This plugin adds a new link field type to the Craft CMS. The link field allows content editors to choose from a list of link types and offers individual input fields for each of them.
This plugin requires Craft CMS 3.0.0-RC1 or later.
To install the plugin, follow these instructions.
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Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:
cd /path/to/project
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Then tell Composer to load the plugin:
composer require sebastianlenz/linkfield
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In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for Link Field.
Link fields on your models will return an instance of typedlinkfield\models\Link
. Rendering a link
field directly within a template will return the url the field is pointing to.
<a href="{{ item.myLinkField }}">Link</a>
You can use the following accessors to get the different properties of the link:
{{ item.myLinkField.getElement() }}
{{ item.myLinkField.getLinkAttributes() }}
{{ item.myLinkField.getTarget() }}
{{ item.myLinkField.getText() }}
{{ item.myLinkField.getUrl() }}
{{ item.myLinkField.hasElement() }}
{{ item.myLinkField.isEmpty() }}
{{ item.myLinkField.getCustomText() }}
Use the getLink
utility function to render a full html link:
{{ item.myLinkField.getLink() }}
You can pass the desired content of the link as a string, e.g.
{{ entry.linkField.getLink('Imprint') }}
You may also pass an array of attributes. When doing this you can override
the default attributes href
and target
. The special attribute text
will be used as the link content.
{{ entry.linkField.getLink({
class: 'my-link-class',
target: '_blank',
text: 'Imprint',
}) }}
You can also compose your own markup quickly by simply consuming the link
attributes exposed by getLinkAttributes
on the link model. This method accepts
an additional parameter allowing you to inject additional attributes as an
associative array.
<a {{ entry.linkField.getLinkAttributes() }}>
<span>Custom markup</span>
</a>
You can register additional link types by listening to the EVENT_REGISTER_LINK_TYPES
event of the plugin. If you just want to add another element type, you can do it like this in
your module:
use craft\commerce\elements\Product;
use typedlinkfield\Plugin as LinkPlugin;
use typedlinkfield\events\LinkTypeEvent;
use typedlinkfield\models\ElementLinkType;
use yii\base\Event;
/**
* Custom module class.
*/
class Module extends \yii\base\Module
{
public function init() {
parent::init();
Event::on(
LinkPlugin::class,
LinkPlugin::EVENT_REGISTER_LINK_TYPES,
function(LinkTypeEvent $event) {
$event->linkTypes['product'] = new ElementLinkType(Product::class);
}
);
}
}
Each link type must have an unique name and a definition object implementing typedlinkfield\modles\LinkTypeInterface
.
Take a look at the bundled link types ElementLinkType
and InputLinkType
to get an idea of how to write your own
link type definitions.
If wish to migrate a field created using "Fruit Link It", please follow the discussion and directions here: