Mixing two modules Articles(new) and Pages

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• almostcompletely

  April 2017 edited 2:38AM

  There's two ways, the hard way - as you describe - where you would need to overload the pages module with your own code, or the easy way where you acquire the page identifier, run a $module->find_all() to get the articles and display them - do that inside the ./views/_layouts/main.php. You could build a helper to make it easier.
• developmate

  April 2017 edited 2:38AM

  @almostcompletely thx! And it has to work both ways - when I want to publish new article, I need to list all available pages and assign the art to some page... If someone has more advices please drop a line!
• admin

  April 2017 edited 2:38AM

  If you create an Articles module, you can use a the "multi" field in your Page layout and use the "model" parameter to populate the select field with the articles you want to associate with it. Below is an example if you used a Custom layout class:
  http://docs.getfuelcms.com/general/layouts#layouts_custom_classes
  function fields() { $fields = parent::fields(); // PUT YOUR FIELDS HERE... $fields['articles'] = array('type' => 'multi', 'model' => 'Articles_model'); return $fields; }
  This would save the IDs of the related articles in for that page and then you could do something like the following in your layout and/or view file:
  $articles = fuel_model('articles', 'within', array($articles)); foreach($articles as $article) : echo $article->title; endforeach;
• developmate

  April 2017 edited 2:38AM

  @admin that was very helpful - thank you! So let's get down to work:)