How to link nodes though GDScript?

Zedespook

extends Control

export var card_name = "Card Name"
export (String, FILE, "*.png") var card_portrait = "res://Graphics/Animals/bakcsó.png"
export var card_synergies = ["NONE", ""]

# Called when the node enters the scene tree for the first time.
func _ready():
	# Setting name
	var node_name = get_node("Card/Name").text
	node_name = card_name
	# Setting portrait
	var node_texture = get_node("Card/Portrait").texture
	node_texture = card_portrait

I'm new to Godot and GDScript. I need help with my project. I'm making a card-game and I want to control the card's properties through code. I thought linking was getting the node's location and the desired property and setting it to a value. When I click play, nothing happens. Any ideas? Perhaps a better solution?

cybereality

When you are accessing properties of basic types, if you save them in a variable, you are basically making a copy of that property. For example, doing something like this does not make sense or do anything.

 var node_name = get_node("Card/Name").text
 node_name = card_name

When you do this, the variable "node_name" becomes a string, and on the second line you are overriding this temporary string to be some other string. The original node is unaffected.

You can instead do something like this:

var card_node = get_node("Card/Name")
card_node.text = card_name

Hope that helps.