I've started using Piranha CMS and really enjoining it, but now I came into a bit of trouble.
One of my pages is a contact form where I want to post an extended page model with contact information to the controller.
I've created a page template Contact and in the manager gui and I've set the setting View to Contact
The correct view is loaded but the problem is that all the requests goes against the index action method and not the contact action method in PageController.
What am I doing wrong?
The view is used to signal the controller what view should be used to render the page, not which action should be called. This can be used when several pages has the same type of data and logic, but should be rendered differently.
The field route is used to rewrite a page to a controller/action. The default route for a page is Page which means that requests to that page is rewritten to ~/page, i.e the PageController and its Index action. If you wanted a certain type to be rewritten to the contact action of the PageController you set the route to Page/Contact which will rewrite the request to ~/page/contact.
If you have a complex structure you should add custom controllers, for examples a ProductController. The route could then be set to Product rewriting the request to ~/product.
I hope this clarifies things!
Regards
Håkan