PageListActionHook example module to hook into page list actions

PageListActionHook.module

<?php

/**
 * ProcessWire example demonstration module
 *
 * PageListActionHook autoload module once installed will remove "new" action from second level pages
 * using the template "basic-page"
 * 
 */

class PageListActionHook extends WireData implements Module, ConfigurableModule {

    /**
     * getModuleInfo is a module required by all modules to tell ProcessWire about them
     *
     * @return array
     *
     */
    public static function getModuleInfo() {

        return array(
            'title' => 'PageListActionHook',
            'version' => 1,
            'summary' => 'An example module on how to hook into Page List Actions.',
            'href' => 'http://www.processwire.com',
            'singular' => true,
            'autoload' => true,
            );
    }

    /**
     * Initialize the module
     *
     * ProcessWire calls this when the module is loaded. For 'autoload' modules, this will be called
     * when ProcessWire's API is ready. As a result, this is a good place to attach hooks.
     *
     */
    public function init() {
        
        // important here is to hook into ProcessPageListRender and not ProcessPageList
        $this->addHookAfter("ProcessPageListRender::getPageActions", $this, "hookPageActions");
        
    }


    public function hookPageActions($event) {
        // get the argument named
        $page = $event->arguments("page");
        
        // only for pages that use the basic-page template
        if($page->template == "basic-page") {

            // only allow 2 levels of basic-page
            // we count the parents of the current child
            if($page->parents->count() > 1){

                // catch the actions array returned by the hooked method
                // ProcessPageListRender::getPageActions
                $actions = $event->return;

                // find new action to remove it from array
                foreach($actions as $key => $action){
                    if($action['cn'] == 'New') {
                        // remove action from actions array
                        array_splice($actions, $key, 1);
                    }
                }

                // send back the modified $actions array back to the event object
                $event->return = $actions;
            }

        }
        
    }

}

FAB! Thanks for the code to learn from Soma, gonna try this ^_^