hey Guys,

i want to create a new pagetype, that loads just the $Content of another page.
so, the new pagetype has a new text DB field "showContent"

<?php
class CreatePopup extends SiteTree {
	static $db = array(
	   'showContent' => 'Text'
	);
	static $has_one = array(
   );

	function getCMSFields() {
		$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
		$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Content.Main', new TextField('showContent'), 'Content');
		return $fields;
	}
}

class CreatePopup_Controller extends ContentController {
	function init() {
		parent::init();
		
		Requirements::themedCSS("layout");
		Requirements::themedCSS("typography");
		Requirements::themedCSS("form");
	}
}
?>

in my "CreatePopup.ss" File i can write

Hello i am loading Content from http://www.yoursite.com/$showContent/

Then there is no error and the Content of "$showContent" is shown.
But now, i want to use this code..

<% control Page($showContent/) %>$Content<% end_control %>

So this PageType shoud show just the $Content of another Page. ("$showContent" contains the URLSegment of the page what should be loaded). But when i use this Variable in Control Page, i get this ERROR:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in /tmp/silverstripe-cache-srv-www-vhosts-domain.com-httpdocs/.cache.srv.www.vhosts.domain.com.httpdocs.themes.domain.templates.CreatePopup.ss on line 53 

Can someone Help me?

p.s.:
i tried to write a function in CreatePopup.php, but i'm not going on with it.. just many errors..

	function showControlContent($showContent) {
		$existingCont = DataObject::get_one("SiteTree", "URLSegment = '$showContent'");
		if($existingCont) {
			$makeControlPageContent = "<% control Page(".$showContent.") %>$Title<% end_control %>";
		return $makeControlPageContent;
		}
	}

hey boys ;)

I just put the "CreatePopup" pagetyp as childs of the pages..
so the "CreatePopup" pagetypes just make

$Parent.Content

so i dont need variable, dont need extra DB field and its better sortet i think.. (that content what should be shown is popup must have an popupchild ;) )

P.S.: why is it good, that Variables dont work in <% control Page(..) %> (or code segments like this).. they did not work just even with " /$variable " or " /$variable "..

want to clear this fact to understand it!

You've found one of the limits of the template engine. It passes everything inside the parenthesises as a string to the method.

A better way of doing what you were doing would be to use a has_one to SiteTree, something like:

<?php 
class CreatePopup extends SiteTree { 
   static $db = array( 
   ); 
   static $has_one = array( 
'showContent'=>'SiteTree',
);

   function getCMSFields() { 
      $fields = parent::getCMSFields(); 
      $fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Content.Main', new TreeDropdownField('showContentID', 'showContent', 'SiteTree'), 'Content'); 
      return $fields; 
   } 
}

class CreatePopup_Controller extends ContentController { 
   function init() { 
      parent::init(); 
       
      Requirements::themedCSS("layout"); 
      Requirements::themedCSS("typography"); 
      Requirements::themedCSS("form"); 
   } 
} 
?>

Then in your template you can use

 Hello i am loading Content from $showContent.AbsoluteLink

$showContent.Content