Hyperlink

Hyperlink is a Statamic addon for a turbo-charged link field that stores link text and target options alongside the destination, supports multiple links in a single field, and lets you set up reusable config-driven field settings.

Hyperlink is great for CTAs, callouts, and hero buttons, and has everything you need for a smooth author and developer experience:

• Multiple links in a single field to you simplify your blueprints and avoid needing a replicator or separate field to store more than one link
• Link to everything including entries, URLs, email addresses, assets, taxonomy terms, and phone numbers
• Multi-site support for localizing links
• Flexible templating options for both Antlers and Blade
• Reusable field configurations across blueprints using config-driven Profiles

Get Started

• Installation
• Upgrade Guide
• Configuration
  • Profiles
  • Profile options
  • Field-specific settings
• Templating
  • Antlers
  • Blade
  • Available data
• Validation
• Schema
• Licensing

Installation

You can find and install Hyperlink from the Statamic control panel under Tools → Addons, or install from your project root using Composer.

composer require bencarr/statamic-hyperlink

Upgrade Guide

You can upgrade from version 1.x or 2.x to 3.x by re-requiring the package with a new version string:

composer require bencarr/statamic-hyperlink:^3.0

That’s it! There’s no immediate changes needed to your content or templates after simply installing v3.

Updating a Field to Support Multiple Links

If you'd like to take advantage of multiple links on an existing Hyperlink field, you can update your field configuration to set the "Minimum Number of Links" and "Max Number of Links" options accordingly.

If you're using a Profile for your field configuration, you can adjust the min_items and max_items keys in your profile’s configuration array.

Once you've updated a field to support multiple links, your templates will need to be updated to account for receiving an array of hyperlinks instead of a single hyperlink. Check out the Templating section for examples.

Configuration

Add a Hyperlink field to your blueprint by selecting it from the “Relationship” or “Special” groups.

Profiles

Profiles let you re-use Hyperlink configurations across multiple blueprints. You can set up profiles in a config file, then select which profile each field should use. Future changes can be made in the profile configuration without needing to update each field’s settings.

Customizing the default profile

Start customizing profiles by publishing the hyperlink-config tag.

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=hyperlink-config

You can find the published configuration in config/statamic/hyperlink.php.

Adding additional profiles

Make additional profiles available by adding new keys to the profiles array.

<?php
return [
    'profiles' => [
        'default' => [
            // ...
        ],
        'hero' => [
            // ...
        ],
    ],
];

Profile options

Each profile can be customized using the following options.

Pro Tip — You can also re-order the link type dropdown by adjusting the order of the types array in your profile. For example, to make the “Asset” option appear first, set the types property to ['asset', 'entry', 'url', 'email', 'term', 'tel'].

Field-specific settings

To bypass profiles and use a one-off configuration for a particular field, select the “Custom” profile in the field settings pane, which surfaces the same profile configuration options in the UI and saves the settings to the blueprint itself.

FYI — When using the “Custom” profile, enabled link types cannot be reordered.

Templating

Hyperlink works great with both Antlers and Blade, and has built-in conveniences to give you full control over your template markup.

Antlers

In your Antlers templates, reference the field value like any other field to return a plain hyperlink with all the necessary info. For example, if your field handle was cta:

{{ cta }}
 
<!-- Output -->
<a href="https://statamic.com">Rad Button Text</a>

Note — The target attribute will be added automatically when the “New window?” toggle is checked.

For maximum flexibility, you can access any of the available data from the Hyperlink field:

<a href="{{ cta.url }}" target="{{ cta.target }}" class="button">
    {{ svg src="{cta.type}" }}
    {{ cta.text }}
</a>

If your field configuration supports multiple links, treat the field value like a collection. For example, if your field handle was buttons:

{{ buttons }}
    <a href="{{ url }}" target="{{ target }}">{{ text }}</a>
{{ /buttons }}

Blade

In your Blade templates, reference the field value like any other field to return a plain hyperlink with all the necessary info. For example, if your field handle was cta:

{{ $page->cta }}
 
<!-- Output -->
<a href="https://statamic.com">Rad Button Text</a>

Note — The target attribute will be added automatically when the “New window?” toggle is checked.

For simple markup modifications like adding a class or an attribute, you can chain class and attributes methods similar to Blade component attributes:

{{ $page->cta->class('button')->attributes(['x-on:click' => 'doSomething' ]) }}
 
<!-- Output -->
<a href="https://statamic.com" class="button" x-on:click="doSomething">Rad Button Text</a>

For maximum flexibility, you can access any of the available data from the Hyperlink field:

<a href="{{ $page->cta->url }}" target="{{ $page->cta->target }}" class="button">
    @svg($page->cta->type)
    {{ $page->cta->text }}
</a>

If your field configuration supports multiple links, treat the field value like a collection. For example, if your field handle was buttons:

@foreach($page->buttons as $button)
    <a href="{{ $button->url }}" target="{{ $button->target }}">{{ $button->text }}</a>
@endforeach

Available data

The field value of a Hyperlink field is a HyperlinkData object, which works just like an array in your templates. Inside you’ve got access to everything you’ll need to completely customize your presentation:

Note — When linking to a Term, Hyperlink will generate a URL to the global term view. If you’d like to link to the term in a specific collection, you’ll need to use the term property to generate that collection-specific URL in your templates.

Default Text Values

When no custom text is provided, Hyperlink will use a sensible default based on the selected link type.

Validation

In general, Hyperlink fields require only a link value. Link text is optional, and will use a default value based on the link type if no custom text is provided (see Default Text Values above for more information). If the Hyperlink field is optional in the Blueprint, a “None” option is added to the available link types for authors to explicitly leave the field blank (and it’s the default for new entries).

Type-Specific Validation

Some link types are also validated conditionally:

• URL — Uses Laravel’s url validation rule unless the value begins with #, ., or / (so anchors like #contact and relative paths like ./sub-page work just fine)
• Email — Uses Laravel’s email validation rule
• Phone — Uses Laravel’s regex validation rule with the broad pattern /[\d,.+\-()]/, which aims to prevent big errors, but accommodate the variety of formats allowed in tel: links

Schema

Hyperlink data is stored as a simple YAML structure. For example, if your field handle ws cta:

---
title: My Entry
cta:
  type: url
  link: 'https://statamic.com'
  text: 'Rad Button Text'
  newWindow: false
---

Entry, Asset, and Term links are stored using an ID reference, so links stay up-to-date event if the related item’s URL changes:

---
title: My Entry
cta:
  type: entry
  link: 'entry::AAA111B2-3333-4444-C555-D6E7FGH8I910'
  text: 'Rad Entry Link'
  newWindow: false
---

If your field configuration supports multiple links, the YAML structure will be an array. For example, if your field handle was buttons:

---
title: My Entry
buttons:
  -
    type: entry
    link: 'entry::AAA111B2-3333-4444-C555-D6E7FGH8I910'
    text: 'Rad Entry Link'
    newWindow: false
  -
    type: url
    link: 'https://statamic.com'
    text: 'Even More Rad Link'
    newWindow: true
---

Licensing

Hyperlink is a Commercial Addon.

You can use it for free while in development, but requires a license to use on a live site. Learn more or buy a license on The Statamic Marketplace!