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When I create emails to send to members, the images that I insert do not use the absolute url, but rather the relative url. This is fine for articles and items within the website, but not for emails.  So when a user receives the email, the image links are obviously broken.

Should this not be a feature of CiviMail to convert the relative urls to absolute?  This is a feature of other mail programs such as AcyMail and others.

I used one editor, JCE, that allowed you to set that parameter, but I want to use JCKEditor, which does not have that option.  However, it seems this should not be a requirement of the editor, but of the mail program (CiviMail).

Thanks,
Craig

Hello Xavier,

Here is a coding example that I found while researching the issue.   Would this be a candidate for an extension, or just used with a Mail hook (assuming there is one), or part of the core CiviMail?   I do not know the CiviCRM framework very well yet, but am learning more every day it seems out of necessity.

$txt is the relative url to convert.

function absolute_url($txt, $base_url){
  $needles = array('href="', 'src="', 'background="');
  $new_txt = '';
  if(substr($base_url,-1) != '/') $base_url .= '/';
  $new_base_url = $base_url;
  $base_url_parts = parse_url($base_url);

  foreach($needles as $needle){
    while($pos = strpos($txt, $needle)){
      $pos += strlen($needle);
      if(substr($txt,$pos,7) != 'http://' && substr($txt,$pos,8) != 'https://' && substr($txt,$pos,6) != 'ftp://' && substr($txt,$pos,9) != 'mailto://'){
        if(substr($txt,$pos,1) == '/') $new_base_url = $base_url_parts['scheme'].'://'.$base_url_parts['host'];
        $new_txt .= substr($txt,0,$pos).$new_base_url;
      } else {
        $new_txt .= substr($txt,0,$pos);
      }
      $txt = substr($txt,$pos);
    }
    $txt = $new_txt.$txt;
    $new_txt = '';
  }
  return $txt;
} 
Thank you for your assistance!

Craig