Blade Navigation - Getting Entry Relationship in Standard Nav Item

[jonathan-bird]

Hi all 👋

I'm building out a nav using blade and I've got it all working no dramas, but then I figured I wanted the client to simply set the Entry relationship to the page (eg Home, Contact etc) rather than manually set the navigation URL which seemed like a waste of time and double ups, but the data just doesn't look right to me, and I can't get the URL, Slug or anything.

Note that I don't want to use the "Link to entry" because you can't set additional fields with them. So I use the standard nav item, with an additional "entry" field type relationship.

My nav loop (returns array of items):
@foreach (Statamic::tag('nav:desktop_menu')->sort('order')->fetch() as $key => $item)

Then to get the entry:
$item['entry'] is Statamic\Fields\Value

Returns:

Statamic\Fields\Value {#3327 ▼ // resources/views/components/header.blade.php
  #raw: null
  #handle: "entry"
  #fieldtype: Statamic\Fieldtypes\Entries {#3328 ▶}
  #augmentable: Statamic\Structures\Page {[#2939 ▶]
  #shallow: false
}

So I call $item['entry']->augmentable() which gets me theStatamic\Structures\Page instance, but in that is really nothing useful from the page. I just can't work out why I can't get the Slug or URL from the page. Really I just want the Statamic\Entries\Entry relationship instance.

An example return from a basic 'Contact' page where the url is http://example.com/contact and slug is contact

Statamic\Structures\Page {#2939 ▼ // resources/views/components/header.blade.php
  #tree: Statamic\Structures\NavTree {#2937 ▶}
  #reference: null
  #route: null
  #parent: null
  #children: []
  #isRoot: false
  #id: "62861dbd-e592-4836-8b32-709a54e56643"
  #url: null
  #title: "Contact"
  #depth: 1
  #data: array:2 [▼
    "entry" => "357a87aa-25dd-4328-bb60-5aa3deb9db6b"
    "top_level_button" => true
  ]
  #supplements: Illuminate\Support\Collection {#2940 ▼
    #items: []
    #escapeWhenCastingToString: false
  }
  #selectedQueryColumns: []
}

So when you look at the above, the id is actually the ID of the menu item, not the entry relationship. The data entry value of 357a87aa-25dd-4328-bb60-5aa3deb9db6b is the entry ID that I'm wanting to get the entry of.

I just want to get that entry relationship.

Am I missing something really simple?

[jonathan-bird]

I worked out that I can use the get_content tag with from parameter to get the relationship. I really shouldn't have to though.

Statamic::tag('get_content')
    ->param('from', $item['entry']->augmentable()->get('entry')) // UUID of entry
    ->fetch()

And ended up with something like:

@php
    $relationship = Statamic::tag('get_content')
        ->param('from', $item['entry']->augmentable()->get('entry'))
        ->fetch()
        ->first();

    $url = $relationship instanceof \Statamic\Entries\Entry ? $relationship->url() : $item['url'];
@endphp

Hate this though cause you're doing N+1 on each navigation item. And you have to re-do this code for any sub items with relationships.

Again, I've got to be missing something here. Why aren't relationships eager loaded in Nav? There's entry relationship field type so they should.

[jonathan-bird]

I think I might be on to something here after reading through the core code... if I change the default relationship field slug from "entry" to anything else, then I can access it like $item['fieldName'] to get back Statamic\Entries\Entry.

[jonathan-bird]

Yep confirmed that was the issue. FML.

Can someone at Statamic please set entry as an illegal field handle for nav items when editing the blueprint. 😭