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I am about to create several pages via API. In another script I populate the fields per language. 

I found that each page generated via API, even when alternative languages are also populate, they are inactive by default.

Is there an API method to set it to active? Either when creating a page, or when updating it (setting field values).

(PW 2.3.2 setup)

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Thanks!

Just in case anybody else searches for similar things, here's a simple example

$en = 'status' . $languages->get('en');
$us = 'status' . $languages->get('us');
$fr = 'status' . $languages->get('fr');

$pag = $pages->find("parent=1072, template='product'");

foreach($pag as $p) {
    $p->setOutputFormatting(false); // not sure if necessary here - I made it a habit to always include it, just in case...
    $p->$en = 1;
    $p->$fr = 1;
    $p->$us = 1;
    $p->save();
} 
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In case you want it a little more simpler :)

$pages->setOutputFormatting(false);
$pag = $pages->find("template=basic-page");
foreach($pag as $p) {
    foreach($languages as $lang) {
      if($lang->isDefault()) continue;
      $p->set("status$lang", 1);
      $p->save();
    }
} 
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Just a little update because of new API additions, so now you could just do

foreach ($pag as $p) {
    foreach ($languages->find('name!=default') as $lang) {
        $p->setAndSave("status$lang", 1);
    }
}

Thanks @szabesz for mentioning I'm adding this here for completeness

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"This method does not need output formatting to be turned off first, so make sure that whatever value(s) you set are not formatted values.", which is not the case with languages but worth mentioning nonetheless: https://processwire.com/api/ref/page/set-and-save/

 

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17 hours ago, Can said:

could just do

Thanks Can! We might want to add: "This method does not need output formatting to be turned off first, so make sure that whatever value(s) you set are not formatted values.", which is not the case with languages but worth mentioning nonetheless: https://processwire.com/api/ref/page/set-and-save/

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took me some time today to find out why my page was not showing up...

i ended up creating a hook that does what apeisa had in his mind some years ago :D

On 26.10.2013 at 5:28 PM, apeisa said:

Just hitted this myself. Should all languages be active from API by default? That would be in line with how it functions in admin.

// set all languages active automatically
$wire->addHookAfter('Pages::added', function($event) {
  $page = $event->arguments(0);
  foreach ($this->wire->languages as $lang) $page->set("status$lang", 1);
  $page->save();
});

does anybody see any danger in that? i'm not so experienced with multilang yet...

edit: somehow it seems that ->setAndSave(...) does NOT work in this situation. @Can or @dragan can you confirm that?

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I'm sorry, but I have never used hooks until now. When creating pages directly with the API, I made it a habit to simply add the necessary language actions in the same script.

Basically, you then use $page->save() twice.

1st step: add page, define parent, template, fill field values etc. save #1.

2nd step: with the new page id you get, add the lang. actions (status etc.). save #2.

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If you want to do this just for a specific language, find the ID of this language and replace {id}, including the curly braces with this ID in the following code:

$pag = $pages->find("has_parent!=2");
foreach($pag as $p) {
   $p->setAndSave("status{id}", 1);
}

 

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