Using arrays with is_page() doesn’t seem to work…help pls?

  • Resolved f00bar

    (@f00bar)


    14 years, 6 months ago

    Hi everyone,

    I’m working on a site that has child pages, and I’m needing to use them as links on a menu. I’m using wp_list_pages() for that.

    However, when I click a child page link, it will display the top level menu instead. So, having looked through the Function Reference I found is_page() and used the following code to get the correct page IDs:

    $aboutchildren=get_pages("child_of=53");
$aboutlinks.=53;

foreach($aboutchildren as $child) :
	$aboutlinks.=",".(integer) $child->ID;
endforeach;

if(is_page(array($aboutlinks))) :
   //put the links for the about page here...
else :
   //put main links.
endif;

    Just to explain, 53 is the ID of the top level About page. However, event though the correct IDs are being passed in the $aboutlinks array, the code doesn’t pick it up – it ONLY works if I literally write the array by hand (i.e. is_page(array(1,2,3,4,5)) etc.). Is there a reason why this won’t work? I really don’t want to have to hard code the IDs, in case they change or more pages are added.

    Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

    Thank you
    Michael

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  • That’s because you only have one item in the array..

    Basically what you have above creates a string of numbers, ie ‘1,2,3’, and then wraps them in an array, ie. array(‘1,2,3’), leaving your array with one item..

    Creating an array.

    $my_array = array();

    Adding to the array.

    $my_array[] = 33;

$my_array[] = 55;

..and so on..

    Have made the same mistake myself in the past, just because the string is created in a similar manner to how you’re write out the items in an array doesn’t mean they’ll automatically convert into array items for you.

    https://php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php

    Hope that helps.

    Thread Starter f00bar

    (@f00bar)

    Ah I get it! That’s me being a bit of an idiot really..thank you for enlightening me!

    You’re welcome.. ??

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