Hello Everybody,

in general, I would like to different include templates in different pages regarding to the top-menue page the current page is a child of. So if you have PA, PB and PC in TopNavi i want all pages under PA to <% include template_a %>, PB <% include template_b %>, etc.

My current approach is to have a GetTemplate() method in the page controller that returns the tempate name by checking the parent page id's. The problem in this is how to include the returned template.

<% include GetTemplate %> seems to do nothing and
<% include $GetTemplate %> displays exactly this line, at least containing the template name returned by GetTemplate().

Is there a possibility at all to include dynamically generated template names?
Or is the approach generally bad and tehre is another, better one?

Thanks a lot for any hint

SF

Hmm....

Thanks for these two good workarounds. Anyway, I won't use none of them. The first one is just too many if blocks, getting even more complicated when you want to have a default template that gets included if none of the conditions fits. Since templates don't support a elseif condition this makes the thing even more ugly ;). Nevertheless I think this would be still the better solution.
The second one seems quite handy but results in a lot of redundant (template) code, what I always avoid at any cost.

What I did is writing a controller method that simply reads the required template and returns the code to the template.

Of course this approach isn't perfect neither, since template content doesn't get parsed by Silverstripe any more so you can't use any variables in the includes. But in my special case this isn't required.

Anyway, if just someone could help me out with the silverstripe var for the current project location, everything would be fine for now. ;)

Thx a lot
SF

Hi,

(don't know how to cite here)

> you will get the name of the project by calling "project()", in the normal case that is "mysite"
Thanks for this one, but i was looking for the path of the project within the filesystem (to avoid the several dirname(__FILE__)'s)

> I hope that I don't tell you something wrong here, but I believe there is a else_if in template.
After some research you're right! Had problems with if_else till today since it doesn't exactly work like expected (see http://www.silverstripe.org/template-questions/show/8210) (another fish there, btw ;))

> anyway, for the solution with renderWith() I don't quiet understand where that should bring redundant template code.
If i understood yor last idea correctly, Include_PA.ss, Include_PB.ss, Include_PC.ss (and the others) would look pretty similar, containing all html headers and all page container stuff. They would only differ in the area that I tried to include dynamically.

Chers
SF

Hi
Just getting back at ZauberFish' renderwith() example - there is no need to create lots of similar templates for the entire page. What you do is create the small different include templates you want, and then place

in the appropriate location in your overall page template, or wherever you want it. This is in fact a very nice solution, I think