If collection cover field has an image/value

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1

I feel like I should be able to do this by now, seeing as I already do things like if bla bla toFile() etc… but I can’t seem to get my head around this one.

My home controller is as follow:

<?php

return function ($site) {

    $limit = 5;

    $list = page('blog')->children()->listed()->sortBy('itemDate', 'desc', 'itemTime', 'desc')->limit(5);

    if ($site->find('photography')) {
        $album = page('photography')->children()->listed()->sortBy('itemDate', 'desc', 'itemTime', 'desc')->limit(5);

        $list = $list->add($album)->sortBy('itemDate', 'desc', 'itemTime', 'desc');
    }

    return [
        'list' => $list
    ];

};

I have a field called cover which is obviously an image field and on other pages I will use the if toFile method, but this one I only want to get children that have a cover image.

Is it something like

$list = page(‘blog’)->children()->listed()->sortBy(‘itemDate’, ‘desc’, ‘itemTime’, ‘desc’)->hasImages()->limit(5);

(this doesn’t work btw)

2

Only a page has an hasImages() method. Here we are dealing with a collection, so you would have to filter by the cover field. This should work:

$list = $list->filter(function($child) {
  return $child->cover()->toFile();
});

On a side note, if you use the combined list only, it doesn’t really make sense to sort them twice…

3

Photography may or may not exist so the combined list may never trigger, but I have just changed my return for list to sort and limit.

return [
        'list' => $list->sortBy('itemDate', 'desc', 'itemTime', 'desc')->limit(5)
    ];

I will look at the filter - just read the documents, seems to be what I need.

Thanks.