In summer 2006, I created the img_relocator module, which was published to my sandbox, and apparently picked up by some Drupal admins, although it was never promoted to full-fledged project status.
As I suggested in march 2007, the URL replace filter module by David Lesieur looked like a promising replacement for that experimental module, and it would be possible at some point to switch to his module.
Well, as I see it, that time has come: with two recent patches (
#255314 and
#255332) I submitted today, it seems all use cases of img_relocator can now be covered by URL_replace_filter.
For the most common case, where you want to have image links like <img src="foo.png" alt="foo" /> replaced on the fly by <img src="http://www.example.com/bar/foo.png" alt="foo" />, all it takes is a one-time update to your database: replace your file references to "foo.png" by a "magic" path of your choice, like "magic". Then:
- apply the patches to
url_replace_filteror use a newer version including these patches if David chooses to validate them - go to
admin/settings/url_replace_filterand enable absolute path generation - for each of the content types on which you have enabled the url_replace_filter input filter, configure it with a rule like:
magic/becomes%baseurl/
And that's all there is to it ! Of course, if you meet problems with this change, comment here since there is no issue queue on d.o. for img_relocator, and I'll try to answer here.
After a transition period lasting until 2008/06/30, I will remove img_relocator from my sandbox, to limit confusion on newcomers.