Usage with CMS

[sanderha]

I'm using the CMS module, and have a more or less standard website with some topnavigation etc. If I use this search functionality, the search results page is not able to show $Menu etc. because SearchResults extends Controller and not ContentController .

I'd like to know if its correct I'd have to fork this module and set the SearchResults class to extend ContentController, to have it suit my needs?
Is there another way I can achieve access to "normal" ContentController functionality (such as navigation) without changing the module?

[mlewis-everley]

It is a bit of a pain I will admit, I wanted this to be a module that could be used "framework only" meaning that it could not extend ContentController (it has to extend Controller).

At the moment I get around the issue you describe by using Middleman (https://github.com/i-lateral/silverstripe-middleman). It is not an ideal solution, but I have not been able to come up with a better one for now.

Otherwise your options would be:

• As you suggest, fork this module and alter it
• Add an extension to the "SearchResults" controller that re-adds these functions (this is basically what Middleman does).