Implemented Email templates relative paths

Hi Ruud

I am using some links and some images in my email templates, but every time i re-open them the urls become relevant (e.g. <a href="subscribe").
Not sure if there is some filtering from the editor or is coming from your code.
Any idea?

Kind regards,

Hi Sakis,

that is a editor 'feature' that (depending on your editor) can be turned on / off: note that this is then generic so when turning it off it will also be turned off in other extensions.

What I do is before saving the email template, turn off the editor (and check if all URL's are still absolute)

Hi Sakis,
so did a deeper dive into this to see if I can improve

In the email send ochSubscriptions adds the following line:
<base href="[your domain]" />

What this does / should do, is instruct the email client to make a relative url (e.g. test-url) absolute (so: [your domain]/test-url)

This way you can use both absolute and relative urls in your email templates as these will then be handled by the email client.

but... what if the email client doesn't use / respect the 'base href' setting? Then the absolute urls will work, but the relative urls will not (as these point to nowhere).

tinyMCE can be configured to store urls as relative or absolute: this has impact on everything the editor is used for, so when changing it to store absolute urls (which we want in emails) then also in articles all urls will be absolute (which we don't want)...

So in the version above I have a version of ochSubscriptions that will convert all elements (a, img, link, script, form, input, video, audio, source) in the email template to absolute URLs when rendering and sending the email (so not in the template itself).
This way you can either use absolute or relative urls: absolute will stay unchanged 9as these can also point to another website) and relative urls will be made absolute pointing to your site.

Can you give this a test to see if it works as intended and solves this url nightmare