atwx / silverstripe-projectinfo

1.2.2 2026-08-28 07:42 UTC

Requires

• ext-zip: *
• silverstripe/admin: ^3
• silverstripe/framework: ^6
• spatie/db-dumper: ^3.4

BSD-3-Clause

• database
• cms
• project
• silverstripe

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-08-28 13:36 UTC

README

Tells you what a Silverstripe install is running on, hands out its database and assets, and lets you reach another install from your own command line.

The module wears two hats depending on where it is installed. On a live site it exposes the panel and the export endpoints, so the site can be copied and inspected. On a development machine it provides the tasks that go and fetch that copy, or run a build task on the live site without opening a browser. Installing it in both places is the normal case.

Installation

composer require atwx/silverstripe-projectinfo

Nothing needs configuring for the settings panel, and nothing else has to be installed for it.

The Project Info panel

ProjectInfoExtension adds a Project Info tab to the CMS settings area showing the database name and the size of the assets directory, with buttons for the export endpoints below it.

LeftAndMainBackupExport puts those endpoints on the settings controller:

Endpoint	Returns
admin/settings/doBackup	a .sql dump of the database
admin/settings/doDownloadAssets	every asset as one ZIP
admin/settings/doListAssets	the asset tree as JSON
admin/settings/doDownloadAsset?path=…	one asset by its relative path

The methods carry no permission check of their own. They are actions on the settings controller, and it is LeftAndMain that gates them: an unauthenticated request to any of the four is redirected to the login. Keep them there — moved onto a plain Controller they would hand out the database to anyone.

The last two exist because a large assets directory is better fetched file by file than as a single archive that times out, which is exactly what tasks:pull-live does.

Pulling this site somewhere else

The endpoints above are what atwx/silverstripe-gate-tasks reads when it copies a site onto a development machine. That module used to live here; it moved out so this one could go back to being about the panel and the export.

Requirements

Silverstripe 6 and silverstripe/admin 3, which between them settle the PHP version. Dumping uses spatie/db-dumper.