Feature Request: Universal Placeholders

Hi, Dave -

I've been really pleased with some of the additions to CMSB of late. However, as a former fan of AM (1&2) there is one feature which has yet to make the cut which I would like to champion.

Is there any way we could introduce some sort of "Universal Placeholder" system - like the one used to such great effect in AM2?

For those not familiar with the system, there is a page in the admin area where you can list your own placeholders. You enter a name and then the corresponding code snippet. So, for example, you might do something like this:

my.domain = http://www.mysite.co.uk

Then wherever $my.domain appears in your template it is replaced by the code - in this case the URL above.

It's a simple system and works with text, links and images. This makes it really easy to construct templates which use site-wide features, such as logo images, menus, page titles, meta data and pretty much anything else. With a little imagination, you can also use it to control CSS and other formatting.

I appreciate AM2 and CMSB employ fundamentally different methods for delivering pages, but is there any way we could do something along these lines? Could it not be some kind of integrated php include system?

:0)

Perch