Render Subpages Without Page-View Permission...

[robobobo]

Hello,

i tried to include subpages in a parent page...

The subpages should not be shown/accessible to any users especially for guests...

I built a page tree and some templates with user rights like this:

- Home

  -- Page (template -> access to all users + template-file: press-overview.php)

     --- SubPage1(template-access: no access to guest + template-file: press-article.php)

     --- SubPage2(template-access -> no access to guest + template-file: press-article.php)

     --- SubPage3(template-access -> no access to guest + template-file: press-article.php)

     --- SubPage....(template-access -> no access to guest + template-file: press-article.php)

Then I wrote something like this to include the pages in the press-overview.php:

foreach ($page->children( template=press-article') as $child) {

   $out .= $child->render(array('included'=>true)); // note: if there is no $option['included'] in the child-page then redirect...

}

... this way the content of the subpages isn't shown in the parent page for guest users ... in the frontend.

Is there a way to show pages 'included' by the 'page render function' even though the current users have no page-view-access to them"

I want to exclude these pages e.g. for sitemap.xml...

To hide the pages in the page tree is not an option!

Thanks in advance...

Robert

[robobobo]

I found a very simple solution!

foreach ($page->children('template=press-article, check_access=0') as $child) {

   $out .= $child->render(array('included'=>true));

}

It is quite simple: the solution is check_access=0

PW seems to have the right answer to any question!

Thanks for PW!

[Soma]

You don't need to remove view access at all. Just don't create a php file for the subpage template so it will not be directly viewable. So you dont need to turn access control off and can also search without adding that etc.

[Soma]

Access right is used for restricting pages for logged in users etc. I would avoid that solution in this case.

[robobobo]

Hi Soma,

thanks for your reply.

I know about the option 'template without templatefile' but in this case i can't use the render function, isn't it?

Would it be better to write my own function to render the subpages and include it, or generate the output directly on the parent page?

Please help me to find a  passable way to handle it.

[Soma]

Sure, specify a template file in the render method

$out .= $child->render("yoursubtemplate.php", array('included'=>true));

Or just your template but handle the "when directly viewed" and throw a 4040

In your subpage-template

if(!count($options['pageStack'])) {
   // not rendered from other page, pageStack will be empty
   throw new Wire404Exception();
}

... render output

Or 

if(!isset($options['included'])) {
   // not rendered from other page,"included" won't exist 
   throw new Wire404Exception();
}
... render output

[robobobo]

Oh, thanks...

i have already done this (thats not the problem):

$out .= $child->render(array('included'=>true)); // note: if there is no $option['included'] in the child-page then redirect...

and checkt for $option['included'] in the sub-templatefile...

I think i know what you mean: the solution is not to combine the template with the templatefile and then make a reference by parameter in the render function:

$out .= $child->render("press-article.php", array('included'=>true));

My mistake is, that i associate the template with the templatefile in the PW-Backend.

Thanks for your input!

[robobobo]

Another question:

how can i remove the association between a template and an templatfile, if it already exists??

Sorry for this newbie questions...

[robobobo]

Please ignore my last post,

i renamed the templatefile on the server and everything is ok.