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Automatically Redirect to the first Child Page without a Redirector Page

27 September 2011 | ekersten | URLs | Supports v2.4

This is a little snipped i've been using to redirect a custom page to it's first child. It extends the init method of the Controller. This has proven useful in cases where the client wants to re-sort the child pages and doesn't want to mess around the configuration of a redirector page.

function  init() {
	parent::init();

	if($this->Children()->Count()){
	    Director::redirect($this->Children()->First()->AbsoluteLink());
	}
}

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Automatically Redirect to the first Child Page without a Redirector Page

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Bart van Irsel
03/10/2011 2:25pm (2 years ago)

Hi ekersten,

Thanks for this tip, i use a ChildRedirectorPage for this which also links directly to the firstchild when $Link is used in the temaplte system.
I placed it here, maybe more people will like it:

http://www.sspaste.com/paste/show/4e89bf54c5fa3
vani
04/10/2011 5:16pm (2 years ago)

oh thank you very much for the code have been searching for a long time found it here finally<a href="http//www.iphone5mobile.blogpost.com/">iphone 5 spcifications</a>
vani
04/10/2011 5:17pm (2 years ago)

oh thank you very much for the code have been searching for a long time found it here finally<a href="http://www.iphone5mobile.blogpost.com/">iphone 5 specifications</a>
moloko_man
04/10/2011 5:22pm (2 years ago)

If you have hidden children pages, and you want to forward to them you will need to use:
$this->AllChildren()->First()->AbsoluteLink()
Nick Jacobs
06/11/2011 9:32pm (2 years ago)

Great tip!.... I'd do a test on this so that it only redirects if the current page has no content...something like this (not tested):

if(!$this->dbObject('Content')->hasValue()){
if($this->Children()->Count()){
Director::redirect($this->Children()->First()->AbsoluteLink());
}
}

}
Adil Aliyev
28/01/2012 9:47pm (1 year ago)

Useful in practice. Thanks.