Best way to check for page status

[gebeer]

Hello,

I need to find a good way to check for the status of a page, whether it is unpublished or not.

If I do

echo $page->status

I get these values:

published: 1

unpublished: 2049

hidden and published: 1025

hidden and unpublished: 3073

My page is hidden by default. So to check for unpublished state I do

if ($page->status == 3073)

which is working fine.

Only thing that worries me is that I know nothing about these status codes and whether it will always be 3073 for hidden and unpublished.

So if you know  a more generic way of doing this, please share it here. Thank you.

Cheers

gerhard

[teppo]

Try $page->is() with status code flags. Example:
 

if ($page->is(Page::statusUnpublished))
if (!$page->is(Page::statusUnpublished))

[Martijn Geerts]

Or check with a string: `hidden, locked, unpublished, system, systemID`

$page->is('unpublished');

(Teppo was quicker !)

Edited December 9, 2013 by Martijn Geerts

[gebeer]

@teppo & Martijn

thanks a lot.

I knew there would be a better way to do this 

EDIT

Martijns solution doesn't seem to work in my case.

I first get the page by ID

$aktuell = $pages->get(1041);

If I then do 

if (!$aktuell->is('unpublished'))

the if condition is being ignored.

But with

if (!$aktuell->is(Page::statusUnpublished)) 

everything behaves as expected.

[Martijn Geerts]

maybe i'm wrong, but so far I see this should function.

/**
 * Does this page have the specified status number or template name?
 *
 * See status flag constants at top of Page class.
 * You may also use status names: hidden, locked, unpublished, system, systemID
 *
 * @param int|string|Selectors $status Status number, status name, or Template name or selector string/object
 * @return bool
 *
 */
public function is($status) {
	if(is_string($status) && isset(self::$statuses[$status])) $status = self::$statuses[$status]; 
	return $this->comparison()->is($this, $status);
}

[teppo]

@gebeer: Have you tried if "Unpublished" (capital "U") works? Just a guess, but it could be that

Edit: my guess was wrong; lowercase would work just fine. The issue is that the code Martijn posted above is from dev branch. If you're running stable (master) branch of ProcessWire, that won't work for you.

Edited December 9, 2013 by teppo

[gebeer]

Thank you for clarifying this. I'm on stable branch.