Publish Items to Web and Edge with PSE script

Hi there!

I decided to create a short article since I recently spent some time on a simple task, such as publishing items in Sitecore using Powershell Scripts.

It is supposed to be simple - read the documentation and write a couple of lines to do the job but since we are using both Web and Edge I had some issues with the last one.

Here is the code that works (Sitecore 10.3, Sitecore PowerShell Extensions 6.4.0.25771), hope it will save someone's time:

function PublishItems($itemsToPublish)
{
    Write-Host "PublishItems: Count: $($itemsToPublish.Count )" -ForegroundColor Blue

    Write-Host "Publish to Web..." -ForegroundColor Yellow
    foreach ($item in $itemsToPublish)
    {
        Write-Host "Publish item: ID:" $item.ID "  Path: " $item.Path
        Publish-Item -Item $item.ItemRef -PublishMode Smart -Target "web" -Language $item.ItemRef.languages
    }

    Write-Host "Publish to Edge..." -ForegroundColor Yellow
    $db = Get-Database "experienceedge"
    foreach ($item in $itemsToPublish)
    {
        Write-Host "Publish item: ID:" $item.ID "  Path: " $item.Path
        #throws an error:
        #Publish-Item -Item $item.ItemRef -PublishMode Smart -Target "experienceedge" -Language $item.ItemRef.languages

        #works fine:
        [Sitecore.Publishing.PublishManager]::PublishItem($item.ItemRef, $db, $item.ItemRef.languages, $false, $false, $false)
    }
}        

as you've noticed publishing to Edge is different since it throws some error if I try the same approach for Web.

In case you're interested in details here is a bug registered on git: https://github.com/SitecorePowerShell/Console/issues/1314, it stands that it is fixed, so maybe you are the lucky one with the fix ;)