Related entries: parents, childen ... what about siblings?

Ingmar Greil

Posted: 27 November 2006 07:14 AM

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I am using (reverse) related entries extenisvely on a site I am currently building. Works very well. And while I can easily link from “parent” entries to their “children”, and vice versa, I would like to link from one related article to others that are equally related: its siblings, for want of a better analogy.

Anybody tried anything like this?

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Daniel Walton

Posted: 27 November 2006 08:15 AM

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So, please correct me if im wrong, you want to show all entries related to the parent of the entry you are looking at? If i’m on the right track may i ask do the children have multiple parents?

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Ingmar Greil

Posted: 27 November 2006 08:53 AM

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Yes. I have one parent, multiple childern. When I view the parent, linking to the children is easy. Also, when viewing a child, linking back to the parent, no problem. What I want is a link to that child’s parent’s other children, ie siblings.

Of course, I could follow the link to the parent and then to any child I want. Children only have one parent, in my case at least.

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Daniel Walton

Posted: 27 November 2006 09:14 AM

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In that case Ingmar you could try doing the following. I understand this may not work - but it’s just an idea :D

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{my_weblog}" url_title="{segment_3}"}

<h1>{title}</h1>
{body}

Siblings:

{reverse_related_entries}
  {exp:weblog:entries entry_id="{entry_id}"}
    <ul>
    {related_entries id="my_field_name"}
      <li>{title}</li>
    {/related_entries}
    </ul>
  {/exp:weblog:entries}
{/reverse_related_entries}

{/exp:weblog:entries} 

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Ingmar Greil

Posted: 27 November 2006 09:17 AM

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I think I actually tried that. Perhaps not the exact code, but I had experimented with nesting related and reverse related entries. Well, I’ll give it a try anyway. This is by no means a must-have feature, you understand, and if push came to shove I suppose I could always query the database directly.

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Posted: 27 November 2006 09:26 AM

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I think it would make a perfectly reasonable FR. Infact - i can think of a site i’m working on right now that would benefit.

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Posted: 27 November 2006 09:40 AM

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So do I.

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