Get child pages of pages using a certain template?

[antknight]

I would like to get all the child pages of the news-month-archive template sort them by -news_date and limit to 10 per page. This is what I have at the moment:

<?php 
      $results = $pages->find("template=news-item, sort=-news_date, limit=10"); 
      $pagination = $results->renderPager(array(
      'numPageLinks' => "5",
      'nextItemLabel' => "Next",
      'previousItemLabel' => "Prev",
      'listMarkup' => "<ul class='MarkupPagerNav'>{out}</ul>",
      'itemMarkup' => "<li class='{class}'>{out}</li>",
      'linkMarkup' => "<a href='{url}'><span>{out}</span></a>"));
      echo "<ul class='list'>";
      foreach($results as $result) {
        echo "<li class='list-item'>";
        echo "<section>";
        echo "<h5><a href='{$result->url}'>{$result->title}</a></h5>";
        echo "<em>{$result->news_date}</em>";
        if($result->body) {
        $summary = substr($result->body, 0, 150); 
				if(($pos = strrpos($summary, ".")) !== false) {
				$summary = substr($summary, 0, $pos); 
				};
        echo "<p>{$summary} <a href='{$result->url}'>...more</a></p>";
      	}
        echo "</section>";
      }      
      echo "</ul>";
      echo $pagination;
      ?>

How can I rewrite the selector to achieve this?

I tried 

$results = $pages->find("template=news-month-archive")->children("sort=-news_date, limit=10"); 

but I get a server error?

Many Thanks

[diogo]

The result of the find is an array, so you can't get the children of it. If there's only one page with that template you can do:

$results = $pages->get("template=news-month-archive")->children("sort=-news_date, limit=10"); 

[antknight]

Arrrgghhh it's always the little things that trip me up. Thanks diogo

[antknight]

So there are two selectors I need:

One to grab all pages that are children of the news-month-archive template site wide.

One to grab all pages that are children of the news-month-archive template in the current rootParent

Anybody help me out?

[ryan]

One to grab all pages that are children of the news-month-archive template site wide.

$pages->find("parent.template=news-month-archive"); 

One to grab all pages that are children of the news-month-archive template in the current rootParent

$page->rootParent->find("parent.template=news-month-archive"); 

[antknight]

parent.template......interesting! Thanks

[Macaco]

Hi guys, I'm having a problem with multiple-languages.

I want to make a list of all the children of one page even if the title field has been only populated in one of the languages, yet the link should point to the page in the currently selected language.

Didn't figure out yet :(.... 

[dragan]

Well, there are two things to watch out for:

• Is the page activated in the alt. language?
• How is the title-field configured in the alt. lang. page version?

At field-level, you can define the behaviour of what's shown, in the details-tab:

If you use the option shown above, you still have to make sure the alt. lang. page version is activated.

[Macaco]

Hi Dragan, I started working from the multi-language profile.

the field is "Title (multi-language)" and it has "Inherit value from default language" on.

Although the page's children can be created from another page using a field (page reference). which seems to only populate the english field.

27 minutes ago, dragan said:

alt. lang. page version is activated

I'm not sure I understand the alt lang version.

 

[dragan]

1 hour ago, Macaco said:

I'm not sure I understand the alt lang version.

I mean this:

note the "active" checkboxes.

1 hour ago, Macaco said:

Although the page's children can be created from another page using a field (page reference). which seems to only populate the english field.

OK, now I know a bit better what you mean. These pages are not created "manually" in the admin, but from a page-reference field that has the option "allow to create new pages?" in the field settings.

If that is indeed the case, I wouldn't know what the expected / default behavior would be. Only create the page in the default language? (which seems to be the case). I don't know if that is configurable. I don't have time right now to investigate - maybe you'd have to use a hook to automatically activate all languages when creating a new page like that.

[Macaco]

Ah! You are right, when I create a new page"manually", it comes as "active" by default. But when the page is created from page-reference it doesn't.

I'm gonna look into the hook.

Thank you Dragan, 

PS. apologies for using the wrong thread, I guess it should be in multi-language.