I'm trying to come from ModX over to SilverStipe, thinking there is more flexibility. There seems to be some limitations that are quite frustrating to me.

I understand the concept of MVC, so please don't post back saying this shouldn't be allowed.

From within the admin...let's say I am editing the Home page's content. How could I include another page directly from here. I know I can do it from within the templates, but I build pages for clients, and a large majority of clients don't need to know HTML if they are using a CMS.

Secondly, is it possible to call something like :<% control MyLinkedImage %><a href="$URL">$Image</a><% end_control %> from the content section of the HomePage? Again using the CMS?

I'm basically trying to find an easy way that my clients could include something or use controls that I've made for them without having to open a php or ss file.

Thanks.

Hi Senica,

I think you may want to look at creating short codes to embed functionality in the cms

http://doc.silverstripe.org/shortcodes
http://ssbits.com/2-4-using-short-codes-to-embed-a-youtube-video/

You can't include <% %> tags directly in content as the template parser doesn't also parse the database fields so the best way to include tokenized functionality it to use short codes. One limitation of the shortcodes is there is no way of showing all shortcodes in the CMS for a user so I normally also include a LiteralField before the Content which lists all the available codes.

Willr, Thanks! Yeah, this will work out nicely!