Bug? System setting upload_translit removes "." before file extension

vibedesign · December 21, 2023, 2:23am

Whenever I upload a file within the media browser, the dot . before the file extension gets truncated. This causes an uploaded image.jpg to be uploaded as imagejpg, also file.pdf gets filepdf.

When I turn off the system setting upload_translit this does not happen anymore and everything works as expected.

This is obviously a bad thing to happen. I found a thread discussing the lowercase part of this setting, but nobody mentioned this specific issue.

Therefore is this a bug or is this something that’s somehow just happening to my setup?

MODX 3.0.4
PHP 8.2

halftrainedharry · December 21, 2023, 8:29am

What’s the value of the system setting friendly_alias_restrict_chars_pattern?
If a . is in the pattern, then this could explain the behavior.

MODX 3.0.0 Media Browser Upload strips the . from the file name

opened 04:10PM - 14 Apr 22 UTC

closed 09:24PM - 22 Apr 22 UTC

PeterBcreates

bug

## Bug report ### Summary When uploading a file using the Media Browser (acces…sed from the Media menu on the upper left of the Manager) it strips away the dot that prepends the file type. ### Step to reproduce Launch Media > Media Browser, navigate to and select folder to upload image to, click on the circular black Up Arrow icon or right click on the folder to display and activate "Upload Files" in the contextual menu. ### Observed behavior It strips out the . Thus "ArdenMeg.webp" becomes "ardenmegwebp" <img width="248" alt="Medi-Browser-error" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/102907654/163430018-2064413c-9a65-4e32-9a1f-9511be626a8e.png"> ### Expected behavior **Maybe it's not a feature but a bug**. When I insert the image into a resource, it displays fine in Firefox, Brave and Safari as "ardenmegwebp" ### Environment MODXcloud 3.0.0 upgrade from 2.8.4

vibedesign · December 21, 2023, 10:33am

Yes, that’s it. I added a dot in there a while ago, because I don’t like having dots in the url-alias. Didn’t think that this would also be used for file uploads. Is there a way to seperate those or make the upload part use a different setting? It’s not a big problem as I will just deactivate upload_translit but in general this might be a considerable improvement.

Thank you!

halftrainedharry · December 21, 2023, 10:59am

You could try creating a context setting with the same name friendly_alias_restrict_chars_pattern and a different value.

I believe for the URL alias the context setting would be used, and for the file upload the system setting. But I could be wrong.

system · December 23, 2023, 10:59am

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