Get Page Reference Title

[RyanJ]

Hello,

Im using the following structure

Location 1
  - Employee
     -- John Doe
     --Jane Doe

  - Department
    -- Confused Department
    --Even More Confused

Each employee is assigned a department which I am using a select page reference field. I need to be able to print the title of the department.

I am using the following to output my fields, but for the "department" field, I can only get it to print the id.  I am assuming this is because its only a page reference field as to why it will not print the title.  Any tips are appreciated

$employees = $page->find("template=profile");
         foreach ($employees as $employee) { 
          echo '<tr>';
             echo "<td>{$employee->first_name}</td>";
             echo "<td>{$employee->last_name}</td>";
             echo "<td>{$employee->job_title}</td>";
             echo "<td>{$employee->department}</td>";
             echo "<td><a href='{$employee->url}'>Profile</a></td>";
             echo '</tr>';
 

I have tried 

echo "<td>{$employee->department->title}</td>";
 

with no luck

Edited May 30, 2013 by RJay

[RyanJ]

Okay, so I figured it out sorta.

I had to change the field type to "Single page (Page) or empty page (NullPage) when none selected" instead of the multiple pages. Also if I tried the single page boolean, I threw this error "Trying to get property of non-object".

Maybe someone can educate me today on how this would work or if it could work with the multiple page array?

[kongondo]

If it is Multiple Page Reference you will need to do a foreach on it to grab the pages since that returns an array. You can then echo out the fields in those pages...

[RyanJ]

Thanks Kongondo,

I am guessing I would have to do a foreach within the current foreach?

[kongondo]

Yes...

http://processwire.com/talk/topic/683-page-content-within-another-page/