problems with links in the body of articles

Thursday 09 September 2004 9:02:17 am

What do your URLs look like when links bounce back to your site? Note that your link-href has to be a fully qualified URL ( a thing consisting of protocol://subdomain.hostname.domain/path_to_content) in order to work as external resource request. So regardless of the url-operator you use (be it ezurl or ezroot), your links will always bounce back if they are not fully qualified, relative links. Ezurl and ezroot will both prepend the <protocol>://<subdomain>.<hostname>.<domain>/ string of your own site to relative urls. So when it comes to create links to external resources, ezurl and ezroot are not useful at all.

BTW: I recommend that you avoid using ezroot. I used it for months, according to some older docpages around. However, ezroot soon turned out to be a pain in the ass. With ezroot working only in VH-setups, you always have to provide two templates for everything, one for use with VH-setup, and another one for use with NVH-setup. That's most probably not what you want. The ez-crew has already taken appropriate steps to replace ezroot with a much smarter universal ezurl-operator in ezp 3.3. Note that ezurl works quite fine in VH-setups AND in NVH-setups. Before it decides which kind of URL to create, ezurl looks if there is sort-of an 'index.php' somewhere in your $REQUEST_URI. If not, ezurl does not put it there any more, thereby leaving all your nice VH-urls untouched. In my opinion, ezroot is clearly a deprecated operator. I guess, that the only reason why ezroot has not been withdrawn from standard-ezp so far is, that it provides a handsome method to make the template engine create some links which do not call index.php (e.g links to resources like images) in a NVH-setup, while ezurl is used for all other links in NVH.

Saturday 11 September 2004 4:31:15 am

my links are full qualified URLs (eg. http://www.ryanair.com/) and all worked fine before I changed from ezurl to ezroot. having gone back and looked at what I changed before, I think the problem is the design/standard/templates/content/datatypes/view/ezxmltags/link.tpl template. I followed the instructions that I found on this page:

http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/customization/tips_tricks/creating_nice_urls

which say to change from

<a href={$href|ezurl} {section show=$target}target="{$target}"{/section}>{$content}</a>

to

<a href={$href|ezroot} {section show=$target}target="{$target}"{/section}>{$content}</a>

in link.tpl. this does remove the index.php part, which is what I wanted to do, but it then means that all my external URLs are changed to my home page (http://www.stravaiging.com/a/) while the internal links all work fine. changing the code above back again means that the external links work (but don't open in a new window even though that's what they're supposed to do) and the internal links have index.php in them again, which I don't want.

any help on how to solve this problem would be greatly appreciated, as at the moment I am quite stuck!

Cheers
Andy

Monday 13 September 2004 10:39:11 am

Hi,

This *almost* works for me, but my eZpublish files are all in a folder "a" (http://www.stravaiging.com/a/) and the solution you have suggested desn't include my "a" in them.

so instead of the links being generated as eg http://www.stravaiging.com/a/arrivals/train they are coming out as http://www.stravaiging.com/arrivals/train which is wrong. can you think of a way around this?

if not, it doesn't matter, as I found that if I change the line in ezxmltags/link.tpl back to ezurl, and keep all the others as ezroot in other templates, then all I need to do is include a full link in my articles (ie link href='http://www.stravaiging.com/arrivals/train' instead of link href='/arrivals/train') and everything works fine and index.php never appears

Cheers
Andy

Friday 24 December 2004 12:00:00 pm

One last change ... I set it to search for ":" instead of "://" so that "mailto:" links are also fixed.