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  • MrFlo 159 posts 403 karma points
    Apr 27, 2010 @ 01:47
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    Get absolute URL on href src for newsletter template

    Hello

    I have made a newsletter template. I use the generated html from umbraco and then I copy/pasted it to a newsletter software.

    I am looking for a way to transform on the fly all relatives urls (in freetext editor) to an absolute one (with http://www...)

     

    It's possible to override the render and execute some RegEx or replace like this but it removes the nice url transformation.

    <script  runat="server">

           protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)

            {

               System.Text.StringBuilder htmlString = new StringBuilder(); // this will hold the string

               System.IO.StringWriter stringWriter = new System.IO.StringWriter(htmlString);

               System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter htmlWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWriter);

               base.Render(htmlWriter);

               htmlWriter.Flush();

               writer.Write(ReplaceUrl(stringWriter.ToString()));

            }

     

            private string ReplaceUrl(string p)

            {

                string url = "http://www.gondwana-dmcs.net";

                p = p.Replace("href=\"/", "href=\""+url+"/");

      return p;

    }

    </script>

     

     

    Do you have an idea to have all absolute url everywhere? Or a system to make the exportation to a newsletter tool easier ?

     

    Thanks a lot!

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  • MrFlo 159 posts 403 karma points
    Apr 27, 2010 @ 02:05
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    http://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/extending-umbraco/4589-Overriding-umbraco-locallink-parser

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  • MrFlo 159 posts 403 karma points
    Apr 27, 2010 @ 15:43
    MrFlo
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    The previous post wasn't a good solution. Anybody has an idea to accomplish this ? Thanks

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  • dandrayne 1138 posts 2262 karma points
    Apr 27, 2010 @ 16:16
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    You may be able to try a little replace as you output the values? Hacky but should work

    <xsl:variable name="absoluteThing"><xsl:text>href="/</xsl:text></xsl:variable>
    <xsl:variable name="fullThing"><xsl:text>href="http://www.yoursite.com/</xsl:text></xsl:variable>
    <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:Replace($currentPage/data[@alias='pageContent'],$absoluteThing, $fullThing )" />

    Dan

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  • bob baty-barr 1180 posts 1294 karma points MVP
    Apr 27, 2010 @ 16:40
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    this simple line of xslt gives you the full url of the current page....

    <xsl:value-of select="concat('http://', umbraco.library:RequestServerVariables('SERVER_NAME'), umbraco.library:NiceUrl($currentPage/@id))"/>

    so, i imagine you could use that as a start...

    of course, there is also my favorite... jquery :)

    http://projects.allmarkedup.com/jquery_url_parser/

     

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  • MrFlo 159 posts 403 karma points
    Apr 27, 2010 @ 18:09
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    Thanks for your answers, will try the dandrayne solutions in a macro.

    Bob, the problem is that the urls are included in the text I received from the tidy editor so I need something like a find/replace or a system to change the wysiwyg comportment to always use full url...

    Any other ideas?

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  • bob baty-barr 1180 posts 1294 karma points MVP
    Apr 27, 2010 @ 20:27
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    what about setting a <base/> attribute in your template?

    <BASE HREF="http://www.yourdomain.com" TARGET="_top">

    not sure that helps for the mail being forwarded... but would do the trick.

     

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  • Jan Skovgaard 11280 posts 23678 karma points MVP 12x admin c-trib
    Apr 27, 2010 @ 20:43
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    I have also been using the <base/> element for this. And it seemed to be working fine even though I'm not sure that it's 100% bulletproof though.

    /Jan

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  • bob baty-barr 1180 posts 1294 karma points MVP
    Apr 28, 2010 @ 04:58
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    i think the base tag fails when the message is forwarded... some clients strip it... i think...

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  • MrFlo 159 posts 403 karma points
    Apr 28, 2010 @ 13:21
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    Yes, actually the best thing will be a check and replace after  the render of the page on each HREF and SRC to be sure. 

    And not on all website, only in some template like a newsletter one.

    So if you have a lot of different properties/field you don't have to add the dandrayne macro on each field....

     

     

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  • Fergus Davidson 309 posts 588 karma points
    Apr 28, 2010 @ 15:46
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    can you not just use something like:

    http://<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:RequestServerVariables('HTTP_HOST')" /><xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)" />
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  • dandrayne 1138 posts 2262 karma points
    Apr 28, 2010 @ 16:08
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    I wouldn't be certain that base href will survive in online mail clients (gmail etc), as they strip out any html that could interfere with the surrounding page.

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  • MrFlo 159 posts 403 karma points
    Apr 30, 2010 @ 18:03
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    I have test your solution dandrayne, it works only for url that you type your self wihtout selecting a page.

    If you select an existing page your have an url like this: href="http://www.yoururl.com/{localLink:1356}

    So It finally wasn't the solution. The best solution would be something that replace all urls after the Render without removing the replacement of localLink...

    Any ideas ?

     

     

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