How to find pages and build links but dont show the link if its the same as $page or $page->parents

[cb2004]

I am creating some calls to action and I am banging my head against the wall for something which I know is simple. Lets say my structure is:

- Books (id = 1)
 -- Book Year
 --- Book

- Videos (id = 2)
 -- Video Year
 -- Video

So on my whole template in a side bar I want to link to Books and Videos so:

$ctas = $pages->find("id=1|2, sort=sort");

Nice and simple. To stop the link to itself when I am on the page this is:

$ctas = $pages->find("id=1|2, id!=$page, sort=sort");

But lets say I am in Book Year or Book, I don't want to display a link to the parent Books as I am already in a child and this is handled by breadcrumbs.

I have tried so many selectors I think I have exhausted them all, so I must be missing something.

Cheers.

[DaveP]

This should work

$ctas = $pages->find("id=1|2, id!=$page->parents->append($page), sort=sort");

(Completely untested.)

[cb2004]

Awesome work DaveP, with some brackets around the $page->parents we got there:

$ctas = $pages->find("id=1|2, id!={$page->parents->append($page)}, sort=sort;

Virtual beer your way Sir.

[DaveP]

Completely forgot the curly brackets.

Virtual 'Cheers!'.