SMFbridge works but "User Menus" in Joomla are gone !!

[NoRad]

I'm not sure what you're asking, but here are two possible relevant entries in my Joomla configuration file:

Site Session Lifetime: 900 Seconds
Session Authentication Method: Level 3

[Orstio]

Is Level 3 the default?

[NoRad]

Yep

[Orstio]

What is your setting in PHP for register_long_arrays ?

[NoRad]

I don't have this information in my PHP.ini.

[Orstio]

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=63187.msg803472#msg803472

Give it a try and let me know if it helps?

[NoRad]

Ok. I added

@ini_set('register_long_arrays', TRUE);

to the top of my Joomla index.php file. We'll see if this solves anything. Thanks, and stay tuned.

[NoRad]

Well, I closed Firefox and came back to the site and the menu is missing again.

[Orstio]

Can I see a phpinfo?

[Orstio]

Thanks.  Here are the differences in session handling that I see between your setup and mine:

session.bug_compat_42   Off   Off

Mine is On in both the local and Master values.

session.gc_divisor   1000   1000

Mine is only 100???

session.name   PHPSESSID   PHPSESSID

The local value for my session name is a MD5 hash.

session.save_handler   user   files

Both of these are set to "user" in my setup.

session.save_path   c:\php\session_path\   c:\php\session_path\

This is just /tmp in my setup.  I'm not sure if this is at all relevant, but it might be.

session.use_only_cookies   Off   Off
session.use_trans_sid   Off   Off

These are both set to On in my setup.

Try changing these settings, one by one, and let me know when/if the session stays persistent?

[NoRad]

Will do. Thanks for comparing them.

[NoRad]

Well, I compared these values and it looks like you have some security issues with your php.ini. I cannot justify altering the two items that look like they would have a difference:

session.use_only_cookies   Off   Off
session.use_trans_sid   Off   Off

Both of these are not advisable, so if the bridge requires this I would recommend an alternative workaround. =(