LinkMate plugin for Craft CMS

Let's hook you up, mate!

This is a link field for Craft CMS, forked from Sebastian Lenz' fabolous Typed Link Field (v1). It's made for Værsågod & friends - no support is given whatsoever. You should probably use the original instead.

Requirements

This plugin requires Craft CMS 4.0.0 or later.

Installation

To install the plugin, follow these instructions.

1. Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

    cd /path/to/project
   

2. Then tell Composer to load the plugin:

    composer require vaersaagod/linkmate
   

3. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for LinkMate.

Templating

Link fields on your models will return an instance of vaersaagod\linkmate\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>

API

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 vaersaagod\linkmate\LinkMate as LinkPlugin;
use vaersaagod\linkmate\events\LinkTypeEvent;
use vaersaagod\linkmate\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 vaersaagod\linkmate\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.