Hi:

Under normal condition, I have to create page manually on backend admin panel.
How can I create a page via Yml config file.

Please look at at this page, http://api.silverstripe.org/3.1/class-YamlFixture.html
It seems possible.

I ask this because of I do not want to create a page multiple time on local, testing, and live machine.

regards,

anru

Hi Anru,
I understand the confusion, but this YAML config is used in the testing environment to create a setup for testing purposes. So the test uses these pages instead of the actual pages from the database. So these settings aren't actually ever written to db.

You can however create pages using the requireDefaultRecords() function, for instance in your Page class. And it should be easy to set up a similar config in your YAML, and read that from this function.

Here's a really simple example, but google will give you more: http://www.silverstripe.org/community/forums/general-questions/show/21779

Ok, Find a way to set up a site's basic page by code.

I have built a class extends BuildTask , in the class, I have used following code to create page.

if(class_exists('ContactPage')&& !DataObject::get_one('ContactPage')){
$page = new ContactPage();
$page->Title = _t("Contact");
$page->Content = '';
$page->URLSegment = 'contact';
$page->Status = 'Published';
$page->Sort = 1;
$page->write();
$page->doRestoreToStage();
$page->publish('Stage', 'Live');
$page->flushCache();
DB::alteration_message('Contact page created', 'created');
}

This way, I just have to run this task once, then all required pages are set up, and no need to manually create page.