Build a navigation by ID

[KentBrockman]

Hey there,

currently we are developing our first project with Processwire. Coming from MODX Revolution we are absolutely impressed by the simplicity and power of processwire.

...and the speed of the Admin

All things are running great, except of one requirement. We got stuck on building a navigation by ID. Means we want to get a list of defined pages.
For example: "Show a list of pages with the ids 1, 1001, 1003, 1007"
 

$homepage = $pages->get("id=1,1001,1003");

Everything we tried (find, array and so on) didn't work.
What are we doing wrong?

Or is there a other "best-practice" to build a list like this?

Thank you so much for your support and all your efforts on this great project!

[Wanze]

Hi KentBrockman, welcome to ProcessWire.

There are two reasons why it doen't work:

1) $pages->get will return only one page. If you want multiple pages, you have to use $pages->find which returns a PageArray.

2) You need the OR selector: id=1|1001|1003

So you could try this:

$myPages = $pages->find("id=1|1001|1003");
foreach ($myPages as $p) {
  echo $p->title;
}

To make this more dynamic, you could add a checkbox field to the templates of pages you want to list, let's call the field "show_nav".

Then check the checkbox on the pages you want to appear and update the code:

$myPages = $pages->find("show_nav=1");

Of course this is only one possible solution out of 100 (infinity), with ProcessWire you have no limits

[diogo]

100 sounds like a limit to me...

edit:

another option would be to have a hidden page called "navigation" with a pageFieldType multiple in it where you could list the pages.

97 to go

[KentBrockman]

Wanze,

thank you for your fast answer to our question.
Your solution works right "out-of-the-box".

By looking at it again ("id=1,1001,1003") is truly embarrassing.

Grüße aus Deutschland.

[kongondo]

KentBrockman,

Welcome to ProcessWire!

/kongondo

[k07n]

Dumb question here:

Where can I find ID of the page in the backend?

[arjen]

Look in the url of the browser while editting a page:

/processwire/page/edit/?id=1007

[diogo]

Or hover the edit link on the tree and see it on the status bar of the browser.

[SiNNuT]

Dumb question here:

Where can I find ID of the page in the backend?

Or look in the status bar while hovering a page edit link, this can be quicker

diogo - resident forum ninja - strikes, once again

[diogo]

eheh

[k07n]

Or look in the status bar while hovering a page edit link, this can be quicker

diogo - resident forum ninja - strikes, once again

hint: if you know the answer, just click "Post" and then edit post  

[arjen]

Hover works too, but most of the time I'm fighting with the mouse to get a tooltip

[k07n]

Hover works too, but most of the time I'm fighting with the mouse to get a tooltip

/wire/modules/Process/ProcessPageList/ProcessPageList.js

function listChild(child) {
	//bla-bla-bla
	.attr('title', child.path)
	//bla-bla-bla

change to something like:

.attr('title', child.path + ' id' + child.id)

it will show ID on tooltip.

And the question =)

How made this not by hacking "core"?

[diogo]

hint: if you know the answer, just click "Post" and then edit post

Ninjas don't need this 

[Soma]

Only the green thing.

[pwired]

Look in the url of the browser while editting a page:

Or hover the edit link on the tree and see it on the status bar of the browser.

I'm in the interesting part of the forum. This is very useful to know and to work with.

[Soma]

A good developer knows every ID of his pages by memory.