Just got a quick question.. I'm trying to create a big ul of children of several different pages for a directory site I'm creating..

At the moment in the page template I have got a few <% ChildrenOf (page-name)%> tags all listed out. Is there a better way to do it? I have been trying to create a function to group them all together but I cant work it out, something like this:

function SpecificChildren() {

static $allowed_children = array('page-name1', 'page-name2');

}

Should that work? Then in the template have something like this:

<ul>
<% control SpecificChildren %>
<li><a href="$Link" title="$Title">$Title</a></li>
<% end_control %>
</ul>

Is there a better way to do it?

Basically it is:

<% if Children %>
<ul>
<% control Children %>
<li><a href="$Link" title="$Title.XML">$Title.XML</a></li>
<% end_control %>
</ul>
<% end_if %>

If you want to blacklist/whitelist the display of the children, you could do something like this:

class Page extends SiteTree {
	static $db = array("VisibleInList"=>"Boolean");
	function getCMSFields() {
		$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
		// @todo add checkbox for VisibleInList
		return $fields;
	}
}

<% if Children %>
<ul>
<% control Children %>
<% if VisibleInList %>
<li><a href="$Link" title="$Title.XML">$Title.XML</a></li>
<% end_if %>
<% end_control %>
</ul>
<% end_if %>

Just an idea.

You can do something like this: -

In Template: -

<% control FilteredChildren %>
<% end_control %>

In Page Controller: -

public function getFilteredChildren()
{
	$children= DataObject::get("SiteTree", "ClassName = 'HomePage' OR ClassName ='OtherTypePage'", "ClassName ASC");
	return $children? $children : false;
}

For those stumbling on this...you should use ID instead of ClassName...I knew what Ed wanted to do, which isn't mentioned on this thread :O}