Local development and remote assets

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Hi,

I'm developing locally, but connecting to a remote database on my staging server, so I can see the correct content when I'm developing. All of my assets are uploaded through the admin on the staging server, and are therefore hosted on the staging server.

When I refer to an asset in a template, it is looking for that asset on my remote machine, so I therefore want to tell it to prepend the URL of my staging server in front of every asset path. Is there some global place I can do that? I don't fancy having to manually paste in a URL variable before every asset call in every template.

Thanks!

[chrizz]

How do you include your assets? Relative or absolute paths?

Have you tried using base href? Otherwise take a look at site/config.php You can add your own config variables an use them everywhere (e.g. in a template wire('config')->yourVariable)

[ryan]

Another option would be to add a small module that hooks Page::render and replaces the paths directly in the output... when running on localhost. It could replace it with something like this:

public function init() {
  if(wire('config')->httpHost == 'localhost') {
    $this->addHook('Page::render', $this, 'hookAfterPageRender'); 
  }
}

public function hookAfterPageRender($event) {
  $event->return = str_replace('/site/assets/files/', 'http://domain.com/site/assets/files/', $event->return); 
}

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Lovely solution, cheers Ryan!