Random quote, limit 1 from repeater

[Peter Knight]

Hi guys

A few pages on my site are required to output a random quote from a bunch of 5 which are associated with that page.

IE 

About has 5 quotes
Home has 5 quotes
Company has 5 quotes

Normally I'd just make a few child pages for each parent and give it it's own template. Using a selector to do that would be easy.

However, I've decided to go down the route of adding each pages 5 quotes to a repeater field.

I can output ALL the pages quotes using this...

<?php
foreach($page->one_liner_group as $one) {
echo "{$one->one_liner}<p>"; 
}?>

but I'm not so sure where to add (limit=1) and getRandom when using repeaters within a page.

Thanks

 

[Klenkes]

How about:

$random_quote = $pages->find('template=repeater_one_liner_group, sort=random, limit=1');

Sometimes I get the latest something this way (sort=-created)

[Peter Knight]

I could go that direction if I had separate sub-pages. But these quotes are repeaters within each page. Or did I misunderstand your approach?

 

[Soma]

$page->one_liner_group->getRandom();

[BitPoet]

It should be even more straight forward:

<p><?= $page->one_liner_group->getRandom()->one_liner ?></p>

The value of a repeater field is a RepeaterPageArray, which is just a slightly extended PageArray.

Edit: @Soma beat me by a few seconds ?

[Peter Knight]

Thank you!

So straightforward when you see how.

I got up at 5AM this morning to work on this project and thought I'd get a good 12 hours at it. Instead, I had computer and internet problems all day. At least I can wake up tomorrow AM (not at 5AM though) knowing I have this fixed ?