Page Inputfield Selector

[Timo]

Hi, 

I'm looking for help with my page field selector. I want a field which allows me to select internal pages to link to.

I have a strict naming, where all relevant page templates for this case begin with "page-" . So I would love to do something like this:

template^=page-

but the system tells me this is not allowed. Same for template%=, template*= etc.

Edit: I solved it now with a custom php snippet. This works, but maybe there is a more elegant solution?

$tmp = new PageArray();
$all = $pages->find('id|has_parent=1');
foreach(  $all as $p ) {
  if( strpos($p->template->name, 'page-') === 0 ) {
    $tmp->push( $p );
  }
}

return $tmp;

[LostKobrakai]

https://github.com/ryancramerdesign/ProcessWire/issues/1210#issuecomment-107403598

[Timo]

Thanks for your answer, looks clever, but you cannot use $templates in the "Custom PHP code to find selectable pages".

template.name^= doesn't work, either.

I got my solution now, but I think this is more complicated than it should be.

[LostKobrakai]

In the "Custom PHP Code" snippet there are $page and $pages as local variables, but as the code is evaled in the module itself you can access all other api variables by using the class specific "syntax" like $this->templates or $this->fields.

[Timo]

Okay, I guess that's too advanced for my basic processwire and php knowledge. Probably I don't get what you are trying to tell me. This doesn't work either:

$tpls = $this->templates->find("name^=page-");
$items = $pages->find("template=$tpls");

Thanks anyway, I resign and stay with my foreach-loop.