Newbie snippet question

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Hi all -

Please bare with me, but I’m trying to get my first Kirby site running and am hitting what is probably a simple issue.

I’ve used the ‘starter kit’ and am trying to create a ‘Case Studies’ category and page. I’ve managed to do it, but I can’t loop any subpages on the case study template landing page.

I’ve used the the ‘showcase.php’ snippet that came with starter kit, but have changed it to be:

<?php

$casestudies = page('casestudies')->children()->visible();

if(isset($limit)) $casestudies = $casestudies->limit($limit);

?>

<ul class="showcase grid gutter-1">

  <?php foreach($casestudies as $casestudy): ?>

    <li class="showcase-item column">
        <a href="<?= $casestudy->url() ?>" class="showcase-link">
          <?php if($image = $casestudy->images()->sortBy('sort', 'asc')->first()): $thumb = $image->crop(600, 600); ?>
            <img src="<?= $thumb->url() ?>" alt="Thumbnail for <?= $casestudy->title()->html() ?>" class="showcase-image" />
          <?php endif ?>
          <div class="showcase-caption">
            <h3 class="showcase-title"><?= $casestudy->title()->html() ?></h3>
          </div>
        </a>
    </li>

  <?php endforeach ?>

</ul>

But nothing is showing. Please note that I’ve also removed dashes in ‘case-study’ in case that was causing an issue, and have tried using it as all one word.

What exactly are the $casestudy and $casetudies variables in the snippet referencing? If I need to paste any other code or show folder structure please let me know.

Thanks for you patience!

2

What is the name of the page folder? Is it called “casestudies” or “case-studies” or “CaseStudies”? Are the children visible?

$casestudies is the collection you define with $casestudies = page('casestudies')->children()->visible();

$casestudy is a new variable that you assign as a references to a single item of the collection within the foreach loop.

3

They weren’t visible! What a muppet! Thanks so much :slight_smile: