hi,

I just finished the tutorials and now I´m stuck with my news page. I want to have multiple pages from which the main homepage-news should get the newest articles. at the moment, it only gets the 5 newest articles from the articleHolder and ArticlePage pages. I think, I have to modify the homepage.php, at the moment it looks like this:

<?php
/**
 * Defines the HomePage page type
 */
 
class HomePage extends Page {
   static $db = array(
   );
   static $has_one = array(
   );
   static $icon = "themes/tutorial/images/treeicons/home";
 
}
 
class HomePage_Controller extends Page_Controller {
    function LatestNews($num=5) {
  $news = DataObject::get_one("ArticleHolder");
  return ($news) ? DataObject::get("ArticlePage", "ParentID = $news->ID", "Date DESC", "", $num) : false;
}

}
?>

I was thinking to just add another function but I don´t know if that would work. Also, it always should get the 5 newest from all categories/pages, not from each page.. could someone help me with this?

Also, it always should get the 5 newest from all categories/pages

Any pages? usually you don't want every single page included (i.e homepages) but if you wanted then you just get the root 'Page' objects.

function LatestNews($num=5) { 
return DataObject::get("Page", "", "Date DESC", "", $num); 
}

That also implies you have added a Date field to your Page.php file.

If you want to join multiple types in 1 LatestNews function then you can use multiple DataObject::get() calls then use merge() and getRange() to ensure you only get 5 (when you merged 5 + 5 = 10)

(http://api.silverstripe.org/2.4/sapphire/model/DataObjectSet.html)

function LatestNews($num=5) { 
$articles = DataObject::get("Article", "", "Date DESC", "", $num); 
$blogs = DataObject::get("BlogEntries", "", "Date DESC", "", $num); 

$articles->merge($blogs);
return $articles->getRange(0, $num)
}

hi willr,

yes, i wanted to only get news from certain page types, not all pages.

so, to get news from 3 sources i could use this?

function LatestNews($num=5) {
$articles = DataObject::get("Article", "", "Date DESC", "", $num);
$blogs = DataObject::get("BlogEntries", "", "Date DESC", "", $num);
$source3 = DataObject::get("PageTypesource3", "", "Date DESC", "", $num);

$articles->merge($blogs);
$articles->merge($source3);
return $articles->getRange(0, $num)
}

thanks, will try :D