Making A Poetry Blog

As you may have noticed, I have added a poetry section to my website :)

This has been a work-in-progress for quite a while now and I had to think if I wanted to publish the poems, plus the implementation in Kirby took me a while to figure out.

I wanted it so that when you open the poems page, it brings you to the first poem, but I ended up just going for a random poem (I may change that in the future, we'll see). I remembered I used routes before for the RSS feed so my idea was to implement a redirect to a random poem whenever you visit /poems.

The code looks like this:

       [
            "pattern" => "poems",
            "action" => function () {
                // Fetch all listed poems under the poetry page
                $poems = site()->find("poems")->children()->listed();

                // If no poems are found, return a 404 page
                if ($poems->isEmpty()) {
                    return go("error");
                }

                // Select a random poem
                $randomPoem = $poems->shuffle()->first();

                // Redirect to the random poem's URL
                return go($randomPoem->url());
            },
        ],

And that's pretty much it for the technical implementation.

As for my poems, I consider them to be quite mediocre, but I've had some people like them a lot. So you may like them. Go read one!

This was Day 7 of #100DaysToOffload (one week milestone 🎊🎉)