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Customising the CMS /

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Static page customization

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boompb

Community Member, 2 Posts

14 October 2013 at 10:02am

Edited: 14/10/2013 10:03am

I'm trying to create a static page with some customization in it.

In my ProjectPage.php i have:

class ProjectPage_Controller extends Page_Controller
{
	 function init()
	 {
		  parent::init();
	 }
	 
	 function myCustomFunction()
	 {
		  include('../../../ext/incl/test.php');
		  $name = 'BLAH';
		  echo '<a href="http://example.com/php/test.php?name='.$name.'">link</a>';
	 }

}

And in my ProjectPage.ss i have something like:

<div>
$myCustomFunction
</div>

The problem is the function is called BEFORE everything else (ie. before <html>) & not at the point between the divs.

Can anyone help as to why?

Cheers

zenmonkey

Community Member, 545 Posts

14 October 2013 at 6:23pm

I'm not sure on the full template processing pipeline but HTML is not genreated procedurally. Functions are processed then the HTML is genereted so if you want a function to output a value into the template at it's insertion point you need to use return instead of echo.

return '<a href="http://example.com/php/test.php?name='.$name.'">link</a>';

boompb

Community Member, 2 Posts

14 October 2013 at 6:30pm

Thanks!

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