Refreshing $page object after deleting child records

[Peter Falkenberg Brown]

Dear All,

I have some code where I get a page object, e.g. "$some_page", that has a child record.

Since $some_page->delete() won't work if there's a child record (unless there's a flag I'm missing),

I naturally added code to delete the child page first, e.g.

$child_page->delete();

After doing so, $some_page did not recognize that the child page had been deleted, and still complained,

until I added code to recreate the $some_page object, after the child page had been deleted.

After that, it all worked. My question is: Is there a better way to delete branches of pages than the method above?

A "force flag" to delete all children would be great. I'm probably missing something.

Thanks,

Peter

[Soma]

$pages->delete($page, true);

http://cheatsheet.processwire.com/?filter=delete

[Peter Falkenberg Brown]

Dear Soma,

I thought I must have missed something. Aarrgh.

I think a good PW slogan is, "ProcessWire just keeps getting better and better."

Thanks!

Peter

[Martijn Geerts]

The more you know the better it gets

[diogo]

Although is true that PW keeps getting better. I think Martijn's sentence is more accurate

[Peter Falkenberg Brown]

Dear Martijn and Diogo,

Yes, I entirely agree.

Peter