Best approach: Rewrite all IMG-Urls after HTML is build

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Best approach: Rewrite all IMG-Urls after HTML is build

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Hello,
I'm currently working on a plugin doing the following:
Catch all img-Tags, look at the URL and possibly rewrite them.
The Problem is: I can't do this with s9etextformatter, because the Rewritten URL changes every few days for security reasons.

So my idea is to get the HTML-Code inside the core.page_footer_after-Event, and rewrite it then.

How is this possible, unfortunately, I didn't find the right object to access and modify all HTML yet?

Is there a better place for rewriting Image-URL's in Posts and Message, regarding to caching?

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Re: Best approach: Rewrite all IMG-Urls after HTML is build

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margau wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 7:30 am The Problem is: I can't do this with s9etextformatter, because the Rewritten URL changes every few days for security reasons.
But won't it still change no matter which event you use?

Where is this "new" URL coming from?
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Re: Best approach: Rewrite all IMG-Urls after HTML is build

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Can't you simply use either of core.text_formatter_s9e_render_before or core.text_formatter_s9e_render_after? That's handled when a post is displayed.
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Re: Best approach: Rewrite all IMG-Urls after HTML is build

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david63 wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 8:00 am
margau wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 7:30 am The Problem is: I can't do this with s9etextformatter, because the Rewritten URL changes every few days for security reasons.
But won't it still change no matter which event you use?

Where is this "new" URL coming from?
Hello, yes it won't.
The problem is: core.text_formatter_s9e_configure_after is only run before the rendered BBCode is written into the Database - so I can't replace it there, because I have no "static" replacement. Have already tried that.

The "new" URL is a timestamp combined with the Original URL, we need it to have a "timeout" for our imageproxy.
The board has over 15 years in history, so changing all old posts in the database would be a not-so-great solution.
Ger wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 10:14 am Can't you simply use either of core.text_formatter_s9e_render_before or core.text_formatter_s9e_render_after? That's handled when a post is displayed.
Am I right that I cannot run attribute-filters on the renderer? Tried that too.

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Re: Best approach: Rewrite all IMG-Urls after HTML is build

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If it's just about adding a timestamp to an URL, can't you do it with a few lines of Javascript?
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Re: Best approach: Rewrite all IMG-Urls after HTML is build

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It would be helpful to know a little more about exactly what you want to achieve.

Assuming that due to the frequent change just reading the database via SQL and performing the rewrites in there is not a viable solution, then altering the HTML 'on the fly' would be your option.

As Ger has mentioned you can do this by using the core.text_formatter_s9e_render_after Event as this gives you access to the HTML for that post.
Once you have successfully edited that HTML then that is what will be displayed to the Client.
Not sure if that also is valid for Messages but I would suspect so.

If the Domain Name for all the Image URLs is the same or if All image URLs need editing the HTML will be simpler to edit than if they are not.

Is the 'TimeStamp' an integral part of the URL Or is it just for display ?
How does the 'TimeStamp' relate to the Post Time or the Current Time ?

An Example of the 'Before Edit' and 'After Edit' URL would give us a much better idea of what you want to achieve.

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Edited to correct the mentioned Event as per JoshyPHP's following post
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Re: Best approach: Rewrite all IMG-Urls after HTML is build

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margau wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 3:58 pm Am I right that I cannot run attribute-filters on the renderer? Tried that too.
No, attribute filters are applied at parsing time. The renderer is a lightweight process that simply builds HTML based on what's already there.

The event you'll want to use is core.text_formatter_s9e_render_after.
I wrote the library that handles markup in phpBB 3.2+.
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