A Possible problem related to the BRIDGE!?

[Orstio]

Since this is something going on in the dynamic of the bridge/SMF, Joomla developers and moderators would probably have no idea what to do.

Yes, if I can get Joomla superadmin access, that would be helpful to see what is going on.

[eyebrowpaul]

No problem. I have PM'ed you with those details. Hope you might be able to find something. FINGERS CROSSED

Paul

[eyebrowpaul]

Just to throw this into the mix...

I have been doing a bit of research and reading both in the SMF forum and Joomla forum and have read that some templates (joomla) can conflict with SMF Theme??? So this leads me to ask if this really has nothing to do with my problem. I am guessing not as It was working fine awhile ago but I thought I would ask anyways as I edit the template constantly as well as the css.

I have read that some people using IE cant even see the website because of this conflict!! I just thought I would ask.

Out of curiosity what Joomla template are you using, many have conflicts, it's an issue that is not unknown with IE7.

[Orstio]

No, themes and templates should have nothing to do with sessions.

[eyebrowpaul]

To update anyone looking at this forum this is what we know -

Everything seems OK, except for the $_SESSION['return'] variable, which doesn't seem to make it back to the bridge intact.  I am definitely puzzled.

There is no need to panic.

VirtueMart is a good product.  The developer works very hard at making sure of it.

The version of Joomla distributed by VirtueMart contains code that does not play very nicely with the bridge, so as long as you downloaded from joomla.org [nofollow], and then installed VM as a component, all should be well.

The $_SESSION['return'] is used only by the bridge to remember where to redirect after login or logout.  So, the impact there is fairly minor, except for the annoyance of not going back to the proper page.

I personally downloaded from Joomla first than later on downloaded Virtue Mart... (I did something right for once)

I will also try posting on other forums to see if anyone out there will be able to figure this out and again for everyones knowledge I am using Joomla 1.0.12, SMF 1.1.2, SMF Official Bridge 1.1.7, VirtueMart 1.0.10, and JCcal Pro 1.5.3 (Calendar Component).

So if anyone out there can help oor would like to look through any code please let me know.

Hoping all the time

Paul

[eyebrowpaul]

Has / Does anyone else have this problem? If so could you say.

Thankyou

Paul

[eyebrowpaul]

Jcal Pro said the following:

JCalPro doesn't use any session commands or variables at all, so I doubt it could be the problem. The default theme sets cookies, but doesn't mess with session variables at all.

It sounds like something is either completly resetting the session variables, or just messing with the "return" variable. If you could edit the appropriate code to use "smf_return" instead of "return", it might help narrow things down and could actually make it work. This could be trivial or incredibly difficult to do, depending on how the code is written.

Does this help or shed light on anything at all?? If anyone thinks it does please let me know

Paul