Adding field to member

Questions
1

Silverstripe Version:
latest
Question:
Just trying to get back into SS, it’s been a while so starting over slowly again… but if someone could point out what i did wrong when i tried to extend a member to add a field?
I did the following:

i added a file app/_config/config.yml with

SilverStripe\Security\Member:
  extensions:
    - MyMemberExtension

Created a new file in my app\src\extensions\MyMemberExtension.php

<?php

use SilverStripe\ORM\DataExtension;

class MyMemberExtension extends DataExtension 
{
    // define additional properties
    private static $db = [
	'MowerName' => 'Varchar'
     ]; 
}

Then did a /dev/build on my site, and now my site looks like it’s missing tags and only half there, and the admin screen is very screwy as well.

I followed Extensions – SilverStripe Documentation

If someone could point out what i’ve done wrong?
Thanks
Grant

2

Nothing jumps out in the code you posted. It may be that you are seeing the result of a different issue.
When you did the build, were your new fields added to the member table?

A couple of other questions:

  • Is the site in dev mode?
  • Are there any errors shown?
  • Are you seeing errors in the browser console?
3

Hi ya,
Took me a couple of days to get back to this, but turns out it was my app/_config.php file, i don’t think that notepad++ put a cr/lf after the <?php… ??
Anyhow - i think it’s fixed.

Thanks
Grant