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EDIT: What I'm actually really looking for is a way to edit and add children of a page in a similar way as RepeaterMatrix fields: Easy to add new ones and easy to move, hide and modify inline: –––– I have a problem and am so close to a solution, but everything i've found so far only gets me about 95% and before I create something on my own want to ask is anyone knows a soltion or if I miss something. My simple requirement: Editing Children and creating new ones inside the current parent page context – eighter inline or in a Lightbox. Not working Option A: With page relation fields I can create new pages – but it requires me to select a fixed parent. If I don't provide a parent, no new link is present. Not working Option B: With the awesome AdminPageFieldEditLinks Module I can create new Pages directly without the need to provide a parant beforehand – but then I need to select it at runtime. There is a new link now – the link is: parent_id=0&template_id=51&modal=1 … if it only provided the correct parent_id!!! But now i have to select the parent: Not working Option C : That's what I do right now… Reordering the Child-Field to the first tab – but to maintain the context, I would need the edit and new button to open a lightbox instead of a page reload. Possible solutions: For A+B: If I could provide a selector as parent, this would solve my issue: "parent=page.id" or a checkbox "use parent page for new pages". Or I could use some hook? For C : I could write my own javascript to open the links in a Lightbox.

Some introduction... This module is experimental and there are probably bugs - so treat it as alpha and don't use it on production websites. I started on this module because there have been quite a few requests for "fake" or "invisible" parent functionality and I was curious about what is possible given that the idea sort of goes against the PW page structure philosophy. I'm not sure that I will use this module myself, just because I don't really see a long list of pages under Home (or anywhere else) as untidy or cluttered. I would tend to use Lister Pro when I want to see some set of pages as a self-contained group. But maybe others will find it useful. At the moment this module does not manipulate the breadcrumb menu in admin. So when you are editing or adding a virtual child the real location of the page is revealed in the breadcrumb menu. That's because I don't see the point in trying to comprehensively fool users about the real location of pages - I think it's better that they have some understanding of where the pages really are. But I'm open to feedback on this and it is possible to alter the breadcrumbs if there's a consensus that it would be better that way. Virtual Parents Allows pages in Page List to be grouped under a virtual parent. This module manipulates the page list and the flyout tree menu to make it appear that one or more pages are children of another page when in fact they are siblings of that page. Why would you do that instead of actually putting the child pages inside the parent? Mainly if you want to avoid adding the parent name as part of the URL. For example, suppose you have some pages that you want to be accessed at URLs directly off the site root: yourdomain.com/some-page/. But in the page list you want them to be appear under a parent for the sake of visual grouping or to declutter the page list under Home. Example of how the page structure actually is Example of how the page structure appears with Virtual Parents activated How it works This module identifies the virtual parents and virtual children by way of template. You define a single template as the virtual parent template and one or more templates as the virtual child templates. Anytime pages using the child template(s) are siblings of a page using the parent template, those child pages will appear as children of the virtual parent in the page list and tree menu. You will want to create dedicated templates for identifying virtual parents and virtual children and reserve them just for use with this module. Features Adjusts both page list and tree flyout menu to show the virtual parent/child structure, including the count of child pages. Works everywhere page list is used: Page List Select / Page List Select Multiple (and therefore CKEditor link dialog). Intercepts the "Add page" process in admin, so that when an attempt is made to add a child to a virtual parent, the child is added where it belongs (the next level up) and the template selection is limited to virtual child templates. Intercepts moving and sorting pages in the page list, to ensure only virtual children may be moved/sorted under the virtual parent. Superusers have a toggle switch at the bottom of the page list to easily disable/enable Virtual Parents in order to get a view of what the real page structure is. Usage Install the Virtual Parents module. In the module config, enter pairs of parent/child template names in the form virtual_parent_template=virtual_child_template. If needed you can specify multiple pipe-separated child templates: virtual_parent_template=child_template_1|child_template_2. One pair of template names per line. There is a checkbox in the module config to toggle Virtual Pages on and off, but it's more convenient to use this from the page list. Notes It's important to keep in mind the real location of the virtual child pages. This module is only concerned with adjusting the appearance of page list and tree menu for the sake of visual grouping and tidiness. In all other respects the virtual children are not children of the virtual parent at all. It's recommended to select an icon for the virtual parent template (Advanced tab) so virtual parents are marked out in the page list as being different from normal parent pages. Do not place real children under a virtual parent. There is some protection against this when moving pages in the page list, but when it comes to changing a page's parent via the Settings tab the only protection is common sense. https://github.com/Toutouwai/VirtualParents

I have a new challenge - outputting the grandchild pages of 3 children (simple enough) but confine the display of each grandchild under it's parent heading. Will try explain... My tree looks like this: Foods (where I want to mirror the structure below in a table) - Fruit (Child of Foods and Level 2 Parent) - - Apple - - Banana - - Orange - Vegetable (Child of Foods and Level 2 Parent) - - Carrot - - Potato - - Cauliflower - Meats (Child of Foods and Level 2 Parent) - - Beef - - Pork - - Chicken Lets say "Foods" is the parent. Fruit, Veg and Meat are children. Apple, Bananna etc are grand children I have the Foods template working to an extent but it's doing the following. IE it's Fruit - - Apple - - Banana - - Orange - - Carrot - - Potato - - Cauliflower - - Beef - - Pork - - Chicken Vegetable - - Apple - - Bananna - - Orange - - Carrot - - Potato - - Cauliflower - - Beef - - Pork - - Chicken Meats - - Apple - - Bananna - - Orange - - Carrot - - Potato - - Cauliflower - - Beef - - Pork - - Chicken This is my effort so far. <?php // the children of this page $products = $page->children(); foreach ($products as $prod){ // Create a table for each child page echo" <div> <div class='prod-ov-wrapper'> <div class='prod-ov-text'> {$prod->title} <table class='uk-table uk-table-divider' border=1> <thead> <tr> <th>Part No.</th> <th>Length</th> <th>Break Force</th> <th>Width</th> <th>Colour</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> "; // populate the table with details of the children of each child $proditem = $page->find("parent=$page->children, template=product"); foreach ($proditem as $prodDetail){ echo" <tr> <td>{$prodDetail->prod_partNo}</td> <td>{$prodDetail->prod_length}</td> <td>{$prodDetail->prod_breakForce}</td> <td>{$prodDetail->prod_width}</td> <td>{$prodDetail->title}</td> </tr> ";} echo" </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </div> ";} ?> I've tried a couple of things over the last few hours and just can't quite understand the API call I need at $proditem = $page->find("parent=$page->children, template=product"); foreach ($proditem as $prodDetail){ echo" is there a way to do this? I suspect I am close but need to add another variable in there?

Hello, I have a page that consists of the body of the page and the title and bodies of it's childpages with a foreach. That part works. Each childpage can have a sidebar if filled. What I can't get done is getting the childpages of the childpages. I want the titles of those child/child pages in the sidebar of their parent. main page |sidebar About (parent) | no listing of Part 1 etc... Part 1 (child) |list childpages to Part 1 <- can't get this to work Part 2 (child) |list childpages to Part 2 <- can't get this to work Part 3 (child) |list childpages to Part 3 <- can't get this to work This is my code so far... I tried several other options, but none got what I want. Can somebody give me a hint... <div id='main'> <!-- main content --> <div id='content'> <h1><?php echo $title; ?></h1> <?php // Primary content is the page's body copy echo $page->body; ?> <?php $this_page = $page->get(id); // if the rootParent (section) page has more than 1 child, then render // section navigation in the sidebar (see _func.php for renderNavTree). if($page->rootParent->hasChildren > 1) { $sidebar = renderNavTree($page->rootParent, 3); // make any sidebar text appear after navigation $sidebar .= $page->sidebar; } ?> </div> <!-- sidebar content --> <?php if($sidebar): ?> <div id='sidebar'> <?php echo $sidebar; ?> </div> <?php endif; ?> <?php foreach ($pages->get($this_page)->children as $child) { $image = $child->images->first(); $image = $image->url; ?> <div id="content" style="background: url('<?php echo $image; ?>') no-repeat center top;"> <h1> <?php echo $child->title; ?></h1> <?php echo $child->body; ?> <?php if($sidebar): ?> <div id='sidebar'> <?php foreach ($child->child->children as $children2) { foreach ($children2->children as $child2) { echo "<h1>{$child2->url}</h1>"; } } ?> </div> <?php endif; ?> </div> <?php } //end childpage foreach ?> </div>

Hello, On my website I want to import categories from another website based on prestashop. For each categorie a new child page will be created, but if I want to import the categories again because there were some changes made in the categories in Prestashop, then the page has to be updated and not create a new page. So I tried the following: $parent = $this->session->Parent; foreach($categories as $item) { //make sure end of string ends with alphanumeric $str_catlink = $item['link_rewrite']; $category_name = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9]+\Z/i', '', $str_catlink); // see if we already have this item $page = $parent->child("name=($category_name)"); // if we don't have this item already then create it if(!$page->id) { $page = new Page(); //etc etc etc But if I want to import the same categories now, there is an error: Call to a member function child() on a non-object. How can this be solved? Does anyone have an idea?

Hi all I am having trouble getting some conditional text to appear based on the presence of a child page with a particular template. Based on this thread, I have used this code: $childCount = $page->children("template=studentwork_example"); if ($childCount >= 1) {$example = "<h2>Examples of Student Work</h2> <p>Click on any of the images below to see a full example of Parts A and B of the Challenge.</p>";} else {$example = $nbsp;} The result is that when there is a child page, it looks like this: But when there is no child, the conditional text still displays, like this: Earlier, I also tried this code, with the same result: if ($page->child) {$example = "<h2>Examples of Student Work</h2> <p>Click on any of the images below to see a full example of Parts A and B of the Challenge.</p>";} I have added the template selector in my most recent code example (the first one) because I eventually will have multiple child pages using different templates. My question is: Can someone tell me why my conditional text $example is showing up on all pages using this template, irrespective of whether the page has a child page using the template 'studentwork_example'? Where am I going wrong? Thanks for reading!

Well, after I thought I was near completion, a fun issue reared its ugly head. I have my tree set up like (names are just examples): Home Articles - User 1 -- Article 1 -- Article 2 -- Article 3 -- Article 4 - User 2 -- Article 1 -- Article 2 -- Article 3 -- Article 4 I have a drop down in my navigation called "User 1" (for when you are under User 1) that uses: <?php foreach($page->siblings as $child) { echo "<li><a href='{$child->url}'>{$child->title}</a></li>"; } ?> This works great as long as you Stay in user 1. However if you go to the "User 2" dropdown, everything is replaced by user 2 and user 1 no longer displays. I realize it is because I am selecting the siblings, but is there a way to go about haveing both dropdowns contained and populated no matter which article I am currently viewing?

Hello all, I was absent for a while from developing - seems I got rusty in the meantime ... Having weird trouble with trying to redirect a page to its first child. I have the following structure: - /section/ (template A) -- /child 1/ (template B) -- /child 2/ (template B) and so on. Template A has the following conditional: if($page->numChildren) $session->redirect($page->child()->url); However, whenever /section/ is clicked, it redirects to /child 2/ but not to /child 1/. This happens on every section with template A and children. To make this even more weird, the redirect has worked perfectly fine for weeks and the strange behavior occurred today after editing content in the admin. Template A sort settings == none /section/ page sort settings == nothing selected I've tried selector "sort=sort" but it changes nothing (/child 1/ is the oldest page). I've also tried to set child sort order on /section/ to manual-drag-and-drop. Again without success. I'm quite helpless with this and would appreciate any help. Thanks.

Hi, is it somehow possible to add new users as children of other users? I want to group users and thought that would be a nice structure to have groups of users put together as children of other users. Basically like: Users Group A User 1 User 2 User 3 Group B User 4 User 5 User 6 User 7 ... I edited the user template to be able to have children and parents of user-templates - yet, whenever I add a child to a user it automatically will be appended to the 'Users' page. Also I cant move them from there, it says "You do not have permission to move pages using this parent - /backend/access/users/group-a/" Couldn't find a solution so far - I think there is some intention behind it, because it is some admin/system stuff - but couldn't it be made possible? -Steffen

Sorry for that messy topic title but my problem seems very complicated to describe in so few words. So here a better description of my issue: I have a many product detail site under a parent called /overview/. On this product detail site is at the footer a listing of all the others product detail sites including the site itself. (all children of the parent /overview/. So i have for example: /overview/test1/ /overview/test2/ /overview/test3/ /overview/test4/ /overview/test5/ My Code look like this at the moment: <?php $overview = $pages->get("/overview/"); $overviewchildren = $overview->children("limit=4"); foreach($overviewchildren as $overviewchild) {?> <a href="<?=$overviewchild->url?>"><?=$overviewchild->title?></a> <?}?> Now on the site /overview/test1/ the code list show test1, test2, test3, test4. But i want that the child on which the user is at the moment dont show up at the list. So for the site /overview/test2/ the list should show test1, test3, test4 and test5. I hope you understand my problem , cause im from germany and to describe a php issue in english is very hard for me. Thanks a lot everybody for helping me.

Based on my Previous thread: https://processwire.com/talk/topic/7194-templatelist-inside-module-configuration/ here is an automatic child creater if you need on creation of a parent element a bunch of Child Elements. what also works: multiple diffrent childs on same parent caution: sadly what also works: first entry: parent_id = 47 child_id = 13 child_name = something child_numbers = 1 second entry: parent_id = 13 child_id = 47 ... ... this should afaik (not tested) kill your System by having a infinite Loop. because (first entry creates a child which call second entry which would then call first entry and so on). <?php /** * Created by PhpStorm. * User: Kielbasa * Date: 04.08.14 * Time: 10:09 */ class CustomChildCreater extends Process { public static function getModuleInfo() { return array( 'title' => 'CustomChildCreater', 'version' => 100, 'summary' => 'Child creator for Pages with Specific Parent', 'href' => '', 'singular' => true, 'autoload' => true, ); } public function ___execute() { $this->setFuel('processHeadline', 'Child Creater'); $table = $this->modules->get("MarkupAdminDataTable"); $table->setEncodeEntities(false); $table->headerRow(array('Edit','Parent Template', 'Child Template','Name of new Childs (childname+{n})', '{n} - Childs', 'Delete')); $result = $this->db->query("SELECT * FROM {$this->className} ORDER BY parent_template"); while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) { // output in table rows with edit link and delete checkbox? $table->row(array( 'edit' => 'edit/?id='.$row['id'], $this->templates->get($row['parent_template'])->name , $this->templates->get($row['child_template'])->name, $row['child_name'], $row['child_numbers'], "<input type='checkbox' name='delete[]' value='$row[id]' />" )); } $button = $this->modules->get("InputfieldButton"); $button->type = 'submit'; $button->id = 'submit_delete'; $button->value = 'Remove selected sources'; $table->action(array('Add source' => 'add/')); // Is there clean way to add button to right side? return "<form action='./delete/' method='post'>" .$table->render() . $button->render() . "</form>"; } public function ___executeAdd() { $this->fuel->breadcrumbs->add(new Breadcrumb('../', 'Child Creater')); $this->setFuel('processHeadline', "new Instance"); $form = $this->modules->get("InputfieldForm"); $form->method = 'post'; $form->action = '../save/'; //--Parent Template $field = wire('modules')->get('InputfieldSelect'); $field->attr('name', 'parent_template'); $field->label = __('Parent Template'); foreach(wire('templates') as $template){ $field->addOption($template->id, $template->name); } $form->add($field); //--Child Template $field = wire('modules')->get('InputfieldSelect'); $field->attr('name', 'child_template'); $field->label = __('Child Template'); foreach(wire('templates') as $template){ $field->addOption($template->id, $template->name); } $form->add($field); //--Child Name $field = wire('modules')->get('InputfieldText'); $field->attr('name', 'child_name'); $field->label = __('Child Name'); $form->add($field); //--Children to Create $field = wire('modules')->get('InputfieldInteger'); $field->attr('name', 'child_number'); $field->label = __('Childs to Create'); $form->add($field); $field = $this->modules->get("InputfieldButton"); $field->type = 'submit'; $field->value = 'Create'; $form->add($field); return $form->render(); } public function ___executeSave() { $parent_id = (int) $this->input->post->parent_template; $child_id = (int) $this->input->post->child_template; $child_name = $this->input->post->child_name; $child_numbers = (int) $this->input->post->child_number; //no i am not allowing you to kill your system if($parent_id != $child_id){ $sql = "INSERT INTO {$this->className} SET parent_template = '$parent_id', child_template = '$child_id', child_name = '$child_name', child_numbers = '$child_numbers' ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE id = id;"; $this->db->query($sql); $this->message("Save Successful"); $this->session->redirect("../"); } $this->message("Parent and Child should not be the same!"); $this->session->redirect("../"); } public function ___executeEdit(){ if(!isset($_GET['id'])){ $this->session->redirect("../"); } $id = (int) $_GET['id']; $result = $this->db->query("SELECT * FROM {$this->className} WHERE id=$id"); $data = $result->fetch_array(); $form = $this->modules->get("InputfieldForm"); $form->method = 'post'; $form->action = '../update/'; $field = $this->modules->get("InputfieldHidden"); $field->name = 'id'; $field->value = $id; $form->add($field); //--Parent Template $field = wire('modules')->get('InputfieldSelect'); $field->attr('name', 'parent_template'); $field->label = __('Parent Template'); foreach(wire('templates') as $template){ $field->addOption($template->id, $template->name); } $field->value = $data['parent_template']; $form->add($field); //--Child Template $field = wire('modules')->get('InputfieldSelect'); $field->attr('name', 'child_template'); $field->label = __('Child Template'); foreach(wire('templates') as $template){ $field->addOption($template->id, $template->name); } $field->value = $data['child_template']; $form->add($field); //--Child Name $field = wire('modules')->get('InputfieldText'); $field->attr('name', 'child_name'); $field->label = __('Child Name'); $field->value = $data['child_name']; $form->add($field); //--Children to Create $field = wire('modules')->get('InputfieldInteger'); $field->attr('name', 'child_number'); $field->value = $data['child_numbers']; $field->label = __('Childs to Create'); $form->add($field); $field = $this->modules->get("InputfieldButton"); $field->type = 'submit'; $field->value = 'Save'; $form->add($field); return $form->render(); } public function ___executeUpdate(){ $this->fuel->breadcrumbs->add(new Breadcrumb('../', 'Data imports')); $id = $this->input->post->id; $parent_id = (int) $this->input->post->parent_template; $child_id = (int) $this->input->post->child_template; $child_name = $this->input->post->child_name; $child_numbers = (int) $this->input->post->child_number; //no i am not allowing you to kill your system if($parent_id != $child_id){ $this->db->query("UPDATE {$this->className} SET parent_template = '$parent_id', child_template = '$child_id', child_name = '$child_name', child_numbers = '$child_numbers' WHERE id=$id"); $this->message("Update Successful"); $this->session->redirect("../"); } $this->message("Parent and Child should not be the same!"); $this->session->redirect("../"); } public function ___executeDelete() { $count = 0; if(!is_array($this->input->post->delete) || empty($this->input->post->delete)) { $this->message("Nothing to delete"); $this->session->redirect("../"); // back to list } foreach($this->input->post->delete as $id) { $id = (int) $id; $this->db->query("DELETE FROM {$this->className} WHERE id=$id"); $count++; } $this->message("Deleted " . $count . " data sources"); $this->session->redirect("../"); // back to list } public function ___install() { parent::___install(); $p = new Page(); $p->template = $this->templates->get("admin"); $p->parent = $this->pages->get("template=admin, name=setup"); $p->title = 'Child Creater'; $p->name = 'child-creater'; $p->process = $this; $p->save(); $sql = <<< _END CREATE TABLE {$this->className} ( id int unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, parent_template int unsigned NOT NULL, child_template int unsigned NOT NULL, child_name varchar(255) NOT NULL, child_numbers int unsigned NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY(id) ) ENGINE = MYISAM; _END; $this->db->query($sql); } public function ___uninstall() { $p = $this->pages->get('template=admin, name=child-creater'); $p->delete(); $this->db->query("DROP TABLE {$this->className}"); } public function init() { parent::init(); // add a hook after the $pages->save, to issue a notice every time a page is saved $this->pages->addHookAfter('added', $this, 'createChildren'); } public function createChildren($event){ $page = $event->arguments[0]; $query = $this->db->query("SELECT * FROM {$this->className};"); //foreach child creater object foreach($query as $cco){ $t = $cco['parent_template']; $ct = $cco['child_template']; $cn = $cco['child_name']; $ci = (int) $cco['child_numbers']; $c = ''; //will be used as new Page if($t == $page->template->id){ if($ci > 0){ for($i=1;$i <= $ci;$i++){ $c = new Page(); $c->template = $ct; $c->parent = $page; // set the parent $c->name = $cn.$i; // give it a name used in the url for the page $c->title = $c->name; $c->gsv_tab_position = $i; $c->save(); } } } } } } Tell me your thoughts

Hi. I am new in process wire. I want to show child page image in the list of child pages as a thumbnail . ( like title and summary ) I tried this <img src='{$child->image_top->url}'> it works but i want to show ( 300x300 px ) I am adding the code below. My image field name is : image_top <?php // Output navigation for any children below the bodycopy. // This navigation cycles through the page's children and prints // a link and summary: if($page->numChildren) { echo "<ul class='nav'>"; foreach($page->children as $child) { echo "<li> <img src='{$child->image_top->url}'> <p><a href='{$child->url}'>{$child->title}</a><br /><span class='summary'>{$child->summary}</span></p></li>";} echo "</ul>"; } ?>

Hi! Is there any way when a parents children are sorted by the user to enable a new child to be listed at the top of the list? my site has loads of child pages so it's cumbersome to add a new child and move it when it is listed at the end of the list each time, instead of the top (the same way they delivered on the site reading from the top of the list). Cheers,

Hi there, First of all, I am sorry for the spam of small questions, but as they are all very simple and fit for my problems, they can as well fit for someone else's problems too. I am testing around the $page->children function and I wanted to find all the children inside the children of the page's first child. It is a bit complicated to explain, but I'll illustrate the situation: first level - > second level - - - > third level - - - - - - > fourth level - - - > third level - - - - - - > fourth level - - - - - - > fourth level - - - > third level If we read this list as a page tree, I want to find the url of each "fourth level" page. I have tried the most logical yet with no success: <?php foreach( $page->child->children->children as $children) { ?> <h1><?php echo $children->url ?></h1> <?php } ?> What am I doing wrong? In JQuery terms I could navigate through my levels with the $(this).parents()[5] function, but Processwire seems to lack this capability. Thanks in advance

First time using ProcessWire. As a developer I've been impressed so far. Having trouble sorting a series of pages that are children of a top level page. I've tried sorting them from the Pages page (/admin/page/) as well as from the Children tab of the parent page. I watch the network traffic in Chrome and see that when I move one of the pages there is a POST to /admin/page/sort/ with form data that includes sort= . But when I reload either admin page, or reload the site page that lists them, the order is unchanged. What am I missing here? Thanks!

Is there a more efficient way to code this using children($selector)?: $ancestor = $pages->get( 1134 ); // Get the Section 1 page $find = $pages->find( "parent=$ancestor->children, template=subcategory" ); $assets = $pages->find( "tag=$find, sort=title" ); if ( count( $assets ) ) { foreach ( $assets as $asset ) { echo "<div class='asset'><a href='{$asset->url}'>{$asset->title}</a></div>"; } } The page hierarchy looks like this: - Browse (the page that this code resides on) -- Section 1 (the ancestor page with id of 1134) --- Category 1 ---- Subcategory 1 ---- Subcategory 2 --- Category 2 ---- Subcategory 3 ---- Subcategory 4 -- Section 2 --- Category 3 ---- Subcategory 5 ---- Subcategory 6 --- Category 4 ---- Subcategory 7 ---- Subcategory 8 - Assets -- Asset 1 (tag = id of Subcategory 1) -- Asset 2 (tag = id of Subcategory 2) -- Asset 3 (tag = id of Subcategory 3) -- Asset 4 (tag = id of Subcategory 4) I want to display all of the assets where tag = id of Subcategory 1, Subcategory 2, Subcategory 3, and Subcategory 4. In other words, I want to display all assets that are "included" in Section 1.