I'm pretty new to Silverstripe and just setting up my first Silverstripe site..

I have setup a page called "Footer" in the CMS and have placed some relevant text in the "Content" field.

I would now like to include this content in my template - Similar to a global content block.

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi

I would do that slightly different. Instead of creating a Page called "Footer", create a new class named HomePage which you then assign to the Home-Page (as described in this tutorial: http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=tutorial:1-building-a-basic-site#using_a_different_template_for_the_home_page).

The HomePage class can then be used to store "global" fields like the footer, since there's mostly just one single HomePage. So your HomePage class could look like this:

?php
class HomePage extends Page
{
	public static $db = array(
		'Footer' => 'HTMLText'
	);
	
	public function getCMSFields()
	{
		$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
		
		$fields->addFieldToTab(
			'Root.Content.Main', 
			new HtmlEditorField('Footer')
		);
		
		return $fields;
	}
}

class HomePage_Controller extends MainPage_Controller {
}

That will take care of the Footer content. You can edit it, by editing the HomePage...
Now you just need a method to access your Footer-Content on any page. Here's how (make sure this in your Page.php file):

class Page {
	... contents of Page ...
}

class Page_Controller extends ContentController 
{	
	// this is the important part
	public function Footer(){
		$obj = SiteTree::get_one('HomePage');
		return $obj->Footer;
	}
}

Now you can simply place $Footer anywhere in your template and it should output the footer content.

I did this with 'HTMLText' but can not do it with 'Image' can you point out if there is something wrong in my code? thanks!

SliderPage.php

?php 
class HomePage extends Page 
{ 
public static $has_one = array(
      'Slider' => 'Image' 
   ); 
    
   public function getCMSFields() 
   { 
      $fields = parent::getCMSFields(); 
       
      $fields->addFieldToTab( 
         'Root.Content.Main', 
         new ImageField('Slider') 
      ); 
       
      return $fields; 
   } 
}

class HomePage_Controller extends MainPage_Controller { 
}

Page.php

class Page { 
   ... contents of Page ... 
}

class Page_Controller extends ContentController 
{    
   // this is the important part 
   public function Slider(){ 
      $obj = SiteTree::get_one('HomePage'); 
      return $obj->Slider; 
   } 
}

Adding $Slider to the template has no effect.

For things like this, the SiteConfig is probably the best place. It's quite easy to decorate and every page template can access it

http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/reference/siteconfig

Worked perfectly - cheers martimiz