[TYPO3-dam] DAM, RTE, <media> and ts_links

[ben van 't ende [netcreators]]

Hi,

This feature works really great with the nice title attribute showing details of
the file. I do not know where the <media> tag fits in here. I do not see a
<media> tag anywhere.

Anyway i found a strange bug with realurl. If you link to a dam record that has
the same id as an existing page the link to the file is interpreted as a link to
the page with that id and not to the file itself. So an image would for instance
link to my graffity page instead of to that file. this has something to do with
realurl

you can see this here: http://ben.vantende.net/t3/dam/

the first link is a link to an image, but is actually converted to a page link.
the second one is ok.

weird isn't it?

gRTz

ben




René Fritz wrote:
> I would like to discuss the RTE linking solution included in 1.1beta05.
> 
> This seems to be one of the most wanted features, so I would like to get some 
> feedback if it's working as expected.
> 
> For detailed information have a look in the manual of the dam extension, 
> section "RTE and <media> tag".
> 
> 
> What is it all about?
> 
> The RTE just generates <a> tags with a reference to a linked file. To make use 
> of DAM features, this tag needs to be converted when saving the content to 
> the database. (Such things are configured with 
> TSconfig 'RTE.default.proc...')
> In FE that special tag needs to be rendered as an <a> tag like TYPO3 does with 
> <link> tags.
> 
> 
> <media> vs <link>
> 
> First some background information:
> I thought a good solution would be to use the known <link> tag which would 
> look like that for a link to a dam asset:
> <link dam:243>Link text</link>
> 
> The main disadvantage would have been that the RTE processing rule "ts_links" 
> needs to be overridden with an own version. ts_links is called when the 
> shortcut ts_css is used for example:
> RTE.default.proc.overruleMode = ts_css
> 
> So I decided to use a new tag <media>. For FE rendering an own .tags.media 
> parseFunc can be registered and for RTE processing the system rule ts_links 
> does not need to be overridden.
> 
> The problem is that the RTE generates <a> tags and however both ts_links and 
> the <media> processing does not work at the same time. In the end I had to 
> override ts_links (what I wanted to avoid) to make <a> to <media> tag 
> processing work.
> 
> The conclusion is, in principle the format <link dam:243> could be implemented 
> because I override ts_links anyway. But I think the new <media> tag might be 
> more flexible in the future.
> 
> 
> <media> parameters
> 
> The media tag use the same parameters as the link tag. The question is, is 
> that a good decision, or should another scheme be used for the media tag? The 
> disadvantage of the link tag is that parameters have to be in the right 
> order. A naming scheme for the paramters might be more flexible.
> 
> 
> What do you think
> 
> René
> 


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