Load page with specific data isset

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1

Hello,

Perhaps it’s allready solved, I don’t really found…
I want to make two links for the same template that will change the array of the snippet inside.
I wrote the projects.html like that :

<?php snippet('header') ?>

  <main id="expositions" class="main" role="main">

    <header>
      <h1><?= $page->title()->html() ?></h1>
    </header>

    <section class="wrap">
      <div class="intro text">
        <?= $page->text()->kirbytext() ?>
      </div>
      <?php snippet('showcase', array('category' => myCategory)) ?>
    </section>

  </main>

<?php snippet('footer') ?>

And then, in my snippet I wrote that :

<?php if(isset($data)) $category = $category->limit($data);
      $expositions = page('expositions')->children()->visible();
      $expositions = $expositions->filterBy('category', $category);
      ?>

<ul class="showcase grid gutter-1">
<?php foreach($expositions as $exposition): ?>

    <li class="<?= $exposition->category() ?> showcase-item column">
        <a href="<?= $exposition->url() ?>" class="showcase-link">
          <?php if($image = $exposition->images()->sortBy('sort', 'asc')->first()): $thumb = $image->crop(600, 600); ?>
          <img src="<?= $thumb->url() ?>" alt="Thumbnail for <?= $exposition->title()->html() ?>" class="showcase-image" />
          <?php endif ?>
          <div class="showcase-caption">
            <h3 class="showcase-title"><?= $exposition->title()->html() ?></h3>
          </div>
        </a>
    </li>

<?php endforeach ?>
</ul>

Now, I wan’t to make two links with something like a data-attribute that can change the myCategory data, is it really possible ?

2

I don’t really understand your code.

What is myCategory in the template, that is neither a variable nor a string, but I suppose you want to pass a $categoryvariable (a collection of pages?, a parameter from the URL?) to the snippet.

What is $data, where does that variable come from (nowhere defined), but from the code I’d suppose it is a number.

But then you want to filter your exposition by category, but your category is defined as some sort of collection, so that code doesn’t really make sense.

3

The myCatergory will be a category of an exposition.

For the moment, when I replace it by 'permanent' or 'non-permanent' (for example) the data change and the page load only 'permanent' expositions or 'non-permanent' expositions in the page , it runs when I do it.

But now I want to load directly the page with the data set. I was thinking about get an attribut in the link to load the exposition page with that attribut instead of myCategory…

I don’t know if it’s clear…

4

Aha, ok, you want to sent a category as parameter via your URL. That is of course possible, e.g. a URL like this

https://mydomain.com/exhibitions/category: some-category

The you can fetch the category using the param() helper

$expositions = page('expositions')->children()->visible();
if($param = param('category')) {
  $expositions = $expositions->filterby('category', $param);
}

But then this code would be better of in the template or in a controller, and you pass the $expositions variable down to the snippet.

 <?php snippet('showcase', array('expositions' => $expositions)) ?>

Your snippet would then start with the list and the foreach loop.

You still haven’t explained what $data in your snippet is; if it is not an integer, why do you use it with the limit()method that expects an integer?

<?php if(isset($data)) $category = $category->limit($data); // data must be an integer here, otherwise this doesn't make sense; the limit method doesn't make sense if $category is a string

And if $category is just a category, then calling limit()on it doesn’t make any sense anyway, because for that to work, you would need some sort of collection.

5

Thank you ! It runs very well… I wanted to make it more complicated that it was.

I used the $data and the limit() for an old code… My bad, I wanted to go fast