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I want to put Next and Previous buttons to allow the user to navigate through sibling pages (all pages under the same parent).

1. How would I dynamically find the previous and next sibling pages (specifically the links to them)?

2. How would I test for the first and last items (e.g. no previous sibling, or no next sibling)?

Thanks for any help on this!
webinstinct
 
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Have you tried the "Next and Previous Nav" block? It's about half way down in the "Add Block" dialogue.

The code for that block may be a great reference if its not what you are looking for.
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webinstinct
Thanks Paul. I found exactly that and it worked perfectly. I had not noticed=
that new block in the recent release but it was just what I needed. Thanks s=
o much for the follow up!



On Jan 14, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Concrete5 Community <discussions@concretecms.co=
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TimDix
Late reply, but I needed to get the same information, here's my solution (based off next_previous block as recommended above). I don't actually render the block, but this gives me references to the prev/next pages.

$bt_main = BlockType::getByHandle('next_previous');
$bt_main->controller->loopSequence = true;
$prev = $bt_main->controller->getPreviousCollection();
$next = $bt_main->controller->getNextCollection();