{"id":136,"date":"2010-06-04T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2010-06-04T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T14:15:00","slug":"typo3-filelinks-are-not-actually-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Typo3: Filelinks are not actually links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever named the <a href=\"http:\/\/typo3.org\/\">Typo3<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.typo3.org\/index.php\/TSref\/filelink\">filelinks<\/a>, should be fired. Out of a cannon. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0584449\/quotes?qt0336861\">Into the sun<\/a>. This is because the file<i>link<\/i>, does not actually <i>link<\/i> to a file, but it <i>copies<\/i> it to some folder (upload\/media by default). Why this is so, is beyond my understanding. When you add a simple link in the RTE, and link to a file, you get the expected result: You get an &lt;a&gt; tag linking to the corresponding file in the fileadmin\/ folder of Typo3. But when using the filelink, the file will be copied to the upload\/media\/ directory. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I have tried to use the DAM extension (digital asset management), but that is such a convoluted, under-documented beast, that I got rid of it very quickly. Now I still do not have a solution, but I welcome every hint on how to solve this.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever named the Typo3 filelinks, should be fired. Out of a cannon. Into the sun. This is because the filelink, does not actually link to a file, but it copies it to some folder (upload\/media by default). Why this is so, is beyond my understanding. When you add a simple link in the RTE, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=136\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Typo3: Filelinks are not actually links&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[96],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}