How to link to homepage

[Mark_E]

I guess writing

<img src="/assets/images/logo.svg" alt="some text">

will not work if I put my Kirby site on a sub-folder of my live website. And that there is a Kirby way of doing this which will ensure the image displays wherever the website is.

So I’ve tried doing this, but get a PHP error:

<?= image('assets/images/logo.svg')->url() ?>

I’m guessing, because the logo file is outside of the Kirby Content folder - it is in the assets folder - it can’t find the url of the image, nor does the file have alt text.

So I’ve tried the following:

<img src="<?= url('/assets/images/logo.svg') ?>" alt="name of business">

This works. I’ve read other ways of doing this, but I don’t understand them. Can I just use the above?

How do you use asset urls?

When having images as assets I usually load them like this: <img src="<?php echo u() . '/assets/images/image.png'; ?>"> An alternative would be this, but it’s longer: <img src="<?php echo kirby()->urls()->assets() . '/images/image.png'; ?>"> Today I learned from this post that it’s also possible to create an object and use that instead. It’s longer but it’s possible to do things like resize and crop the asset image. <?php $image = new Asset('assets/images/image.png'); ?> <img src="<?php ech…