Both are Itemid issues. SEF Advance finds the correct Itemid for you so just make sure you don't have duplicates or trashed menu items according to: http://www.sakic.net/support/faq/sef_advance/#16

You don't have to worry about adding or appending Itemid in the extension file because Itemid is calculated by SEF Advance instead.

That's not standard Joomla! behavior. You should always have only one Itemid for a single component.

You could, however, use alias as workaround.

Hi again.

Apart from the following problem everything seems to be working great. I would be nice to solve this because my customers will be happy to be able to use SEF Advance.

So the problem, as stated in my previous posts is disappearing modules or they simply never appear.

If a person wants to have multiple menu links for different jReviews tasks
and for each menu he wants to assign a different module, the modules just don't show. The links need to be created as url menus, per your comment above about using parameters not being a Joomla! standard. This is what the menus look like:

index.php?option=com_jreviews&task=listsection&dir=1&section=1
index.php?option=com_jreviews&task=listsection&dir=1&section=2

I am really looking forward to figuring this out. The FAQ about pathway, etc. is fine and I understand what needs to be done for core Joomla content, but what about 3rd party components?

Thanks,

Alejo

Ok, i appreciate your looking into this. Let me give you an example of how this would be useful in the case jReviews users.

jReviews allows the user to create multiple directories. So a user creates a separate menu link for each directory and then he wants to assign a different navigation module to each directory. That's just a simple example, but there are a lot of other useful things that can be done with jReviews modules and specific menus, like narrowing down search results using fields that are specific to a category and require separate modules, etc.

The only thing I need is for SEF Advance to not find an Itemid if one is already found by the sef_ext.php file. It sort of works already, but not always, because sometimes it seems like SEF Advance is overriding the one I am outputting in the sef_ext file. What I did for my urls is that if it is a menu link I put something like /m/15, which means that it's a menu and the Itemid is 15, so when I revert the friendly url to it's non friendly one I do:

$_REQUEST['Itemid'] = $_POST['Itemid'] = $_GET['Itemid'] = 15

I am guessing that SEF Advance overwrites this in some cases. I can also find the Itemid myself even if the url is not in the /m/15 format. I just need a method to override SEF Advance's discovery of the Itemid.

I have not finished my tests yet, but jReviews also uses Joomla content and the content links inherit the Itemid of the directory they are in, or like with Joomla content, if a jReviews section list or category list menu exists, then they inherit that Itemid. I created my own getItemid function to do this. So I need to check whether the correct modules show up depending on what directory the content belongs in.

Thanks for your help.

Alejo

Hi,

I have looked into this issue and here is how you can override setting of Itemid from within the extension:

First determine $Itemid. Then set:
$_GET['Itemid'] = $Itemid;
$_REQUEST['Itemid'] = $Itemid;

Then create this variable:
$QUERY_STRING = "option=$option&Itemid=$Itemid";
Don't forget to globalize it if it's within a function.

This should now override the Itemid setting of the SEF Advance.

Would it be possible to extend the trial license for a few days?

I reset your record so you can download the trial again.

Finally I was able to get back to this. Your solution works great. I decided to use the menu name as a replacement for the Itemid I was using on the menus and since the menu names need to be unique this works perfect, although now menu names need to be unique from content sections as well, but I don't think that's a problem.

A couple of questions:

1) How can I check if SEF Advance is installed and enabled for jReviews? With OpenSEF you do a check for _OPENSEF, is there a constant defined in SEF Advance that I can check? I need this for my xajax functionality because I have to manually include the SEF file if it is enabled to redirect to a sef url because the xajax bot is run before the sef one.

2) I can't seem to get the new caching to work. The cache files are created but the number of queries remain the same (using the Joomla debug). I assume the cache is checked before running the create function, correct? What could be the problem? I am running this on a local server.

Thanks,