Hi Duke,

I was about to say "completely impossible", but then found a way to do it :-)

This recipe works for the standard Joomla "Image" button that sits below the article editing window. It does *not* work for the JCE image selector. That looks like a much more complex job.

It doesn't use MetaMod, but uses MetaTemplate. It doesn't even require the Pro version.

Simply install MetaTemplate and make a new rule.

In the "SUCCEED" action there's a Run PHP box. Paste in the following:


$bug = ($option == 'com_content'
  and $view == 'category'
  and JRequest::getVar('ret') != null
  and JRequest::getVar('task') == "edit");
if ($bug) {
  unset( $_SESSION['mm_category_alias'] );
  return;
}
if ($core_genius->check("pagetype startswith article, category")) {
  $_SESSION['mm_category_alias'] = $content_genius->info("category_alias");
  return;
};
if ( !$bug and $option == "com_media" and $view == "images") {
  $alias = $_SESSION['mm_category_alias'];
  if ( JRequest::getVar("folder") === null) JRequest::setVar("folder", $alias);
}


It's magic!

There's only 1 gotcha that I don't have time to solve properly. If you have Joomla built-in SEF enabled, and are viewing a category list or blog page and edit the article from there (rather than editing it from an article view page), then the category alias gets messed up. This is due to a bug in Joomla. So in that case the recipe above does NOT set the folder.

Best regards,
Stephen