Hi,

First of all, I would like to thank you for developing such a great plugin. I love the JoomlaFCK Editor a lot and had been using it as my all-time favorite editor in my website and had never come across any that can even come close to it. Good job!

I installed the new JoomlaCK Editor yesterday for evaluation and trial purposes. I admire its lightweight and fluent interface design, but I had encountered a problem when inserting link to my article... the "http" prefix is being stripped off from the URL I entered and had never replace back into the source of the HTML.

JoomlaFCK editor is working fine, the "http" prefix is being replaced back into the "href" parameter when I clicked on the "OK" button of the "Insert URL Popup Box", but this is not happening in the new JoomlaCK editor. May this due any misconfiguration I had with the plugin or is this a bug/known issue associated with the current version?

The JoomlaCK Editor I installed is v3.2, and my Joomla is v1.5.15

Though I can always add back the "http" prefix in source editing mode manually, this is just not a long term solution.

Hope to read your reply soon. Thanks in advance!

Hi bbchopsticks,

Thank you for your post.

In being prudent I performed a test in the JoomlaCK editor and successfully inserted an external link to www.google.co.uk , the ‘http://’ was not stripped out of the code. Please see:-


I was also able to use the 'Link' button to link to an internal article, again without the ‘http://’ prefix is being stripped off from the URL.

The link button has a ‘Protocol’ dropdown list which will allow you to select between the necessary prefix, could it be possible that you had the ‘Other’ prefix selected? This is an extra option which would behave as you have described.

If not what version and browser type are you using?

Thanks,

Paul

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your reply.

The problem will occur when you are adding an URL that is not started with "www". In your example, you are using the www.google.co.uk for testing. It works fine.

However, when you are adding an URL that is not started with "www" - for example most of the entries in Wikipedia, the "http" is being stripped off...

Takes this URL for example... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joomla
This is what I get...


I had double checked and ensured that "http" is selected in the protocol drop down list, but the prefix is not being added back. When I select the link word and click on the edit link button, the protocol "other" is automatically selected instead. I reselect the "http" as my choice, and click on OK, it gives me the same outcome - the "http" is missing.

Is this a bug in current release that only recognize URL that starts with "www" as http link?

PS:
The same problem is duplicated in FireFox 3.5 and IE8. I haven't tried any other browser, but am expecting the same outcome.

Hi bbchopsticks,

Thank for bring this to our attention. We will work to have it fixed in the next release.

I will now move this post to the know issue folder.

Paul

I have modified the core CKEDITOR link plugin. So it now works as you expect. Although it is not necessary to put the the 'http' prefix as the browser will put that in automatically for you.

Regards

Fixed and packaged into in version: 3.3.1

To download, please see: www.joomlackeditor.com/downloads

Hi Guys,

one of our users 'Andybon' has kindly posted out in post www.joomlackeditor.com/forum/37-general-...mages-and-files#2275
has reported that this again in an issue in the 3.4.5 package.

Thanks,

P

I have tested the issue mentioned here regarding the logic of what the default protocol should be in the link plugin.
The next editor release will include a fix which changes the logic to default to 'other'. This means that users will not need to adjust the protocol select box if they wish to add an internal link.

Regards,