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MODx: TinyMCE relative URL hack

Published by John Roa on January 25, 2010 under MODx, Programming

MODx version: Revolution 2.0.0-beta-5 rev6224
TinyMCE: 3.2.7.0

There is a current bug that I have seen a lot of activity about in the forums regarding TinyMCE and relative paths, specifically when inserting images. Essentially, even though the path inside the image selector in TinyMCE says “/assets/images/xyz.jpg”, it changes it to “../../assets/images/xyz.jpg” upon inserting.

While this isn’t a very graceful fix, it is a noted bug, so hopefully this gets everyone through to the official patch:

  1. Navigate to /core/components/tinymce/tinymce.class.php
  2. Scroll down to line 134, and you will find:
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            /* Set relative URL options */
        switch ($this->config['path_options']) {
            case 'rootrelative':
                $this->config['relative_urls'] = false;
                $this->config['remove_script_host'] = true;
            break;
 
            case 'docrelative':
                $this->config['relative_urls'] = true;
                $this->config['document_base_url'] = $this->config['assets_url'];
                $this->config['remove_script_host'] = true;
            break;
 
            case 'fullpathurl':
                $this->config['relative_urls'] = false;
                $this->config['remove_script_host'] = false;
            break;
        }
  3. This is looking for a system configuration variable called “path_options”. Who would think to change that, and what to change it to? Rather than making a square peg fit in a round hole, I preferred to just comment that whole statement out and replace it with:
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            $this->config['convert_urls'] = false;
  4. TinyMCE will now stop converting /assets to ../../assets or whatever other craziness it was doing. A prickly but easy workaround until it is officially fixed.

Enjoy,

John

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