select pages by first letter

[froot]

hi all,

is there a way to select pages by the first letter of their title?

I'm trying to use that for an advanced search page.

so on the frontend I put links for each of the 26 letters and one for numbers. When you click on one it sends this letter via AJAX to the server. Then I need to select the pages somehow of which the title starts with that letter.

something like…

if($_GET['letter'] != '') {$letter = $_GET['letter'];} else $letter = '';

…

if (isset($letter)) {
    $matches = $pages->find("limit=0, title[0] == $letter");
}

thanks for help!

[Jan Romero]

The ^= operator should do it:

$matches = $pages->find("limit=0, title ^= '$letter'");

Quote

^=  Contains the exact word or phrase at the beginning of the field