Passing an argument to a page - Best practice question

[Davis Harrison Dion]

Hello,

I'm drawing a blank and cannot seem to find the right answer to the question I think I'm asking, but:

If I want to display the contents of a page on another page, how can I pass some arguments to the page I want to display?

It's been a few months since I've touched this project. Thanks!

 

[Jan Romero]

If you use $myPage->render() you can use the options array:

echo $myPage->render(['lol' => 'dongs']);

/////// then on $myPage’s template /////////

echo $options['lol'];

Or you could just add the property to the Page object:

$myPage->set('lol', 'dongs');
echo $myPage->render();

/////// then on $myPage’s template /////////

echo $page->lol;

 

[Davis Harrison Dion]

@Jan Romero Thanks! That should work.

I think I incorrectly assumed after too quickly glancing at the api docs that render() is only for files and not for a selected page or pages.

[Jan Romero]

Yeah, the documentation is kind of buried: https://processwire.com/api/ref/page-render/render-page/. I don’t even know how to get there, really. The PageRender class doesn’t show up on the API frontpage at all…