[SOLVED] Passing "parent page" to page creation via api

[louisstephens]

I am wondering, how do you pass a variable into wire('page')->get() inside a function? I have been looking through the forums, but unfortunately I have not found the answer yet.

My current set up is:

function generateNewPages($parentPageName) {
    $p = new Page();
    $p->template = "parent";
    $p->parent = wire('pages')->get('/home/');
    $p->name = $parentPageName;
    $p->title = $parentPageName;
    $p->of(false);
    $p->save();

    $p2 = new Page();
    $p2->template = "child";
    $p2->parent = wire('pages')->get('$parentPageName');
    $p2->name = "child";
    $p2->title = "Child Page";
    $p2->of(false);
    $p2->save();
}

When I try to run it by passing in a title like generateNewPages('Demo');, "Demo" is created, but when it gets to the child page I get:

Unknown Selector operator: '$' -- was your selector value properly escaped?

Is there a way to pass the $parentPageName to "wire('pages')->get('$parentPageName')" ?

[elabx]

13 minutes ago, louisstephens said:

Is there a way to pass the $parentPageName to "wire('pages')->get('$parentPageName')" ?

Use double quotes!

[kongondo]

Or remove them. You don't need them in this case ?

[adrian]

1 minute ago, elabx said:

Use double quotes!

Or no quotes at all ?

[elabx]

Hahahahaha, early morning support, sorry guys

[louisstephens]

Just now, kongondo said:

Or remove them. You don't need them in this case ?

Thanks everyone for the quick responses. Unfortunately when I do:

    $p2->parent = wire('pages')->get($parentPageName);

I get the following:

Exception: Unknown Selector operator: '' -- was your selector value properly escaped? (in MAMP/htdocs/development/pw/wire/core/Selectors.php line 378)

Im a little baffled as I thought it would work without the quotes as I dont see any glaring errors in Visual Studio Code.

[adrian]

Yeah, go with:

$p2->parent = $p

so that you are referencing the page. Otherwise you are trying to find a page by name which actually doesn't work like that.

[louisstephens]

Well look at that. It was simpler than I thought. Thanks adrian. I'll keep that one in my snippets.