Move PageModel to SiteMethod

The CMS Questions
1

So far I have a PageMethod that returns future events. It looks something like this:


  public function upcomingEvents() {
        $events = $this->children()->listed()->filter(function($child){
            return $child->hasUpcomingDate();
        })->sortBy('nearestDate', 'asc');

        return $events;
    }

I now need the filter directly on the overview panel, so moving it to a siteMethod seemed to make sense so that I can also filter the events here.

This is now part of the config. However, it does not seem to work. What could be the problem?


'siteMethods' => [
        'upcomingEvents' => function() {
            $events = kirby()->site()->children()->listed()->filter(function($child){
                return $child->hasUpcomingDate();
            })->sortBy('nearestDate', 'asc');

            return $events;
        }
    ]
2

Why not use a collection?

3

I’m not sure if I can access collections in a blueprint query. Is that possible?

4

Yes you can with…

query: kirby.collection("some-collection")
5

Excellent, it works wonderfully

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6

Just on a side note, you could have kept your model method and used it in the overview panel just as well. The model method works everywhere you use a page of the given page type.

7

The scope of the model is events, which does not exist in the overview panel. There are only individual events here. I therefore assumed that I cannot access the model because the context is missing, right?

8

Sorry, I’m missing the context where you are planning to use the method vs. where you had been using the method.