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Latest pages widget for children pages
29 May 2010 at 5:01am
Hi guys,
I was wondering how I could modify the Latest pages widget from simon_w to show only the latest couple of children pages for a brief overview (in most cases only the title) of the children pages from a couple of parent pages (note: I don't want every page to have this for its own, Its more a static bar with the latest article titles.)
TIA
Dre -
Re: Latest pages widget for children pages
29 May 2010 at 11:39am Last edited: 29 May 2010 11:41am
(OP is referring to http://www.silverstripe.org/Latest-Pages/)
In the widget, the controller DataObject::get currently finds 5 results. Change the '5' to '2' and you've sorted one problem. You'll also want to make sure it only grabs the articles from certain sections, so add ParentID = $this->ID or whatever you need:
$pages = DataObject::get('SiteTree', 'ParentID = '.$this->ID, '`LastEdited` DESC', '', 5);
For issue two - showing a brief overview - you need to edit the template. In the control the anchor tag currently shows <span>$Page.MenuTitle</span>.
You will need to add $Page.Content or $Page.Content.Summary wherever you want it.
Hope this helps.
Edit: re-read what you said and adjusted accordingly
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Re: Latest pages widget for children pages
1 June 2010 at 7:44pm
Thats some very useful info, joshy. Thanks very much.
I'll try to implement this in my site and will keep you in touch.
Grtz, Dre
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Re: Latest pages widget for children pages
2 June 2010 at 2:39am
A little thought:
I guess, from the code Joshy posted that this will show only the latest couple of articles from the parent page I'm on atm.
This is at least a part of what I want to show, maybe I can look into it myself when I have some spare time.
My point actually was to show the same couple of parent pages with the latest children pages on a main sidebar the whole time.I suppose this has to be some hardcoded ID to use, or via a little bit of control on the CMS side?
For the time being a hardcoded ID wouldn't be much of a problem.TIA
Dre -
Re: Latest pages widget for children pages
2 June 2010 at 8:20pm
I have changed the LatestPages function a bit to accomplish a part of my needs.
I can now see the children pages on the sidebar when I'm on the parent page, although when I switch to one of the children, the data on the sidebar is gone.this is the code I have:
function LatestPages($amount) {
if($amount == null) { $amount = 3; }
$pages = DataObject::get('SiteTree', 'ParentID = '.$this->ID, '`LastEdited` DESC', ' ', $amount);
$return = new DataObjectSet();
foreach($pages as $page) {
$versioned = Versioned::get_version("SiteTree", $page->ID, $page->Version);
$author = Member::get_one("Member", "ID = " . (int)$versioned->AuthorID);
$parent = Member::get_one('SiteTree', $page->ParentID);
$return->push(new ArrayData(array('Page' => $versioned, 'Author' => $author, 'Parent' => $parent)));
}
return $return;
}I'm not yet familiar with implementing a module in the CMS to select pages that should be shown in the sidebar, maybe this would be a much better and easier approach.
Cheers, Dre
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