Filter pages by a property using a custom SmartContent DataProvider

The smart_content content type allows for the configuration of a provider param, which is used for gathering the items that are passed to the twig template. As described in Smart content, Sulu comes with a few included providers and also allows to implement new ones to load custom entities.

In some cases, it might be useful to register an additional provider, which only returns pages including a property with a specific value. This is possible by registering a new instance of the PageDataProvider included in Sulu that uses a custom impementation of the QueryBuilder. In the following example a custom AuthorPageDataProvider is implemented, which filters the pages for a specific author:

1. Implement a custom QueryBuilder class that adds conditions

<?php
// src/SmartContent/AuthorPageQueryBuilder.php

namespace App\SmartContent;

use Sulu\Bundle\ContactBundle\Entity\ContactRepositoryInterface;
use Sulu\Component\Content\Compat\StructureManagerInterface;
use Sulu\Component\Content\Extension\ExtensionManagerInterface;
use Sulu\Component\Content\SmartContent\QueryBuilder;
use Sulu\Component\PHPCR\SessionManager\SessionManagerInterface;

class AuthorPageQueryBuilder extends QueryBuilder
{
    /**
     * @var ContactRepositoryInterface
     */
    private $contactRepository;

    public function __construct(
        StructureManagerInterface $structureManager,
        ExtensionManagerInterface $extensionManager,
        SessionManagerInterface $sessionManager,
        $languageNamespace,
        ContactRepositoryInterface $contactRepository
    )
    {
        parent::__construct($structureManager, $extensionManager, $sessionManager, $languageNamespace);

        $this->contactRepository = $contactRepository;
    }

    protected function buildWhere($webspaceKey, $locale)
    {
        // reuse existing functionality of the default QueryBuilder implementation
        $sql2Where = explode(' AND ', parent::buildWhere($webspaceKey, $locale));

        // Find authors by firstName and lastName
        $authors = $this->contactRepository->findBy(['firstName' => 'Adam', 'lastName' => 'Ministrator']);
        // Get the first author
        $author = reset($authors);

        // add custom condition to check the author of the page to the query
        $sql2Where[] = "(page.[i18n:" . $locale . "-author] = " . $author->getId() . ")";

        // optional: add custom condition to check the value of a specific property of the page to the query
        // $sql2Where[] = "(page.[i18n:" . $locale . "-propertyName] = 'propertyValue')";

        return implode(' AND ', $sql2Where);
    }
}

2. Register PageDataProvider service that uses custom QueryBuilder implementation

# config/services.yaml
services:
    app.smart_content.author_page_query_builder:
        class: App\SmartContent\AuthorPageQueryBuilder
        arguments:
            - '@sulu.content.structure_manager'
            - '@sulu_page.extension.manager'
            - '@sulu.phpcr.session'
            - '%sulu.content.language.namespace%'
            - '@sulu.repository.contact'

    app.smart_content.data_provider.author_pages:
        class: Sulu\Component\Content\SmartContent\PageDataProvider
        arguments:
            - '@app.smart_content.author_page_query_builder'
            - '@sulu.content.query_executor'
            - '@sulu_document_manager.document_manager'
            - '@sulu_page.smart_content.data_provider.content.proxy_factory'
            - '@sulu_document_manager.default_session'
            - '@sulu_page.reference_store.content'
            - '%sulu_document_manager.show_drafts%'
        tags:
            - { name: 'sulu.smart_content.data_provider', alias: 'author_pages' }

3. Use registered author_pages DataProvider in the template

<property name="authorPages" type="smart_content">
    <meta>
        <title lang="en">Author Pages</title>
    </meta>

    <params>
        <param name="provider" value="author_pages"/>
    </params>
</property>