Rendering a Markdown file

Kirby 4 Question❓
1

My Kirby is a bit rusty. I have a markdown file in a folder.

content
|
data
    |
    folder1
           |
           page.md

I am linking to page.md from my homepage. At the moment the plain text .md file simply displays. Ideally I want to offer a download link from the homepage as well as a nicely rendering representation for previewing/viewing.

Would I need to create a template called page.php and then read the file and pass it to kirbytext()?

As I said, it’s been a while.

2

This is just a .md file, not in kirby content file format with different fields? Usually, you would call field methods on the individual fields inside your .md/.txt file, for markdown formatted fields this would be ->kirbytext()

Maybe read the relevant sections of our guide to get to terms with the basics again.

3

This is indeed a plain Markdown file without Kirby relevant fields. They are automatically generated from website content in another system. I am simply building a viewing website if you will. So the markdown should be displayed as is without any Kirby fields if possible.

4

Found a solution:

	  <?php $mdpath = $page->url() . '/page.md'?>
	  <?php $markdown = f::read($mdpath) ?>
	  <?php echo kirbytext($markdown); ?>