One of three fields not displayed

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1

Dear community,

the website I work on currently includes a cute little news section with title, date and content, but only the first two are displayed.

YML

title: News
fields:
  news:
    type: structure
    label: News Items
    fields:
      date:
        type: date
        label: Date
      title:
        type: text
        label: Title
      content:
        type: textarea
        label: Content

PHP

<div class="news-section">
    <?php
    $newsPage = page('news');

    if ($newsPage && $newsPage->news()->isNotEmpty()) {
        $newsItems = $newsPage->news()->toStructure();
        ?>

        <div id="news-items-container">
        <p > +++ PUSH NEWS +++ </p>
        <br> </br>
            <?php foreach ($newsItems as $newsItem): ?>
                <div class="news-item">
                    <div class="news-header">
                        <span class="news-date"><?= $newsItem->date()->toDate('d M Y') ?></span>
                        <h3 class="news-title"><?= $newsItem->title() ?></h3>
                    </div>
                    <div class="news-content">
                      <p><?= $newsItem->content()->text()?></p>
                    </div>
                </div>
            <?php endforeach; ?>
        </div>
    <?php
    
    } else {
        echo '<p>No news available.</p>';
    }
    ?>
</div>

when debugging with
<?= var_dump($newsItem->content()) ?>

the news page loads

object(Kirby\Content\Content)#253 (3) { [“date”]=> string(10) “2025-01-01” [“title”]=> string(32) “Residency at Clay Club Den Bosch” [“content”]=> array(5) { [0]=> string(40) “To broaden my practice, I am diving into” [1]=> string(40) “the world of clay, and level my practice” [2]=> string(30) “up to new heights. The journey” [3]=> string(39) “continues. Looking forward to tell you,” [4]=> string(10) “more soon.” } }

I’ve tried several different methods to retrieve the content, such as using kt() , value() , and others, but the content field remains empty when displayed on the page, even though it contains text in the backend.

It got me stuck for a while now and I would appreciate your help a lot!

2

The problem is that content is a reserved name, i.e. there is a native method content on the StructureObject ($structureobject->content() | Kirby CMS).

You can either give your field another name, or call it via the content() object, instead of

<?= $newsItem->content()->text()?>

use

<?= $newsItem->content()->get('content') ?>

Also, there is no such thing as a text() field method, or is that some custom code? If not, what are you trying to achieve with calling text() on the content() field?

3

Thank you Sonja, its working now! super cool.
It didn’t function just like that but with some extra polishing it did, with help of GPT (noob alert)

 <div class="news-content">
                    <p>
                    <?php 
                    $content = $newsItem->content()->get('content');
                    if (is_array($content)) {
                        echo implode(' ', $content);
                    } else {
                        echo $content;
                    }
                    ?>
                </p>
                    </div>