[development] a couple things to discuss about base_path()

[Walt Daniels]

I like 4 combined with 3. Once 4 exists, 3 should be trivial to implement.
Making it visible on screen, means that it is more likely to get done. Yes,
people who have not installed the contrib will get nasty message, but that
is better than slowly getting broken link reports. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: development-bounces at drupal.org 
> [mailto:development-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Matt Westgate
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:09 AM
> To: development at drupal.org
> Subject: [development] a couple things to discuss about base_path()
> 
> 
> While base_path() does many a good thing, it also presents a 
> couple of obstacles that could use further discussion.
> 
> - Enabling or disabling clean_urls on a site with content 
> will break hand-rolled links. For example on my staging 
> server clean_urls are disabled but they're enabled in 
> production. If I continue to do that, my links will break.
> 
> - Moving a Drupal site from one subdirectory to another or 
> from a subdirectory up to a root folder will break links if 
> the site is using clean_urls.
> 
> How should we solve these problems? A couple of ideas. Let's pick one.
> 
> 1) Provide a link updater script in the scripts/ folder
> 
> 2) Add some sort of 'fix my links' button via the admin interface
> 
> 3) Hook a URL fixing script into the clean_url form toggle so 
> it runs after the setting has changed.
> 
> 4) Make a link-updater contrib module to point users to.
> 
> 
> I'm in the camp of #4 since I see this as a rarely used 
> interface option. Oh, and I'm also volunteering my time to 
> write the mod.
> 
> Matt Westgate | www.lullabot.com
> 
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