Single page controller

Developing with Concrete
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Hello everybody,
I’m desperately trying to create a single page with a controller as instructed in the documentation.

The single page has been added via the dashboard and my theme view.php template has been created. All works perfectly so far, I can display the content of my single page view file.
I’m facing a problem with the controller which is totally ignored.

Here is the tree structure for my single page
single_page

The controller code from application/single_pages/mypage.php

<?php
namespace Application\Controller\SinglePage\Mypage;
use Concrete\Core\Page\Controller\PageController;

class Mypage extends PageController
	{
	public function view()
		{
		$this->set('myVar','this var value is sent via the controller');
		}
	
	}
?>

The code from application/single_pages/mypage/mypage.php

<?php
echo $myVar;
echo 'Some content';
?>

I can’t send data from the controller to the page view.

Whoops \ Exception \ ErrorException (E_WARNING)
Undefined variable $myVar

I can’t figure out what I am doing wrong :frowning_face:
Thank you in advance for your precious help.

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First step is to confirm you controller is actually running. You can do that by temporarily inserting something like the below into the view() method of the controller :

die(__FILE__);

I usually do everything in packages so the next advice could be wrong.

Looking at your code, I suspect the controller needs to be in application/controllers/single_page/… etc. Note the plural ‘controllers’ and singular ‘single_page’

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The first line of all my single page controllers doesn’t have the \Mypage bit at the end. Here’s the first few lines of one of them:

namespace Application\Controller\SinglePage;
use PageController;
use Database;
use Page;

class AdminSchedule extends PageController

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As @JohntheFish said your controller needs to live in application/controllers/single_page/mypage.php

As @mhawke said your namepace should not contain the class name, it should be Application/Controller/SinglePage.

Once you have those changed you need to go into Dashboard → Single Pages and push the refresh doodad next to your single page so that the controller gets recognized (if this doesn’t work delete it and re-add).

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@JohntheFish , @mhawke and @hutman
Sorry for my late reply, I was busy on other projects.
I followed your instructions and everything is working fine now.
Thanks you for having taken time to solve my problem :pray: