Programmatically select pages

[maddmac 9]

Is there a method to programmatically select pages from a PageSelect based on the name of the page and associate them?  I want to pass an array of page names or a comma separated list. These page names would be looped through and then added as multi page select for a specific field. These are existing pages not new pages.  It's too cumbersome to manually select multiple pages

[bernhard 5,295]

I don't understand your question. Examples are always a good idea 😉 

[maddmac 9]

@bernhard no problem. I have a list of child pages that I want to associate with a page. For example I have a particular author that I want to programmatically associate book titles (pages) with an author what would be the best way of doing this programmatically without manually associating pages by the book title name? I can easily create a comma separated list of the books per Author name.

Douglas Adams (author-page)

These are all books (pages)

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)
• Book title 3
• Book title 4

 

 

[bernhard 5,295]

Sorry, I don't get what you mean by "programmatically" and I don't get your example. Maybe others can help 🙂 

[Jan Romero 491]

If you have a single page reference field called “author” on book pages (would probably recommend this way, even if you allow multiple authors per book):

$book = $pages->get('template=book, title="The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy"');
$author = $pages->get('template=author, title=Douglas Adams');
$book->of(false);
$book->author = $author;
$book->save();

If you have a multi page field called “books” on author pages:

$author = $pages->get('title=Douglas Adams');
$books = $pages->find('title="The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy"|"Life, the Universe and Everything"');
$author->of(false);
foreach ($books as $book)
    $author->books->add($book);
$author->save();

 

[maddmac 9]

Thanks @Jan Romero  This method seems to be much easier then I thought it would be