I’m looking to create a simple Next and Previous navigation on sibling pages to allow the user to click through them. They are all on a single level. I’ve found some docs and an add-on (link below) but these are aimed at displaying data lists no pages. I cant seem to find any tutorial or information on how this can be achieved. I was advised on the following starting point but not sure how to finish it:
$nextlink = SiteTree::get()->filter(['ParentID' => $this->ParentID, 'Sort:GreaterThan' => $this->Sort])->first()->Link();
https://github.com/fromholdio/silverstripe-paged
https://docs.silverstripe.org/en/4/developer_guides/search/searchcontext/
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Answer
uhm, yeah, the code you have there is exactly what you need to get the link of the next page.
Let me break it down:
$nextlink = SiteTree::get()->filter(['ParentID' => $this->ParentID, 'Sort:GreaterThan' => $this->Sort])->first()->Link();
is the one liner version of:
$allPages = SiteTree::get(); $allPagesOnTheSameLevel = $allPages->filter(['ParentID' => $this->ParentID]); // SilverStripe uses the DB Field "Sort" to decide how to sort Pages. // Sort 0 is at the top/beginning, Sort 999... at the end. So if we want the next // page, we just need to get the first page that has a higher "Sort" value than // the current page. Normally ->filter() would search for equal values, but if you // add the modifier `:GreaterThan` than it will search with >. And for PreviousPage // you can use :LessThan $currentPageSortValue = $this->Sort; $allPagesAfterTheCurrentPage = $allPagesOnTheSameLevel->filter(['Sort:GreaterThan' => $currentPageSortValue]); $nextPageAfterTheCurrentPage = $allPagesAfterTheCurrentPage->first(); if ($nextPageAfterTheCurrentPage && $nextPageAfterTheCurrentPage->exists()) { $nextlink = $nextPageAfterTheCurrentPage->Link(); }
this is PHP code, and it assumes that $this
is the current page you are viewing.
Assuming you have a standard setup with pages being rendered, you could use it the following way:
(though, I made 1 small modification. Instead of calling ->Link() in php, in the example below I call it in the Template. Instead, I return the full $nextPageAfterTheCurrentPage to the template, this allows me to also use $Title in the template if that is needed)
<?php // in your app/srv/Page.php namespace ; use SilverStripeCMSModelSiteTree; class Page extends SiteTree { // other code here // add this function: public function NextPage() { $allPages = SiteTree::get(); $allPagesAfterTheCurrentPage = $allPages->filter(['ParentID' => $this->ParentID, 'Sort:GreaterThan' => $this->Sort]); $nextPageAfterTheCurrentPage = $allPagesAfterTheCurrentPage->first(); return $nextPageAfterTheCurrentPage; } // other code here }
and then, in the template (probably Page.ss
), you can do:
<!-- other html here --> <% if $NextPage %> <!-- you can use any propery/method of a page here. $NextPage.ID, $NextPage.MenuTitle, ... --> <!-- if you use something inside an html attribute like title="", then add .ATT at the end, this will remove other " characters to avoid invalid html --> <a href="$NextPage.Link" title="$NextPage.Title.ATT">To the next Page</a> <% end_if %> <!-- other html here -->
For previous page, just do the same thing again, but instead of searching/filtering for GraterThan the current Sort, you have to search/filter LessThan.