[TYPO3-ttnews] Get rid of relative URLs when generating RSS Feeds

[Dan Osipov]

Have you tried using config.absRefPrefix ?

Dan Osipov
Calkins Media
http://danosipov.com/blog/

Prakash wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In RSS generated using tt_news, I tried to convert all relative URLs to 
> absolute URLs. I tried a solution for the same.
> 
> I used the general_stdWrap property of tt_news which applies stdWrap for 
> body, shorttext and, links to add the URL prefix as follows:
> 
>  **********************************************************************
>  Typoscript used is as follows:
>  **********************************************************************
>  [globalVar=GP:type=100]
>  includeLibs.ttnewsabs = fileadmin/templates/absTypolink.php
> 
>    plugin.tt_news.general_stdWrap.parseFunc.tags.link.typolink >
>    plugin.tt_news.general_stdWrap.parseFunc.tags.link.typolink.userFunc 
> = user_typoLinkABS
> 
>  [global]
> 
>  **********************************************************************
>  The Function user_typoLinkABS is as follows:
>  **********************************************************************
>  function user_typoLinkABS($content,$conf)    {
> 
>     $patterntoSearch = 
> "([http])([ftp])([irc])([feed])([mailto])([javascript])";
>     if( preg_match($pattern,$content['url']) == 0){
>         $content['url'] = $GLOBALS['TSFE']->baseUrlWrap($content['url']);
>         $content['TAG'] = '<a href="'.$content['url'].'" 
> '.$content['targetParams'].' '.$content['aTagParams'].'>';
>     }
> 
>     return $content['TAG'];
>  }
>  **********************************************************************
> 
> /*** THE Real BIG ISSUE ***/
> I however found that the previous changes were not sufficient because we 
> were using the DAM media tags in tt_news that are inserted through RTE, 
> and they still had relative URLs.
> 
> I checked and found that this is generated using a DAM class and I added 
> an XCLASS for the same.
> 
> This however seems a temporary fix, because as RTE is extended we may 
> have to patch each of the related Extensions! Of course this is not 
> feasible.
> For example, I noticed that the Magic Images inserted using RTE still 
> did not have the Absolute URLs!
> 
> I closely checked again, and found that when we use 
> xmlnews.config.absRefPrefix, all the URLs do get the Absolute URL prefix 
> as required but the RealURLs were not generated as desired.
> Instead I got something like http://www.domain.com?id=12&params
> 
> To worsen the situation all news title had the domain name added twice like.
> http://www.domain.com/http://www.domain.com/index.php?id=668&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=562&cHash=60de7afc2a
> 
> This seems quite complex than I had expected, and I am looking forward 
> on how I can proceed on this.
> 
> What am I doing wrong? What is the best way to fix this issue? Anybody?
> 
> Thank you for reading and hope you would give a solution too  :-)
> 
> -- 
> *Regards,
> Prakash A Bhat*
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