Need Help With Child Pages

[FreeAgent]

I'm just getting started with ProcessWire using the Default Profile. Thus far everything is working out great even with my very limited PHP knowledge. Right now I'm trying to wiggle a basic blog into my setup. I've setup a page called blog, and I have 2 test post pages as children of blog. In the sidebar on blog post pages only I want to show social sharing elements.

I'm currently using the following code...

if($page->rootParent->hasChildren) {
    echo "social share stuff";
}

I have 2 problems with this.

1. This echo will display on both the parent and its children. I only want to echo on the child pages.

2. The code above will echo on all parents that have children. I only want this echo to trigger on children of blog.

Can anyone help me out with this please?

[Pauline]

Hi FreeAgent,

If I get you right, then you have a page with name "blog" under the homepage. If the current page is a child of "blog", you want to display the shares, right?

if ($page->rootParent->name == "blog") {
    echo "social share stuff";
}

// if this doesn't work, you can try additionally
if ($page->rootParent->name == "blog" && $page->name != "blog") {
    echo "social share stuff";
}

PS: the editor button with this sign: <> opens a box for code.

[FreeAgent]

That worked perfectly, Pauline! Thank you so much for your help. I need to get better with PHP.

[FreeAgent]

After taking another look I still have a problem. I don't want the echo to trigger on blog. I want it to trigger on blogs children only.

In a nutshell I'm using the defult profile. This profile uses _main.php as its central template. I'm trying to write some code that will only display the comments section on blog entry pages. These pages are the children of blog.

[FreeAgent]

I figured it out. If anyone else is trying to do this here was the very simple change to get it working...

if ($page->parent->name == "blog") {
    echo "social share stuff";
}