Page() helper for virtual pages?

Kirby 3 Solved ✅
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I have translated urls in my multi language site. How do I link to an specific page in the front end in the current language?

the link is across site so I can’t use $page->url(). I tried page('registro')->url('es') using the id, ui, translated url. I get Call to a member function url() on null.

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Did you try like that: $page->url('es');

Or you can use with default language id:

page('register')->url('es');
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I did try page('register')->url('es'); with the translated url/slug for both languages. $page->url('es'); works has spected but I want to use the link in other templates so it would not do the work.

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It seems it does not work because it’s a virtual page. <?= page('otherid')->url($kirby->languageCode()) ?> works with other pages but not with this one, which is a virtual one. Is this a bug?

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You may be right.

@texnixe How do we access virtual pages? page('virtual_id') is not working :thinking:

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Even with the same slug the page() helper doesn’t work. If you dump() the parent, you won’t see the virtual page listed has a child. So I guess it doesn’t work because they are virtual, but then how can we access it in a similar way to page()? :thinking:

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How did you define the virtual page? Virtual pages only defined in a route don’t act like real pages.

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Only on route, following this guide for simple virtual page.

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Then you can’t use the page helper, but have to call the URL manually.

$site->url($languageCode) . '/registration'
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You might want to look into using the pages extension and register the page like explained here: https://getkirby.com/docs/reference/plugins/extensions/pages

If you do it like that, the page becomes a part of the site and acts like a normal page.

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I think I’ll use pages that physically exist in the file system for now then and try that later. thanks!