Selector Fieldtype uses template id rather than name

[FlorianA]

In order to hide some pages from my site menu, I've defined a field called 'menu_filter' with field type 'Selector'. In my page editor, I assigned a value to the field by choosing the combo boxes 'template' 'Equals' 'event'.

After that I tried to apply this selector to a WireArray in a template file, but the selector string was 'template=45' rather than 'template=event', that means it shows the template's id, not its name. Therefore the selector doesn't work in my code. How can I fix this?

[Macrura]

what is your code?

[kongondo]

As we await your code...

$t = $templates->get(45);// don't hardcode; get '45' value from the selector string
if($t->name == 'event') {
	// stuff
}
// OR
$t = $templates->get('event');
if($t->id == 45) {
	// stuff 
}

 

[FlorianA]

19 hours ago, Macrura said:

what is your code?

function getSettings() {
    return pages()->get('/site-settings/');
}

$home = $pages->get('/');
foreach ($home->children()->not(getSettings()->menu_filter) as $childPage) {
    // the not() part has no effect
}

 

[Robin S]

23 hours ago, FlorianA said:

After that I tried to apply this selector to a WireArray

The problem is here. The description of InputfieldSelector/FieldtypeSelector is "Build a page finding selector visually" (my emphasis). The inputfield returns a string that is suitable for using with the PW PageFinder - so you can use it with methods that query the database such as $pages->find($selector) or $page->children($selector) but it isn't guaranteed to work with in-memory selectors like $some_pagearray->find($selector), $some_pagearray->not($selector), etc.

In your case a simple solution would be to use your Selector field to define the selector for pages that will appear in the menu (rather than what you don't want to appear in the menu).

So you would set this in your Selector field...

template > Not Equals > event

...and then use it in your template like this...

function getSettings() {
    return pages()->get('/site-settings/');
}

$home = $pages->get('/');
foreach ($home->children(getSettings()->menu_filter) as $childPage) {
    // ...
}

 

[FlorianA]

This works. Thank you very much.

Florian