Pathologic is an input filter which can correct paths in links and images in your Backdrop content in situations which would otherwise cause them to “break;” for example, if the URL of the site changes, or the content was moved to a different server. Pathologic can also solve the problem of missing images and broken links in your site’s RSS feeds. See more example use cases on the documentation page.
Pathologic is designed to be a simple, set-it-and-forget-it utility. You don't need to enter any special “tags,” path prefixes, or other non-content noise into your content to trigger Pathologic to work; it finds paths it can manage in your content automatically.
As Pathologic is an input filter, installation and configuration is a little more difficult than it is for a standard module — but it's still not that tough, if you follow the full installation and configuration guide here.
Backdrop's Pathologic module is based on the Drupal module's 7.x-3.x branch.
Want to know more? Here's some articles about Pathologic by others:
- Module Monday: Pathologic by Jeff Eaton of Lullabot
- How-to screencast by Shane Thomas of Code Karate
- Drupal Pathologic Module Best Solution to Get Rid of Broken Links by Deepu Balan
- Fix broken content links with the Pathologic Module by Caryl J Westerberg of Stanford University
- Avoiding Problems with the Drupal Pathologic Module by Bill Powell of About.com
For full installation and configuration instructions, please see this page in the Drupal online manual: http://drupal.org/node/257026
- Ported to Backdrop by Jerome Danthinne.
- Originally written for Drupal by Garrett Albright.
This project is GPL v2 software. See the LICENSE.txt file in this directory for complete text.