Collections

Stacey provides collections of related pages and assets which can be looped over from within the templates.

$root

Will list each top-level page within /content.

$children

Will list any child pages relative to the current page.

$parents

Will list the full ancestor tree relative to the current page.

$parent

Will list the direct ancestor relative to the current page.

$siblings

Will list any pages sitting at the same level as the current page. This collection will also include the current page.

$next_sibling

Constructs a reference to the next page sitting at the same level as the current page (in reverse-numerical order).

$previous_sibling

Constructs a reference to the previous page sitting at the same level as the current page (in reverse-numerical order).

Asset collections

$images
$video

Will output a list of all the images or video files associated with this page (ie. sitting in the same folder as the page’s .txt file). If there are no matching assets, these collections will be empty.

$html,
$swf,
$mp3,
$pdf,
etc.

Additionally, stacey will create a collection for any file type (other than .txt files) that it finds within the page’s folder.
Read more about asset types.