Return content from certain template but only from child pages

[Franko]

Here is my current code

<?php foreach($pages->find('template=basic-page') as $c): ?>

<li><a href="<?=$c->url;?>"><img src="<?=$c->listImage->url;?>" alt="<?=$c->listImage->description;?>" width="100" height="100"> <?=$c->listImage->description;?> <span>View More</span></a></li>

<? endforeach; ?>

 

What I don't know how to do is return content from the template basic-page but only from child pages.

 

I'm thinking maybe I can just return the fields from the children pages without calling the template but I do not know how. 

 

Suggestions would be appreciated. 

[adrian]

Sounds a little confusing - all pages, except Home, are child pages of something, so it all has to be relative to the parent page you're interested in.

If you know the parent you can do:

foreach($pages->get("parent=xxxxxxx")->children() as $c){

Maybe if you provide the page tree structure for us we can help figure out an efficient way.

[Franko]

Home

 Page A 

   Child  Page

   Child  Page

 Page B

   Child Page

   Child Page

All Child pages have the same template. I want to return listimage field from child pages but only to their parents. 

[adrian]

Well I think this should work:

foreach($pages->find("template=basic-page, parent!=/") as $c)

That will get all pages with basic-page template but without home (/) as their direct parent. Of course this won't work if you end up with further levels of child nesting. But right now, Page A and Page B should be excluded by this.

[Franko]

Oh I see what you did and that works by returning list image from home page but I would to return listimage from child pages as in Page A as Parent. So in other words I want Page A to display listimage from its child pages and I want page B to display listimage only from it's child pages. 

[adrian]

Oh I see, so your selector is relative to PageA and PageB as the current $page ?

In that case this should work when run from PageA or PageB:

foreach($page->children() as $c){

or

foreach($page->children("template=basic-page") as $c){

Do the "Child Pages" ever get loaded by their URL?

If so and because they have the same basic-page template, you need to do something else to prevent them for looking for child pages.

You could simply do:

if($page->numChildren()>0){
    foreach($page->children() as $c){
}

Or perhaps it would actually make more sense to have a separate template for the PageA and PageB parents?

Lots of options really

[Franko]

foreach($page->children() as $c){

This worked exactly as I was trying to do it. Thank you very much adrian!