Get page with a specific template of root parent

[Stefanowitsch]

Hello!

This might be an easy one but I can't figure out the selector. My head is spinning.

I am using the Multisite plugin and want to display custom footer menus based on multiple "submenu" templates.

What I want to achieve:

Get the page with the template "menu_submenus" that is located under the root page of the current page.

My attempt does not work:

$menus = $page->rootParent()->get('template=menu_submenus');

    $footerNav = $menus->footer_menu;

    foreach ($footerNav as $item) { ?>

        <li><a href="<?= $item->url; ?>"><?= $item->title; ?></a></li>

For visualisation heres the page tree:

[dragan]

Did you debug it with Tracy?

Check whether you need parent or rootParent, and your template and field names.

[Stefanowitsch]

I got it! Forgot to include HIDDEN pages in the query. Typically my menu templates are hidden pages.

So this is the correct solution:

$page->rootParent()->children('include=hidden')->get('template=menu_submenus');

 

[Robin S]

13 hours ago, Stefanowitsch said:

So this is the correct solution:

$page->rootParent()->children('include=hidden')->get('template=menu_submenus');

When you do this you load all the children of the of the root parent into memory as a PageArray, and then you get just one of those pages. It's more efficient to directly get the single page you need:

$page->rootParent()->child('template=menu_submenus, include=hidden');

 

[Stefanowitsch]

Cool! That's even better. I will use that.