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1. leesus.
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm currently working on a site using WP as a cms and I've hit a roadblock. I'm using main parent pages to show product (child) pages as thumbnails. This works ok, the problem is I've got a special offers page that may not have child pages. I want to test if the page has children, if it does show the thumbnails as it is currently, if not display a generic "sorry we don't have anything on offer" message.

   Anyone know if I can test if it the page has child pages or not (sorry, PHP isn't my strong point!)

   Thanks in advance

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   How about using <?php $children = get_pages('child_of='.$post->ID);?>

   This will list children & grandchildren. If you only want the immediate children, use <?php $children = get_pages('child_of='.$post->ID.'&parent='.$post->ID);?>

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_pages

3. leesus.
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks esmi, I don't think thats what I'm after though.

   I've already got the template to show a list with thumbnails of the page's child pages. What I need is a way of displaying a different message if there are no child pages, or listing them in the way I am currently if there are.

   Example of what I mean: if ($page_has_children) { show my list as normal } else { show "no offers" text }

   How could I do the $page_has_children test to then write a statement around?

   Hope that makes sense!

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   <?php
   $children = get_pages('child_of='.$post->ID);?>
   if( count( $children ) != 0 ) { show list as normal }
   else { show "no offers" text }
   ?>

5. abdulchalik
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   @esmi:great...thanks a lot

6. maark0_o
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   @esmi
   Thanks, this helped me too.

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