"Viewing the category ."

[kai920]

While viewing Who's Online in SMF, sometimes I see this message "Viewing the category ." (it's blank)

I suspect it's because I changed some of my Joomla categories, resulting in different or non-existant URLs. Is there a way to fix this small issue?


PS. I also plan on doing a Joomla section/category revamp in the near future

[Orstio]

I could see this happening, especially if a search engine was looking at a cached page that no longer exists.

Or, perhaps, these categories still exist in your trash, which is why the bridge is unable to find the name in the database?

Basically, even if it found a URL to the category, if it didn't find a name, the result would be the same.

[kai920]

I didn't have any menu items in the trash, but I emptied the content items.

Is there a way to prevent non-existent links from being accessed?

[Orstio]

I know the Yahoo crawler seems to store a list of links.  It crawls some links on my site that haven't had content there for over 4 years, actually.  I don't know if there is any way to change that.

[青山 素子]

You can try using a sitemap and sending that to Yahoo! Site Explorer.

[kai920]

Revisiting this topic, what does "Viewing Something Else." mean?

The "Something Else" links to index.php?option=&Itemid=0

[Kindred]

"something else" means that whoever it is is looking at an Itemid that is not defined in the action array.

Could be anything you have installed on your system that was not defined into the list by Orstio or me.

[kai920]

"something else" means that whoever it is is looking at an Itemid that is not defined in the action array.

Could be anything you have installed on your system that was not defined into the list by Orstio or me.

I recently installed SEF Advanced... could that be it?

Or it could be the same problem of changing my menus around...?

[Kindred]

it could be that you have a component that I never detailed in the array....

[kai920]

oh - right! that part of yr reply completely went over my head lol.

I believe the component in question would be Joomla Tags by Phil Taylor. How hard is it to ad it into the array?

[Kindred]

just open up the file, copy a line and change the copied line to suit your additional component.

[kai920]

The file to edit is components/com_smf/smf_integration_arrays.php correct?

I'm trying this, but I don't understand the %1$s stuff.

Non-SEF URL: http://www.kaitech.hk/index.php?option=com_tag&tag=HTC&tag_id=448 - I would like this to show "Viewing the tag HTC", with HTC linking to this URL.

   

Code Select Expand

$txt['who_tag'] = 'Viewing the tag <a href="' . ($mosConfig_sef !='1' ? $mosConfig_live_site . '/index.php?option=com_tag&amp;tag=%2$s&amp;tag_id=%1$s' : sefReltoAbs ('index.php?option=com_tag&amp;tag=%2$s&amp;tag_id=%1$s')) . '">%2$s</a>.';

Also I would like this link: http://www.kaitech.hk/index.php?option=com_tag&Itemid=124 to be shown as "Viewing the Tag Cloud." , with Tag Cloud linked...

I've tried various code and it all shows Viewing Something Else.   

[Orstio]

You'll also need to add the condition into the integrate_whos_online function in smf.php.

[kai920]

You'll also need to add the condition into the integrate_whos_online function in smf.php.

Ah! No one told me that!

Will give it another try.

[kai920]

OK, need help from the master(s)...   

(1) I discovered that "Who's Online" is not showing correctly even for viewing articles. It says Viewing Something Else. I believe it has to do with SEF Advance since it was working before that?

(2) here is what I attempted for integrating com_tag into "Who's Online". The actual URLs are:

(non-SEF) http://www.kaitech.hk/index.php?option=com_tag&tag=O2&tag_id=416
(plain SEF) http://www.kaitech.hk/component/option,com_tag/tag,O2/tag_id,416/  (SEF Advance turns this into something else, would that have any impact?)

Code (smf.php) Select Expand


        //How about the Tags?
        else if ($actions['option']=='com_tag')  {
            return sprintf($txt['who_tag'], $actions['option'], $actions['tag'], $actions['tag_id']);
        }

Code (smf_integration_arrays.php) Select Expand


    $txt['who_tag'] = 'Viewing the tag <a href="' . ($mosConfig_sef !='1' ? $mosConfig_live_site . '/index.php?option=com_tag&amp;tag=%2$s&amp;tag_id=%3$s' : sefReltoAbs ('index.php?option=com_tag&amp;tag=%2$s&amp;tag_id=%3$s') . '%3$s/') . '">%2$s</a>.';


[kai920]

Any hints for the two problems?

[Kindred]

no clue...  I don't bother with SEF, so I never designed any of my modules to do anything with it....   but the who's online/what are they doing should track it correctly, since the $actions['option'] should still be set.

You seem to have some sort of truly bizarre configuration, Kai, in that you have all these issues that I have never seen on any other site.

[kai920]

Yeah, feels like I need someone to perform some exorcism on my site

[kai920]

Orstio, have you got any idea(s) what might be wrong?

[Orstio]

I would experiment by echoing $actions['option'] to see what the result is, and then alter the array accordingly.

[kai920]

I would experiment by echoing $actions['option'] to see what the result is, and then alter the array accordingly.

OK, I've got my site duplicated on localhost. Viewing my site in two different browsers.

On FF I see:

    [option] => com_content
    [task] => view
    [id] => 363
    [Itemid] => 54

/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=363&Itemid=54

... but on IE it just says I am viewing the homepage of my site. When I change to view another content or blogcategory, nothing seems to get updated.

The SMF functions (search, who's online, stats, etc.) shows up fine, Home page shows up fine.

I've even disabled SEF Advance so as to use "plain" SEF URLs, but the same result.  It wouldn't have anything to do with .htaccess would it?

[Orstio]

but on IE it just says I am viewing the homepage of my site. When I change to view another content or blogcategory, nothing seems to get updated.

This probably means that IE is caching the pages somehow.

[kai920]

It's the same behavior if I see what the IE browser is doing using FF.

[Orstio]

It's the same behavior if I see what the IE browser is doing using FF.

Correct.

Do you have caching enabled in both Mambo and SMF?

[kai920]

Let's see... Joomla cache = No, SMF = Off.

I had some files in my Joomla cache directory and just deleted them...

[kai920]

Could this problem be related to SEF Advance? 

[Orstio]

Possibly.  I think SEFAdvance has some sort of caching feature as well, no?

[kai920]

Possibly.  I think SEFAdvance has some sort of caching feature as well, no?

It does - but I don't have it enabled.