Fetch all values for custom field as loop

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I’m looking for a way to get a list of all the values that exist for a certain custom field across all pages (or child pages of a certain page).

For instance if I have a custom field called Area I want to get a loop of every value that exists for that field. Ideally as a loop that I can add the value as a link to (I want to use them to filter the listings further using URL params, but don’t want to create every one manually).

Example

Title: Page 1
Area: London

Title: Page 2
Area: Manchester

Title: Page 3
Area: Birmingham

I want to be able to loop through these:

London (links to /area:London/)

Manchester (links to /area:Manchester/)

Birmingham (links to /area:Birmingham/)

So I can create links from them.

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You can use the pluck() function, which goes through all pages and plucks the values. If you want every value only once, you can use the unique flag.

$areas = $site->index()->pluck('area', null, true);

The you can loop through the collection and output each entry together with a link by which you can then filter.

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Works perfectly. I’d seen Pluck around but didn’t think it applied here. Guess I’ll have to experiment with it a bit more. Thanks :smile:

Here’s the code I’ve used in case it helps anyone else:

<?php $areas = $site->index()->pluck('area', null, true);?>
		
    <?php foreach($areas as $area): ?>
			
       <a href="<?php echo $page->url().'/area:'. $area ;?>/"><?php echo $area;?></a>
			
    <?php endforeach ?>`