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Newbe and template question

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jonny76

Community Member, 1 Post

25 November 2011 at 1:27am

Hi all,

Just started using silverstripe and have come across a problem and cant find the solution, wondered if anyone could help?

I have used a pre built module for creating custom menu's.

http://www.silverstripe.org/all-other-modules/show/11290?start=0

This adds the adds simple custom menus. I have then extended the a custom HomePage Class to be able to save a menu to a page.

Ok this all works great.

Next In the AboutPage_controller Class Ive added this function

public function returnRightMenu()
    {
        $menuID = $this->dataRecord->RMenuID;
        if(DataObject::get_one('CustomMenuHolder',"ID = '$menuID'")) 
        {
        
             $menu = DataObject::get_one('CustomMenuHolder',"ID = '$menuID'");

             if($menu->Order)
             $order = explode(',', $menu->Order);

             $pages = new DataObjectSet();

             if(isset($order) && is_array($order) && count($order) > 0) 
             {
                foreach($order as $item) 
                {
                    $pages->push($menu->Pages()->find('ID',$item));
                }
             } 
             else 
             {
                foreach($menu->Pages() as $item) 
                {
                    $pages->push($item);
                }
            }

            if($pages->exists())

            return $pages;
        }
    }

This runs off and retrieves the the menu data which is returned as array of page data objects.

Next. On the AboutPage.ss file i have created a custom controller

<% control returnRightMenu  %>

$Title<br />

<% end_control %>

This throws a white screen and in the error logs i get

PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function obj() on a non-object in

If i replace the "$Title" part with static "Title" it loops throught the correct amount of menu options and displays the word Title the corect amount of times.

My question is, how can I get it to display the dynamic content from the controller?

I assume $Title would work and it doesnt. I also did a print_r of what is returned from the returnRightMenu() function and got this

DataObjectSet Object
(
[items:protected] => Array
(
[0] =>
[1] => Page Object
(
[destroyed] =>
[record:protected] => Array
(
[ClassName] => Page
[Created] => 2011-11-22 17:10:44
[LastEdited] => 2011-11-22 17:10:55
[URLSegment] => technology
[Title] => Technology
[MetaTitle] => Technology
[ShowInMenus] => 1
[ShowInSearch] => 1
[ProvideComments] => 0
[Sort] => 3
[HasBrokenFile] => 0
[HasBrokenLink] => 0
[Status] => Published
[CanViewType] => Inherit
[CanEditType] => Inherit
[Version] => 2
[ParentID] => 2
[ID] => 20
[RecordClassName] => Page
)

[changed:private] => Array
(
)

[original:protected] => Array
(
[ClassName] => Page
[Created] => 2011-11-22 17:10:44
[LastEdited] => 2011-11-22 17:10:55
[URLSegment] => technology
[Title] => Technology
[MetaTitle] => Technology
[ShowInMenus] => 1
[ShowInSearch] => 1
[ProvideComments] => 0
[Sort] => 3
[HasBrokenFile] => 0
[HasBrokenLink] => 0
[Status] => Published
[CanViewType] => Inherit
[CanEditType] => Inherit
[Version] => 2
[ParentID] => 2
[ID] => 20
[RecordClassName] => Page
)

[components:protected] =>
[brokenOnDelete:protected] =>
[brokenOnWrite:protected] =>
[componentCache:protected] =>
[iteratorPos:protected] =>
[iteratorTotalItems:protected] =>
[failover:protected] =>
[customisedObject:protected] =>
[objCache:private] => Array
(
)

[class] => Page
[extension_instances:protected] => Array
(
[CustomMenuDecorator] => CustomMenuDecorator Object
(
[owner:protected] =>
[ownerBaseClass:protected] => SiteTree
[ownerRefs:private] => 0
[class] => CustomMenuDecorator
)

[Hierarchy] => Hierarchy Object
(
[markedNodes:protected] =>
[markingFilter:protected] =>
[_cache_numChildren:protected] =>
[owner:protected] =>
[ownerBaseClass:protected] => SiteTree
[ownerRefs:private] => 0
[class] => Hierarchy
)

[Versioned] => Versioned Object
(
[stages:protected] => Array
(
[0] => Stage
[1] => Live
)

[defaultStage:protected] => Stage
[liveStage:protected] => Live
[migratingVersion] =>
[owner:protected] =>
[ownerBaseClass:protected] => SiteTree
[ownerRefs:private] => 0
[class] => Versioned
)

)

[2] => Page Object
(
[destroyed] =>
[record:protected] => Array
(
[ClassName] => Page
[Created] => 2011-11-22 17:11:28
[LastEdited] => 2011-11-22 17:11:38
[URLSegment] => excellence
[Title] => Excellence
[MetaTitle] => Excellence
[ShowInMenus] => 1
[ShowInSearch] => 1
[ProvideComments] => 0
[Sort] => 4
[HasBrokenFile] => 0
[HasBrokenLink] => 0
[Status] => Published
[CanViewType] => Inherit
[CanEditType] => Inherit
[Version] => 2
[ParentID] => 2
[ID] => 22
[RecordClassName] => Page
)

[changed:private] => Array
(
)

[original:protected] => Array
(
[ClassName] => Page
[Created] => 2011-11-22 17:11:28
[LastEdited] => 2011-11-22 17:11:38
[URLSegment] => excellence
[Title] => Excellence
[MetaTitle] => Excellence
[ShowInMenus] => 1
[ShowInSearch] => 1
[ProvideComments] => 0
[Sort] => 4
[HasBrokenFile] => 0
[HasBrokenLink] => 0
[Status] => Published
[CanViewType] => Inherit
[CanEditType] => Inherit
[Version] => 2
[ParentID] => 2
[ID] => 22
[RecordClassName] => Page
)

[Versioned] => Versioned Object
(
[stages:protected] => Array
(
[0] => Stage
[1] => Live
)

[defaultStage:protected] => Stage
[liveStage:protected] => Live
[migratingVersion] =>
[owner:protected] =>
[ownerBaseClass:protected] => SiteTree
[ownerRefs:private] => 0
[class] => Versioned
)

)

[odd:protected] => 0
[first:protected] => 1
[last:protected] =>
[current:protected] =>
[pageStart:protected] =>
[pageLength:protected] =>
[totalSize:protected] =>
[paginationGetVar:protected] => start
[iteratorPos:protected] =>
[iteratorTotalItems:protected] =>
[failover:protected] =>
[customisedObject:protected] =>
[objCache:private] => Array
(
)

[class] => DataObjectSet
[extension_instances:protected] => Array
(
)

)

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