User variable as parent

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1

Hello,

unfortunately I need help again.

I create Children with Page::create(). So far everything works, including the assignment to a parent page. A parent page is a page that always has the same title as the user’s ID.

However, if I now want to replace the parent information with a variable, the child page is no longer assigned to the parent, but is created as a page of the first level.

What’s the reason?

Here is my code:

$userID = $kirby->user()->id();

        $newPage = Page::create([
          'slug' => $data['name'],
          'draft' => false,
          'template' => 'file',
          'parent' => page($userID),
          'content' => [
            'title' => $data['name']
          ]
        ]);

I have already tried $pages->find($userID) instead of page($userID), but unfortunately that doesn’t work either.

Thank you very much!

2

Could you show us what your page structure looks like?

3

Thanks for the quick reply.

As top level pages I have two pages, named as the IDs of my two users.

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The pages I want to create with Page:create() should be children of the top level page assigned to ID of the current logged in user.

4

Ok, thanks. In which context are you using the above code snippet? Theoretically it should work fine. If you hard-code the page id, it works?

5

Inside a function in the page controller. The kirby, page and pages objects are assigned to the controller.

When I replace the variable by a sample user ID, everything is working fine.

6

But do you define $kirby inside that function or pass it as paramater?

7

I pass it as parameter.

return function ($kirby, $page, $pages, $site) {
...
}

Although, when I add

$kirby = kirby();

nothing changes.

8

It would be helpful if you post the relevant method inside your controller, if it is not too long, post the complete controller, otherwise remove everything that is not important.

9

I solved the problem, even if I don’t know exactly why.

$userID = $kirby->user()->id(); was previously within the If condition if ($kirby->request()->is('POST') && get('createFile')).

Now I have defined $userID before the if condition and it works.

Thank you anyway for the help!