Hello,
In the course of a project, due to poor planning we added two unrelated page types, VideoPage and ArticlePage that both have a YouTube string holding the YouTube ID. ArticlePage, the newer one was added later for some content purposes and -could- absorb a VideoPage (it has more variables, but the video variable is the same and really for the client's workflow, it would be a hindrance AND more than 200 VideoPages are already live and still being added to some sections. Also the holder pages function with them as well.
Now. On a particular page I need to aggregate both these page types to show ALL the pages where the YouTube string isn't empty - that means, ArticlePages and VideoPages, and the dataobjectset needs to be paginated.
I was thinking first to migrate the old page type into the new one. Due to the live and draft stages and the fragile SiteTree table this sounds like a bit of a dangerous task. The VideoPages either wouldn't be in the ArticlePage tables or I would lose the video variable if changing the class type.
So now I am guessing a custom SQL query will do. How can I select VideoPages and ArticlePages WHERE Video!="" but still preserve the pagination capabilities? Merging dataobjectsets therefore doesn't work.
VideoPage
class VideoPage extends Page {
static $db = array(
"YouTube" => "Varchar(255)"
);
...
ArticlePage
class ArticlePage extends Page implements PermissionProvider {
static $db = array(
"YouTube" => "Varchar(255)",
...
VideoAggregatorPage
class PhotoVideoCollector extends Page {
...
function getPaginatedVideos() {
if(!isset($_GET['start']) || !is_numeric($_GET['start']) || (int)$_GET['start'] < 1) $_GET['start'] = 0;
$SQL_start = (int)$_GET['start'];
if(!isset($this->NumberItems) || $this->NumberItems<=0) {
$n=12;
}
else {
$n= $this->NumberItems;
}
return $this->getAllVideos($SQL_start,$n);
}
public function getAllVideos($start=0,$n=0, $random=false) {
if($random) {
$sort="RAND()";
}
else {
$sort = "Created DESC";
}
$doSet = DataObject::get(
$callerClass = "VideoPage",
$filter = "YouTube !=''",
$sort,
$join = "",
$limit = "{$start},$n"
);
return $doSet ? $doSet : false;
}
Thanks for any insight!
