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How to generate a list of related items from Collections

Building our first site in Runway... and using Collections for content types - Products, Producers and Regions.

We are using one list/detail Product page and perch:related inside the detail content template to load a template of Producers, so it displays in the detail view of Product. That is all good. But we want to generate a list of other items related to the Producer in this template.

Is there an ideal way to do this??
Stuart Farrell

Stuart Farrell 0 points

  • 5 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

You'd list your Producers collection, using a template with the required perch:related tags to display the related content.
Stuart Farrell

Stuart Farrell 0 points

5 years ago

Yeah so, in our detail template we have:

<perch:related id="producerDetails" collection="Producer" label="Producer" divider-before="ABOUT THE PRODUCER" >
   <perch:template path="content/producer.html" />
</perch:related>

But inside this "producer" template, how can we list other items by this same producer?
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

You'd need to pull that data from the Items collection.
Stuart Farrell

Stuart Farrell 0 points

5 years ago

OK, we added some system variables...

foreach($producersCoffeeList as $producerCoffeeList) {
$arrayProducer[] = $producerCoffeeList['coffeeTitle'];
$arrayProducerLink[] = $producerCoffeeList['slug'];
}

PerchSystem::set_var('arrayProducer',$arrayProducer);
PerchSystem::set_var('arrayProducerLink',$arrayProducerLink);

(Producer template)

<perch:content id="arrayProducer" collection="Coffee">
<li>
   <a href="coffee.php?item=<perch:content id="arrayProducerLink" />&producer=<perch:content id="producerName" />&origin=<perch:content id="???" />">
   <perch:content id="arrayProducer" />
   </a>
</li>
</perch:content>

Gotta work out Origin yet, but is this the best way to go about this?
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

What's origin? I'm completely lost!
Stuart Farrell

Stuart Farrell 0 points

5 years ago

Sorry - Region, just one of the collections.

We will add another array for that.... but is this method the best approach for Runway and Collections?