Featured Page

[Rich Torres]

Hello there fellow PW people,

I am looking to feature a different page every week on the home page. I am building this web site, but not maintaining the content. I wanted some thing like a checkbox that would turn a page into a 'featured' page. this checkbox could only be used by one page at any given time. So if another page is chosen as featured, it would have to lose this value.

I am kind of at a loss where to start. I have done some searching, but perhaps my keywords are not allowing something I am looking for to pop up.

Thanks in advance!

Rich Torres

[abdus]

How about something like this?

• Create a Checkbox field called featured, add it to a template
• Hook into Page::savedField, return if field name is not 'featured'
• Check if $page ($page = $event->arguments(0)) has $page->featured=1
• Perform a $pages->find("featured=1, id!=$page")
• Iterate over those pages and set featured=0

Now one potential problem that comes to my mind is that as you're iterating over these pages, the hook will be called over and over. Setting $event->cancelHooks = true before you do the iteration should cancel subsequent hooks, but I haven't tried it.

 

[Rich Torres]

I'm an idiot... page reference field on home page... all those duckduckgo searches... wasted

abdus, thank you for such a hasty reply. I will make note of this, as I am sure this will help me further my understanding. I am sure this info will come in useful in the near future.

[abdus]

Yeah, that could work too

[Peter Knight]

I always found it easier to have a page select field on my homepage. 

That way you have a single point for determining the featured page and don't have to trawl through a site tree to determine which page(s) are already checked. 

 

[szabesz]

3 hours ago, Peter Knight said:

I always found it easier to have a page select field on my homepage. 

Me too

[tpr]

Why not just get the page that has featured=1 and set to 0 on save hook, instead of iterating?

[abdus]

There should be at most 1 page with featured=1, but $pages->find() returns PageArray, you'd have to iterate over it but it's just semantics. 

What I'm interested is how you'd get a hook to run just once and stop further hooks from getting triggered inside that hook.

[tpr]

That's why I wrote "get" instead find. On a page save hook you could save the field so no additional page save would be triggered.

http://cheatsheet.processwire.com/page/built-in-methods-reference/page-save-field/