p.s. - Ooops! I probably shouldn't have put my email in that original post - I pasted and copied the message from the contact form. Don't suppose you can edit it out?

Hi John,

I noticed in another message (IE messing up #anchors) what may be the same problem I am asking about.

In my case, the problem is changing relative URLs like:

pdf/filename.pdf

into this:

http://www.domainname.org/directorycontainingallthewhizzystuff/pdf/filename.pdf

(the "pdf" directory isn't within the whizzystuff directory).

You replied:

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...This is in fact the same problem as IE turning relative links into full URLs. Can't seem to stop IE messing with the darn links after whizzywig has written them out. Drives me nuts.

I think you are using this in a CMS? In which case you'll have to clean it up with code on the server side. A regular expression should do the trick. Or in php:

str_replace("$urltoedit#","#",$href);

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If this is in fact the answer for me as well, can you be very specific? I'm afraid I'm not much of a programmer.

Do I put this line in the file: abitwhizzy.php (which I've renamed)? Or in another file?

Where exactly in the file do I put that line?

Do I put that line in verbatum, or do I need to 'personalize' it in any way, like replacing # with something or other? What exactly would the line of php code be if I were only trying to prevent it from changing from relative to absolute paths, or even if I were trying to get it to simply leave the whizzystuff directory out of the absolute path it creates?

Would this keep IE from converting relative URLs into absolute URLs (with the wrong path)?

Thanks again,

- Paul

Dear Unverse,

Where did abitwhizzy go?

Hi. I'm having a bit of a problem with abitwhizzy, and when I came to this site to try to figure out what's causing it, all of the pages relating to abitwhizzy seem to be gone. What's up?

I use abitwhizzy as you suggested, as a simple CMS system on a website I administer. I set up a nice little system for editing simple .html files, which get put into .php pages as includes. It's been working great (thank you!!), and still does - using Firefox. But when I tried to edit a page in IE for the first time, it changed all of the URLs on the page, converting them from relative URLs into absolute ones, and - more troubling - inserting an incorrect path to the files.

Any idea what's wrong; why this problem would occur in IE but not FF; and how I can fix it?

With all of the abitwhizzy material missing from the site, I'm more than a bit worried. Is everything all right with it, and with you?

By the way, I tried to post a question on the whizzywig forum (what with the abitwhizzy forum being gone and all) and I was unable to post. I keep getting this message:

Whizzywig Discussion Board
NO SPAM, THANK YOU!

even though I've been extremely careful in decoding the captcha and even though I've tried 5 or 6 different captchas. Then I had the same problem when trying to use the contact form, until I turned off my firewall! Never had that happen anywhere else! I'll try posting this on the forum again, with my firewall disabled, and keep my fingers crossed!

Hoping you are OK and anxious for your reply,
- Paul Solomon
Rosendale NY