Can not output data from structure field to template

Kirby 3 Solved ✅
1

Hi all.

I tried to set up a structure field in order to display some links in my footer.

my blueprint looks like this

my_links:
  label: My Links
  type: structure
  fields:
    title:
      label: Title
      type: text
      required: true
    url:
      label: URL
      type: url
      required: true

my corresponding template code is derived from the example in the structure field documentation

<?php $my_links = $page->my_links()->toStructure() ?>
<?php if ($my_links->count()): ?>
  <ul>
    <?php foreach ($my_links as $link): ?>
      <li><a href="<?= $link->url() ?>"><?= $link->title() ?></a></li>
    <?php endforeach ?>
  </ul>
<?php else: ?>
  <p>No links found.</p>
<?php endif ?>

I only get “no links found” although i put some up in my panel. It gets svaed like this:

My-links:

- 
  title: neeeew
  url: https://example.com

I can’t find where I went wrong? Anybody can point me in the right direction?

2

In the footer, $page refers to the current page, don’t know where you have this field, but you need to refer to that particular page.

3

that was what I thought it would do because the footer is (as snippet) part of that current page. now that i changed it to “site” it works. Thank you!

4

but now as I’m advancing from the simpler example I’ve now added a toggle which lets me decide wheter I use an external link with url or i choose one of my own kirby pages to be linked to.
works in concept but now kirby throws a weird error from its guts when I simply want to link to a page. my template goes like this:

<ul>
	<?php foreach ($site->footer_links()->toStructure() as $link): ?>
		<?php if ($link->show_external_link()->toBool()): ?>
			<li><a href="<?= $link->url()->html() ?>" target="_blank"><?= $link->text()->html() ?></a></li>
		<?php else: ?>
			<li><a href="<?= $link->page()->url() ?>"><?= $link->text()->html() ?></a></li>
		<?php endif ?>
	<?php endforeach ?>
</ul>

on this portion it breaks

<li><a href="<?= $link->page()->url() ?>"><?= $link->text()->html() ?></a></li>
5

$link->page() returns a field object which doesn’t have a url method. See docs how to render a page from a pages field: Pages | Kirby CMS