I’m using a plugin to programatically do things, including updating a page. The relevant operation to this questions is to fetch a file from a remote location via cURL, save it to the page content folder using F::write and then update the page with $page->update(), and then reload the page. $respo…

Edit: disregard this comment. It’s something else.

Additionally, a files field expects data as an array, not a string Also, at this point Kirby doesn’t know that this file exist yet as it is not in the inventory, so it won’t be stored. You have to add it to the inventory first.

About how “adding to inventory” works I don’t know, all those methods seem to be protected. But it might be easier to pretend the file is an “upload”. $response = curl_exec($curl); curl_close($curl); // I'm changing the $file variable here, // you might want to do this in a more appropriate locat…

Thank you. That worked a charm! :pray:

$page->update() not working correctly for files fields

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Yes, right, like here: Save external image from url in kirby 3 - #3 by squareclouds

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$page->update() not working correctly for files fields

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