAddNew	Gives CMS users the ability to add a new item directly from the GridField DetailForm
GridfieldGalleryTheme	SS3 GridField component that attempt to change the GridField layout into an basic gallery view. (Still in dev)
InlineGridField	excel style gridfield
BetterButtons
Pickerfield	SilverStripe 3 GridField based management of has_one , has_many , and many_many relationship selection

Other

Module	Notes
Newsletter	See also Newsletter Emogrify, and Newsletter, view archive
Largeblog	Customised modeladmin interface for managing Blog Entries on large silverstripe sites

Core Functionality Extension

Module	Notes
ShortCodes	Don't forget these. See this tutorial (for SS 2.4), and this module (a collection of ShortCodes for SS3).
Sitemap	Works with SS3 though the Readme says 2.x
Google Sitemaps
Robots	Simple robots generation module
Versioned Files	A module to allow for the replacement and version management of asset files
REST	Restfulserver and Restassured
ExcludeChildren	Exclude children of configurable classes from showing up in the sitetree
VersionedGridfield	This module provides a gridfield detail form, with the asscoiated actions required for managing versioned objects, eg SiteTree descendants. This comes in handy especially when using a modeladmin to manage parts of the sitetree.
Datelink	Allows you to add wordpress style year/month URLs to time-sensitive sections of your website
Restricted Objects	A SilverStripe module to lock down object access, for the CMS as well as non-page objects
Usertemplates	A SilverStripe module for creating templates within the CMS that can override those defined in the theme, for both Layout and main templates
Publishable Objects	A SilverStripe module for making arbitrary Data Objects publishable
Auth External	This module enables you to use external authentication sources for password verification. At the moment this module has 4 drivers. LDAP, FTP, IMAP and HTTPBASIC. The IMAP driver also supports POP3. All drivers support SSL
opauth
Optimistic Locking	Prevent overwriting data by blocking the save process when the data changed since retrieval (using a timestamp)
Viewcounter	Tracks views for any DataObject, can be used to show number of hits or calculate most popular content
Redirection of Legacy URLS	old-urls or linkmapping

Subsites

Module	Notes
Subsites	The official subsites module
Multisites	Allows for multiple websites to be managed through a single site tree, an alternative module to the Subsites module.

Multi Language Sites

Module	Notes
Translateable
Langbuilder	terminal lang builder for silverstripe3 that creates en.yml files
TranslatableDataObject	By Uncle Cheese
Translatable-dataobject	By Bummzack

Form Extensions

Module	Notes
Bootstrap Forms	Allows the creation of forms compatible with the Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework in SilverStripe
Foundation Forms	SilverStripe 3 Forms Compatible with Zurb Foundation Framework
Requiredfieldscms	This DataExtension reads the required fields for a DataObject and will add a 'required' class to these fields
Hiddenfields	Takes form fields you specified through $hidden_fields and hides them from the edit form
Manymessage	This DataExtension adds a notice to CMS form when relations are not available before the form is saved by the user
Description	Autopopulate field descriptions to form fields

Custom Fields

Module	Notes
Markdowneditorfield
Markdown	SilverStripe module that adds a field and a data type that allows for Markdown editing, uses the github api to render the html
HTMLField	A CodeMirror-powered HTML field
MultiValueField	A fieldtype that makes it possible to store arrays of data (serialised) in the DB. Useful if you have many fields that you don't want to normalise out over many joins
QuickAddNew	A decorator for a form field that manages as has_one relation, to allow adding a new object on the fly
Select2	Form field based on select2, which is an extension of the Chosen dropdown
Tagfield
SortableFile	An extension that allows sorting of multiple attached images (extends UploadField)
AutoCompleteField
SimpleTreeDropdownField	A simple, but flexible alternative for use where the TreeDropdownField isn't suitable.
ZenautocompleteField	A basic autocomplete text field using jquery ui
TimepickerField	A time picker field based on jQuery UI Timepicker By François Gélinas http://fgelinas.com/code/timepicker/
Dynamiclists	User controlled data lists that can be used in form fields
Colorpicker	or by UndefinedOffset, or mlewis-everley
Timezone Dropdownfield
Timezone Awareness	ss2.x
i18enum	Translatable Enum fieldtype
htmlfield	Provides a CodeMirror-powered field for pleasant editing of raw HTML code.
i18-fieldtypes	better i18n fieldtypes for currency & date

Spam Protection

Module	Notes
Spamprotection
Recaptcha

Extensions

Module	Notes
Addressable	from AjShort, or Unce Cheese's Mappable

Search

Module	Notes
FulltextSearch	Not released yet - there is a description though

Images

Module	Notes
Retina Images

PDF Rendering

Module	Notes
wkhtmltopdf
topdf
dompdf

Feeds

Module	Notes
Vimeo Service

Data Handling/Presentation

Module	Notes
DMS	Document Management System
registry	This module allows a website user to search, find details for, and export search results for a particular type of data. One example this could be used for is a listing of staff members.
sitemedia	Add and manage a common library of Media from your Pages and DataObjects
Sections	Split your page content into manageable blocks/sections of content, each with their own template

Social Media

Module	Notes
Facebook SDK	Simple Silverstripe wrapper for the facebook PHP SDK
Opengraph	Implementation of the Facebook Opengraph protocol for Silverstripe
Twitter Feed
Connect backend to Twitter	This is not a full "user-connect" plugin. It just plugs into the backend to allow backend actions to be published to Social Media. Updates asap.

Utilities

Module	Notes
Silverstripe Tools	Misc tools, including BetterImage, FAQPage, StyledEmail and YoutubeShortCode
Serverstatus
Comments Notifications	Simple email notifications for comments posted against the Comments module
Framework Test	Aids core and module developers in testing their code against a set of sample data and behaviour.
Silverstripe Ipsum	A lorem ipsum text generator built on SilverStripe 3
Syncrotron	A SilverStripe module for performing automated synchronisation of data between systems
Subtypeable	A DataExtension which provides a get_class_dropdown method to DataObjects which can be used to display a list of possible object subtypes in the CMS.
URLDataObject	A DataExtension which gives any DataObject a unique URLDataObject field similar to all descendents of SiteTree.

External data

Module	Notes
External Content	The base external content module
Static Site Connector	Connector plugin for the SilverStripe External Content module that uses web scraping to import content.

Emailing

Silverstripe core mailing is a little clunky (see ticket)

Module	Notes
SMTP Mailer
Mailer	for Postmark
Testmailer	(forked by me)
Inline Styles Emailing
Logging mailer	(I might have some improvements for this from the PHH app)
Pop3Message	Class for retrieving emails from a pop3 server and storing them locally (including attachments)
Email Helpers	Silverstripe extension containing SMTP mailer class and some other classes for HTML emails

Ecommerce

Module	Notes
Payment

Performance

Module	Notes
Dynamic Cache	Simple on the fly caching of dynamic content for Silverstripe
staticpublishqueue	This module allows you to build static HTML caches of every page (for increased security and performance)
Xhprof	A ui can be found on http://xhprof.io

Development Phase

Module	Notes
Securetest	Ensures that non-live websites are only accessible with a valid user login

Complete Systems (Sites/Webapps)

Module	Notes
SilverTicket
SilverTwit	An entire project. Probably some good examples on a SS3 web app
Silverstripe Express
Knowledgebase	Knowledge base module for silverstripe; Basic FAQ, categorisation, and article search (SS2.x)
Silverstripe Ipsum	A lorem ipsum text generator built on SilverStripe 3

Candidates for SS3 Upgrade

Module	Notes
Genericviews	Generic frontend