Getting some pages, except the current one

[Michael van Laar]

I want to display a list of news items (= pages) in the sidebar. Of course, the current page should not appear in this list – even if it would match the criteria.

So I tried

$current_page_id = $page->id;
$all_news = $pages->find('template=news, id!=$current_page_id, sort=-news_date');

But that doesn’s work. I get the error message “Selector operator: '!=$' -- was your selector value properly escaped?”. But all examples have no excaping. So what’s wrong?

[Michael van Laar]

Solved!

Using double quites instead of single quotes does the trick.

[diogo]

You can use $array->remove($page)

As Soma likes to do: http://processwire.c...->remove($item)

[Soma]

You can't put php variables inside single quote string, only double quotes are getting parsed.

No need to use remove(), the selector is the easiest way.

[Pete]

You can shorten it a bit when excluding the current page to be id!=$page

When you don't specifically pull out a field from a $page object it simply returns the ID.

Not a lot of people know that, but it can be handy.