I’m using the page helper to link to pages:
<a href="<?= page('example-page')->url() ?>">
I understand the page helper ‘finds’ the page with the id ‘example-page’ and then will make an absolute link from it.
But where or how do I give my ‘example-page’ an id? Are these set automatically? A page id seems to be the same as the page name?
Since upgrading to the latest version of Kirby I can see that my page .txt files have all been given a Uuid. But I can’t see in my page .txt files an id. Yet the above page helper works.
No, not exactly. For a first level page, the id is equal to the slug/folder name, but for pages further down the tree, it’s the path to this page,
content/
blog/
article-one/
Get the blog page
page('blog')
Get the article
page('blog/article-one')
So if ‘article-one’ was moved to:
content/
article-one/
blog/
Then the ID of the page changes to ‘article-one’?
So the ID is not a unique identifying name for a page - it changes depending on where the page is in the structure?
So for the page helper to work I need to tell it where the page is in the structure (which folder it is in)?
If I use the new Uuid unique identifying code, to link to a page using the page helper, do I need to know where the page is in the structure (what folders it is in), or will Kirby simply find the page and create the link for me?