Hi @lurtnowski, I doubt that we are allowed to post modifications to this script on a public forum then. What you might try though is modifying the generated DOM afterwards by replacing the nodes’ hrefs:
I recommend that you use a free jQuery tree viewer instead. The FileBrowser Demo (below the basic ajax demo) shown at https://www.jstree.com/demo/ is a good example of what it can do. Links are all supported too.
Oh, but you mentioned filtering too. JSTree supports searching, but just in case here’s another free jQuery library that also provides filtering of a tree view.