Profields Repeater Matrix - limiting one matrix type within a repeater to the first entry

[hollyvalero]

I have a pro fields repeater field that I am using for page top alerts on a home page (thank you, COVID-19) ... this dedicated set of repeaters could have more than one type. 

--> repeater field is called cblock_alerts
--> the first matrix type is alert 

I have limited the entry to 2 in the back end (assuming one live and one in reserve) but I only want ONE to show up so you don't get stacked alerts.

Normally I repeat everything in my repeaters so the code looks like:

if ($page->cblock_alerts) {
    foreach ($page->cblock_alerts as $item) {
        if ($item->type == 'alert') {
            echo "

I've tried several find, get, limit, and they all either don't work, show nothing, or show both repeaters. I don't really need the foreach here, but there could be another matrix item so the item type == alert is needed.

I'm looking for something like this:

if ($page->cblock_alerts) {
    foreach ($page->cblock_alerts as $item) {
        if ($item->type == 'alert') {
            $firstalert = $item->first();
            echo "

 

or            

$firstalert = $item('limit = 1');

Lots of variations on these with no luck.  Tried random... grrrr.

 

 

[Craig]

Do you just want to get the first item? This seems to do the job for me:

$alert = $page->cblock_alerts->findOne("type=alert");
if ($alert) {
	echo "Notice: {$alert}";
}

 

[hollyvalero]

15 minutes ago, Craig said:

Do you just want to get the first item? This seems to do the job for me:

$alert = $page->cblock_alerts->findOne("type=alert");
if ($alert) {
	echo "Notice: {$alert}";
}

 

Thanks, Craig!  That's exactly what I needed. ?

[Craig]

That's great! No problem ?