InputTypePage Shortcuts

[Mackski]

I'm forever writting code like this:

$currency_id = $pages->get($page->currency);
$packages = $pages->get('template=packages, currency='.$currency_id);

Where $page->currency is a page select referencing another page.
It would be great to shortcut this method to something like this:

$packages = $pages->get('template=packages, currency='.$page->currency->getPage()->id');

Or if I wanted to get the title of the currency referenced by the page field:

echo $page->currency->getPage()->title;

So in essence I'm chainging calls to get a page field, the get the corresponding page and retrieve the value of a selected field.

[tpr]

Have you tried this?

$packages = $pages->get('template=packages, currency='.$page->currency->id);

Perhaps you can leave the last "->id" part too.

If you are using this regularly, create a getPackages function in _func.php that accepts $page as parameter and returns the snippet I wrote above. Thus you could use getPackages($page) when you need it.