page type controllers could work not really sure what you are trying to do

I have code that needs to run on every page of the site(in a controller), because it has to do with navigation that is displayed in the site footer. It belongs in a controller, but I don't know what controller that is.

In Ruby on Rails, there is the concept of an "application" controller, which runs for every page request, and your controllers all inherit from this controller. So you can put code in the application controller that will always run. I didn't know if Concrete had a controller like this.

If not, how would you execute controller code on each page request?

It does, its just not the preferred way to do it, you can copy /concrete/libraries/controller.php to /libraries/ and edit it,

There is probably a better way... What exactly are you trying to do?

I'm inserting an auto-nav block in my footer(programmatically); however, I need to run a query to get a specific page from the database to use as the parent page for the auto-nav. So this query I want to put in a controller somewhere, and needs to always run (since the footer is on every page).

so you want to get the parent of the current page?

No, it's some other page not having to do with this page. I meant parent meaning, the page would serve as the parent for the auto-nav (the auto-nav generates a list of pages below the provided parent page).

anyone find a solution to this short of overriding the Concrete5 controller?

Hello? (Sound of crickets churping...)

Ok, then in future projects i'll probably make a page type controller for each page type, then have them all inherit from a parent controller. But it would be nice if this was already set up in the CMS architecture.

Thanks!