HTMLAREA - URL formatting

[ozetrade]

I have a fresh install of Zencart 1.38a installed and preparing to build a new website. I decided to check if an issue I was having with previous versions of Zenart had been resolve.

The issue being that even if I input a Link URL as
index.php?main_page=contact_us
it is formatted as.....
http://127.0.0.1/demo/admin/index.ph...age=contact_us

I need to modify the way that HTMLAREA handles the URL's I input so it maintains it the way I input it I.E.

if I input index.php?main_page=contact_us, it is formatted in html as:
<a href="index.php?main_page=contact_us">Contact Us</a>

It appears in this format during editing, but once saved, it appends the local URL.

Can anyone advise what changes I need to make to resolve this issue.

Thanks.

[yellow1912]

I have a fresh install of Zencart 1.38a installed and preparing to build a new website. I decided to check if an issue I was having with previous versions of Zenart had been resolve.

The issue being that even if I input a Link URL as
index.php?main_page=contact_us
it is formatted as.....
http://127.0.0.1/demo/admin/index.ph...age=contact_us

I need to modify the way that HTMLAREA handles the URL's I input so it maintains it the way I input it I.E.

if I input index.php?main_page=contact_us, it is formatted in html as:
<a href="index.php?main_page=contact_us">Contact Us</a>

It appears in this format during editing, but once saved, it appends the local URL.

Can anyone advise what changes I need to make to resolve this issue.

Thanks.

What you are seeing is not a bug and doesnt cause any problem at all. I assume you are working on your localhost? Did you try to upload that on to your online server?

When you use "relative path" the browsers automatically prepend the current host name to the links.

[ozetrade]

Thank you yellow1912 for your response.

I understand that this is a default action of the add link function, but it is a frustrating one for me because I do all my development locally, then upload to a server.
That means I have to edit every link created using HTMLAREA and change it to match the server URL that Zencart has been loaded on. This issue is also experienced when changing domain names.

On the old zencart website there was a HTMLAREA v3 that you could download and install that overcome this issue - there is a HTMLAREA v3 available in the older contributions section, but it is not the copy that solve this problem.

Therefore I need to modify the code that forms the URL so that the inputted URL is the output regardless if it is "relative path" or full path. Can anyone help??

Thanks,

[yellow1912]

You can try using one of the wysiwyg modules available such as tinymce and see if that helps (htmleditor is rather old). Normally I code the define page directly via html code so I dont have problem with messy code generated by these editors.