I am having trouble displaying country specific content.
I have a page (in this example called mypage) and it has some country specific content (called $ukContent).
I have a php function that returns a country code (called getCountry()).
In this situation 'mypage' can be a generic page that may or may not contain some country-specific content, so I need check both that the country code is UK and that there is specific uk content when i go to render the page.

Right now I have this:

    <% control Page(mypage) %>
        <% control Top.getCountry %>

	    <% if CountryCode == GB %>
		<% if ukContent %>
			$ukContent
		<% else %>
			$content
		<% end_if %>
	    <% else %>
		$content
	    <% end_if %>

        <% end_control %>
    <% end_control %>

My problem is that once I go into the 'Top.getCountry' section, I no longer have access to the $ukContent variable (from the 'Page(mypage)' section').
Is there a better way of handling country-specific content? Ideally the solution would allow me to continue the pattern of having optional country-specific content variables on each of my pages.

Any help would be much appreciated.

I think you need to simplify things.

You could put getCountry() in the init() method, so CountryCode is available immediately on page load.

class Page_Controller extends ContentController {
	public $CountryCode = null;

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

		$this->CountryCode = $this->getCountry();
	}
}

Then you could do:

<% control Page(mypage) %>
	<% if CountryCode == GB %> 
		<% if ukContent %> 
			$ukContent 
		<% else %> 
			$Content 
		<% end_if %> 
	<% else %> 
		$Content 
	<% end_if %>
<% end_control %>

Thanks for the reply.
I have tried implementing your suggestion, however I don't seem to be able to access $CountryCode from within my Page control. If I type $Top.CountryCode I can see it, but this doesn't work within an 'if' condition.
If I define CountryCode in the 'Page' class it works. But not sure if this is where I should be putting it?

To be clear, I have something like this:

class Page extends SiteTree {
    public $CountryCode = 'XX';
}
class Page_Controller extends ContentController {
    public $CountryCode = 'YY';
}

and putting something like this in my template:

<% control Page(mypage) %>
    $CountryCode
    $Top.CountryCode
<% end_control %>

outputs: XX YY

so <% if CountryCode == NZ %> would work only if I was defining my country code in Page and not PageController.
and <% if Top.CountryCode == NZ %> seems to cause my page not to load.

Sorry if this is obvious stuff, but I am new to SilverStripe.
Cheers.