Paginating Pages from Page Selector Field

[Jonathan Lahijani]

I have a page X with page-field called "listings".

I want to paginate the listings on page X, but this seems not to work.  Normally it would work fine if the thing that was to be paginated was wasn't coming from a Page select field.

Here's what I have:

<?php
$listings = $page->listings->find("limit=2"); // this is not friendly to paginator it seems 
//$listings = $pages->find("parent=/listings/,template=listing,limit=2"); // this would work, but not what i want because it's not pulling the specific data i need... i want it come from a page field as shown in the above line.
$pagination = $listings->renderPager();
?>
<?php include "./_head.php"; ?>

<main class="main" role="main">

  <?php if(count($page->listings)): ?>
    <div class="container">
      <?php foreach($listings as $listing): ?>
        <?php wireIncludeFile("_listing-slab-item", array(
          'listing' => $listing,
        )); ?>
      <?php endforeach; ?>
      <?php echo $pagination; ?><!-- this outputs nothing -->
    </div>
  <?php endif; ?>

</main><!-- /.main -->

<?php include "./_foot.php"; ?>

To be sure, I did enable page numbers on my template file.

[tpr]

In a similar situation I grabbed page IDs first and then the pages, like this:

// get all children pages ID
$works = $page->children('artist!=null')->artist('|');

// get all artists with ID
$t->allArtists = wire('pages')->find("id=$works, sort=date_birth");

It needs PW 2.6 or newer to work (because of "artist('|')").

I'm also interested in a more elegant way if there's any.

[LostKobrakai]

$page->listings returns a PageArray and PageArray::find doesn't work out of the box with pagination. Either set the start/limit/total values manually or use $pages->find() or $page->children(). Both of those will set these values automatically.

Edit: Quick hack around.

$listings = $page->listings->find("limit=2");
$listings = $pages->find("id=$listings");

[Jonathan Lahijani]

@LostKobrakai: I tried the code you posted but it didn't seem to work.

@tpr: I tried your approach and it did work.  The result:

$listings = $pages->find("parent=/listings/,template=listing,limit=2,id=".$page->listings->id('|'));