How to create a simple anchor link with Blade?

[nivv]

I've been eyeing the link tag (https://statamic.dev/tags/link). In my blueprint I've added the link field and linked it another collection item.

I'm trying to link to a section on the same page with an anchor link as in: <a href="#services">Services</a> where the anchor link is the slug of the linked entry.

This is what $block->fileData() prints:

array:10 [▼ // resources/views/blocks/HeroBlock.blade.php
  "id" => "b00a499b-10b4-4f7f-888e-744bcec18213"
  "blueprint" => "block"
  "title" => "NIce title"
  "template" => "blocks/HeroBlock"
  "updated_by" => 1
  "updated_at" => 1671270495
  "image" => array:2 [▶]
  "block_link" => "entry::43507de6-92d7-4e40-84fa-f278f3d9d5ff" <---- Linked entry here
  "test_image" => array:2 [▶]
  "content" => "Some text"
]

When I do {{ $block->link }} it prints nothing.

I'm probably missing something! Any ideas?

[nivv]

Closest I've come to a solution is this:

Statamic::tag('collection:blocks')->param('id:contains', $block->fileData()['block_link'])->fetch()

But that seems a bit convoluted, and if that is to work I have to remove the entries:: portion of the string to find the entry.

$block->fileData()['block_link'] outputs a string like below:

entry::43507de6-92d7-4e40-84fa-f278f3d9d5ff

[duncanmcclean]

I think you should be able to simply do $block->block_link which should resolve the link URL for you.

[nivv]

Thanks for your reply! I've tried that now and it does print entry::43507de6-92d7-4e40-84fa-f278f3d9d5ff, not an actual URL though.

<a href="{{ $block->block_link }}">Test</a>

Output:

<a href="entry::43507de6-92d7-4e40-84fa-f278f3d9d5ff">Test</a>

[duncanmcclean]

What is block_link? A link field type?

What is $block - an entry or something else?