How to pass php variables to pages (not to the templates)

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Hi there,
this is probably an easy question, but I can’t get the answer:

I understand that you can use <?php somephpcode ?> on the template level.
But how do I get infomation, normally easily accessed via php to the page level?

To clarify, I mean by pages, what you would write in Markdown.

In my speciffic case, I want to use icons, stored in mysite.com/assets/images/myicondir/
I don’t want to hardcode the path to the dir.

I also tried to use relative path to an icon directory as a sub directory of the page. That does not seem to work as the url is modified by apache/htaccess

Thanks for your help in advance.

2

You can link to an image in your markdown fields like this:

(image: /assets/images/icons/logo.svg)

The link to the image is then automatically converted to an absolute url.

3

And if you need a more flexible or custom solution, you can extend Kirbytext with your own Kirbytags and filters, which will basically run your custom PHP code on the Markdown content.

4

thanks lukasbestle and texnixe,
here is the result: http://hydrosight.de/de/company

with the following page text:

`


(image: /assets/images/grundsaetze-icons/green_power.svg)
Hydrosight nutzt Grünen Strom: Fertigung, Büro und Server werden größtenteils aus erneuerbaren Energien bedient.
`

it is a bit unusual mixing markdown and html, but not using php. once you get used to it it makes sense.

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It’s no problem to use HTML in your markdown. Having said that, you would be more flexible with a structure field for that purpose and would also separate content from display that way.