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Francesco D'Agostino
Francesco D'Agostino

Reputation: 33

Silverstripe 3 - extend sitetree and layout

I'm a newbie in SilverStripe. I need to create a new page by extending a new class sitetree. My question is how to retrieve in the template something like $Layou which is used in the classic page.php. For example, in my template folder I would like to have a folder like "Layout" organized for new pages created from this.

this is the controller:

class WhitePage extends SiteTree {
    private static $db = array(
    );
    private static $has_one = array(
    );
}

class WhitePage_Controller extends ContentController {
    private static $allowed_actions = array(
    );

    public function init() {
        parent::init();
    }

    function index() {
        return $this->renderWith("WhitePage");
    }
}

i would like in the template directory create a folder name "whitepage" within the ".ss" file, and in the template use something like $whitepage instate of $Layout ...

How to do this?

thk, a lot Francesco

Upvotes: 1

Views: 506

Answers (1)

3dgoo
3dgoo

Reputation: 15794

You can use the master WhitePage.ss template with several page types by extending your WhitePage class. Then you can use the $Layout as normal to call your custom layout template.

WhitePage

class WhitePage extends SiteTree {
}

class WhitePage_Controller extends ContentController {
    private static $allowed_actions = array(
    );

    public function init() {
        parent::init();
    }
}

CustomWhitePage

class CustomWhitePage extends WhitePage {
}

class CustomWhitePage_Controller extends WhitePage_Controller {
    private static $allowed_actions = array(
    );

    public function init() {
        parent::init();
    }
}

In your themes/mytheme folder or mysite folder create your templates like so:

templates/Page.ss
templates/WhitePage.ss
templates/Layout/Page.ss
templates/Layout/WhitePage.ss
templates/Layout/CustomWhitePage.ss

Your Layout/WhitePage.ss and Layout/CustomWhitePage.ss will use the templates/WhitePage.ss parent template while any page that extends Page will use templates/Page.ss.

Make sure you call ?flush=all for your templates to be loaded the first time through.

Upvotes: 1

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