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Retrieving content from multiple regions

I have a subpages that my client can create that produce two regions (overview, documents). 'Overview" region contains name and description of duties, "Documents" region is a list of files by date (sometimes over 100 files, hence why its not included directly in the Overview region to manage easier)

I would like to pull in the page name that both these regions appear under from navigation or if thats not possible from the "overview region" group-name ID.

Visual of what I'm trying to do: meetings-table
Seth Girardin

Seth Girardin 0 points

  • 5 years ago
Seth Girardin

Seth Girardin 0 points

5 years ago

I understand the to retrieve content from multiple regions you have to sort by a common ID, and it needs to also put them in the correct order.

But I'm not sure I even need to involve the "overview" region if I can get the PageTitle another way, much like special ID value _page works for linking purposes.
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

I'm not completely clear on what you're now asking! Sorry.

Are you saying you can use _page?
Seth Girardin

Seth Girardin 0 points

5 years ago

No problem. Hard to explain as well. I'll start again.

My client can create new groups of people themselves, these new pages create two regions. One region is a "main content" area for text details of group and the other is "meetings" region which is basically a list of dates with two files attached.

I have a page called "Meetings" which pulls all the information:

perch_content_custom(array('Main content', 'Meetings'), array(
    'page'=>'/town-government/boards-and-committees/*',
    'template'=>'/meetings/meeting_minutes.html',
    'sort' => 'meeting_date',
    'sort-order' => 'DESC',
    'filter' => 'meeting_date',
    'match' => 'lte',
    'value' => date('Y-m-d 23:59:59')

    ));

How its structured:

meetings1

Title I would like to get:

meetings2
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

So for each item you want to display the title of the page it came from?
Seth Girardin

Seth Girardin 0 points

5 years ago

Yes, exactly.
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago 
perch_content_custom(array('Main content', 'Meetings'), array(
    'page'=>'/town-government/boards-and-committees/*',
    'template'=>'/meetings/meeting_minutes.html',
    'sort' => 'meeting_date',
    'sort-order' => 'DESC',
    'filter' => 'meeting_date',
    'match' => 'lte',
    'value' => date('Y-m-d 23:59:59')
    'each' => function($item) {
        if (isset($item['_pageID'])) {
            $Content = PerchContent::fetch();
            $Page = $Content->get_page_by_id($item['_pageID']);
            if ($Page) {
                $item['_page_title'] = $Page->pageTitle();
            }
        }
        return $item;
    }
 ));

Then in your template you can use id="_page_title"
Seth Girardin

Seth Girardin 0 points

5 years ago

Thanks so much. I learned a lot from your solution and couldn't have done it otherwise. :)

One thing missing to have it work was it also needed comma after the 'value' => date('Y-m-d 23:59:59'), line.