Render a whole page (footer include)

[Dari4sho]

Hello Community,

I'm glad I discovered processwire and there are no words to tell you, how amazed I am by now.
My first post is a question, as just reading wasn't enough to find a solution this time - just to mention my great first impressions by the community. So hello all.
Enough love for now, I'm stuck at a problem which I thought would be easy to solve - sitting here for a day now.

Before going in detail, maybe I am missing something out in general:
Is it possible to render a complete, specific page inside a template? With all the markup rendered just like an include + the content? In case it is, here are my details:

I want to include my footer on every template via the '_main.php', as the footer does not change.
The footer is a custom template with 4 textfields and a page ('/footer/'), as I want to fill in the content from the backend - there are no files prepended or appended on it.

The footer-page renders fine, I can access '/footer/', but how can I render this page in the '_main.php'? So that I can change the footer in the backend (in all languages) and it prints on all pages?

I tried the following:

_init.php:

$footer = $pages->get('id=1036'); // also get('/footer/') just to make sure - knowing now all this returns just the id

$ftvar = $pages->get('id=1036');
$footer = $ftvar->render(); // This crashes my mysql

$footer = $ftvar->children->render(); // Just tried everything I could find

$footer = $ftvar->render('partial=true') // Throws error with and without '' - just found it, seems to be wrong as render does not take arguments

$footer = wireRenderFile("/footer/"); // Understanding it now

_main.php:

echo $footer;

And quite much other variations and possible solutions I can't remember anymore.
I learned a lot about what the API can get out of templates and specific fields - but my problem remains. I hope somebody can clear some things up for me as I just started with pw. 

Thanks for your time!

[Klenkes]

Welcome to the forum!
 

Just put this in your _main.php where the footer is:

$footer = $pages->get("1036");

And you have all the fields of your footer page. (you can omit the id= in your selector)

Then output your fields like that:

echo $footer->yourfieldname;

It's just one way of doing it.

 

[Dari4sho]

Thanks @Klenkes, my mistake was the wrong architecture in mind. No need to include a whole rendered page or a special template. Markup of footer inside of '_main.php', filling it with the fields from the page via get(); - done.

 

Sorry for the extra long post and thanks!

[adrian]

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just found it, seems to be wrong as render does not take arguments

Actually it does, but you need to send as an array:

$footer = $ftvar->render(array('partial' => 'true'));

Then you can get these using the $options variable:

$options['partial'];