How to show first child directly

[gerald]

Hi everybody, I have a main menu item with children. By clicking on the main menu item, automatically the first child should be displayed. How to solve this problem? If a similar question has already been answered - sorry, could´nt find it. Thanks very much.

Gerald, Austria

[owzim]

either you modify the links while creating the menu, like in this approach: https://processwire.com/talk/topic/4261-parent-pages-and-their-behavior/

or you put this in the template which wraps the child pages:

$session->redirect($page->children->first()->url);

[kongondo]

Or if you are lazy like me...
 
This should work as well, I think...

$session->redirect($page->child()->url);

In some cases, can be a good idea to first check if page actually has children ...

if($page->numChildren) $session->redirect($page->child()->url)

Oh, and welcome to PW!

Edited: corrected code, etc... 

Edited May 15, 2014 by kongondo

[owzim]

Or if you are lazy like me...

This should work as well, I think...

$session->redirect($page->child->url);

Oh, and welcome to PW!

Nice shortcut, did not know it existed. But I think it's less expressive =)

[totoff]

https://processwire.com/talk/topic/15-how-do-i-create-a-page-that-redirects-to-its-first-child/?p=25

[gerald]

Thx to all. Simple solution works great.