Calling a page's field page property

[davo]

I'm fairly new to pw but starting to get it.

My biggest issue is probably trying to explain my question, which is probably why I've not been able to search for an answer as I'm sure it's explained somewhere.

I have a page with a number of text fields.

The last field on the page is Town. This is a page type field that refers to a number of other pages called Towns.  The town pages consist of a title field and a country field, which is another page selector type.

I know this is briefly touched on in the video tutorial but doesn't quite cover what I'm trying to do.

So I'm trying to display the first page with it's fields including the Town.

So I would call it in the template like this:

echo $page->myfield

echo $page->myotherfield

but when it comes to town i tried this:

echo $page->town

but it returns the page ID I think when it renders the template.

Which I sort of understand, it does know which field to display so it displays the page id.

So how do I tell it to display the first field Title of that second page?

[diogo]

Not completely sure of what you want. I'm assuming that your pages fields accept only a single page, so this should work:

echo $page->town->title // title of chosen town
echo $page->town->country->title // title of chosen country inside the chosen town
 

edit: corrected typo

[davo]

Not completely sure of what you want. I'm assuming that your pages fields accept only a single page, so this should work:

echo $page->town->title // title of chosen town
echo $page->town_>country->title // title of chosen country inside the chosen town
 

Thank you. I'll try that a little later today and post back exactly what I get.

[davo]

unfortunately that didn't work for me.

So i've put a couple of lines below and the out put so maybe you can help me understand what's happening and how I can achieve what is probably very simple.

1<? echo $page->town_select->title; ?><br />
2<? echo $page->town_select->county; ?><br />
3<? echo $page->town_select->county; ?><br />
4<? echo $page->town->title; ?><br />
5<? echo $page->town; ?><br />
6<? echo $page->town_select; ?><br />
7<? echo $page->town_select->Title; ?><br />

and this is the output I get:

1

2

3

4

5

61011

7

As you can see "6<? echo $page->town_select; ?><br />" is the only line that returns anything.

 Output is held here:

http://www.garagesalefinder.co.uk/listing-parent/crazy-garage-sale/

My primary page includes the field town_select, this holds a single page selection where the town name is held in the 'title' field.

[davo]

SORRY

My fault entirely

I'd set it to hold a number of pages - when changed to single page it now works.

Also, i'd spelt county with a capital C not c. Changed that, and it works too.

Thanks for your help.

I'm sure I'll be back soon 

[kongondo]

Davo,

Welcome to PW and the forums. Note that if you have multiple pages or images in a field, PW will return an array. Hence, you would need to loop through them. Many people use foreach to loop through such arrays. 

[davo]

Thank you. That's actually what I was doing to retrieve the one and only first loop, I just knew there must have been an easier way to access a single row. I'd just forgotten to tell it in the setup that the field should only accept single choices not multiple. Thanks.