Starts the element output.

• Walker::start_el()

$output string Required

Used to append additional content. Passed by reference.

$data_object WP_Post Required

Page data object.

$depth int Optional

Depth of page in reference to parent pages.
Used for padding. Default 0.

$args array Optional

Uses 'selected' argument for selected page to set selected HTML attribute for option element. Uses 'value_field' argument to fill "value" attribute.
See wp_dropdown_pages() .

More Arguments from wp_dropdown_pages( ... $args )

Array or string of arguments to retrieve pages.

• child_ofint
  Page ID to return child and grandchild pages of. Note: The value of $hierarchical has no bearing on whether $child_of returns hierarchical results. Default 0, or no restriction.
• sort_orderstring
  How to sort retrieved pages. Accepts 'ASC', 'DESC'. Default 'ASC'.
• sort_columnstring
  What columns to sort pages by, comma-separated. Accepts 'post_author', 'post_date', 'post_title', 'post_name', 'post_modified', 'menu_order', 'post_modified_gmt', 'post_parent', 'ID', 'rand', 'comment*count'.
  'post*' can be omitted for any values that start with it.
  Default 'post_title'.
• hierarchicalbool
  Whether to return pages hierarchically. If false in conjunction with $child_of also being false, both arguments will be disregarded.
  Default true.
• excludeint[]
  Array of page IDs to exclude.
• includeint[]
  Array of page IDs to include. Cannot be used with $child_of, $parent, $exclude, $meta_key, $meta_value, or $hierarchical.
  
• meta_keystring
  Only include pages with this meta key.
• meta_valuestring
  Only include pages with this meta value. Requires $meta_key.
  
• authorsstring
  A comma-separated list of author IDs.
• parentint
  Page ID to return direct children of. Default -1, or no restriction.
• exclude_treestring|int[]
  Comma-separated string or array of page IDs to exclude.
  
• numberint
  The number of pages to return. Default 0, or all pages.
• offsetint
  The number of pages to skip before returning. Requires $number.
  Default 0.
• post_typestring
  The post type to query. Default 'page'.
• post_statusstring|array
  A comma-separated list or array of post statuses to include.
  Default 'publish'.

Default: array()

$current_object_id int Optional

ID of the current page. Default 0.

File: wp-includes/class-walker-page-dropdown.php. View all references

public function start_el( &$output, $data_object, $depth = 0, $args = array(), $current_object_id = 0 ) {
	// Restores the more descriptive, specific name for use within this method.
	$page = $data_object;
	$pad  = str_repeat( ' ', $depth * 3 );

	if ( ! isset( $args['value_field'] ) || ! isset( $page->{$args['value_field']} ) ) {
		$args['value_field'] = 'ID';
	}

	$output .= "\t<option class=\"level-$depth\" value=\"" . esc_attr( $page->{$args['value_field']} ) . '"';
	if ( $page->ID == $args['selected'] ) {
		$output .= ' selected="selected"';
	}
	$output .= '>';

	$title = $page->post_title;
	if ( '' === $title ) {
		/* translators: %d: ID of a post. */
		$title = sprintf( __( '#%d (no title)' ), $page->ID );
	}

	/**
	 * Filters the page title when creating an HTML drop-down list of pages.
	 *
	 * @since 3.1.0
	 *
	 * @param string  $title Page title.
	 * @param WP_Post $page  Page data object.
	 */
	$title = apply_filters( 'list_pages', $title, $page );

	$output .= $pad . esc_html( $title );
	$output .= "</option>\n";
}