Question ItemIDs not respected, resulting in loss of module. Now with Steps posted to Confirm bug

Again, I would like to pay the developers to fix this. How can I do this?

Just so that we understand what you're discussing, can you please confirm that the RSS feed is displayed in the area I've highlighted (pink rectangle) below:


How did you create this RSS feed? I'm still trying to understand how Kunena has affected the display. I've created an RSS feed, set the parameters to display on all forum pages and the feed appears on all forum pages. I'm not sure if it's a Kunena problem.

rogerdavis wrote:

The forums at www.mentalhealthpractitioners.com/index....unc=listcat&catid=84 are simply a category of forums.. You can link to a category of Forums. And when you do, each menu item gets its own Item ID. But................the links inside the forum itself still reflect the main forum link. The links inside the forum need to reflect the Item Id associated with the menu item that links to the cagegories.

I'm sorry, I don't understand the problem as you've worded it. The "forums are ... a category of forums" :S You can "link to a category of forums", yes (I suppose you can), but how are you doing this? Your further reference to the "links inside the forum" pointing to the "main forum link" - what links are these? :blink: I'm lost.

The RSS feeds are just mod_slickRSS. I might have changed the CSS some..can't remember.

Anyway, my purpose was to build a little portal for each area of mental disorders. The Anxiety Disorders are one such little portal. I'm a psychologist, and I want this to be my community site.

Anyway, I created a forum at the top and linked that to Kunena. See the forum link. Next, I copied the link for each category of forums and pasted it in as an external link. That link has a catid in it that tells Kunena which category to display.

I thought it would be okay, since I thought Kunena would test the URL for an ItemID, and use that ItemID preferentially to the item for the main forum, thereby allowing users to create little portals like this.

But it doesn't, and unless I can work this out somehow, I'd have to give up on Kunena and see if I can do this by bridging PHPBB, which I don't want to do.

Roger

PS. Check out the layout on my community builder profile at www.mentalhealthpractitioners.com/index....=userProfile&user=62 I thought that was sweet.

This SEEMS to fix the problem

Line 36 in class.kunena.php is:

$Itemid = intval(mosGetParam($_REQUEST, 'Itemid'));

So this is where Kunena is getting the Itemid from the URL. However, whatever happens in this line is irrelevant, since the next line is

if (!defined("KUNENA_COMPONENT_ITEMID")) {

KUNENA_COMPONENT_ITEMID isn't defined yet in code, so the Itemid from the URL is immediately overridden.

The solution is to add these lines immediately below line 36:

if ($Itemid) {
define("KUNENA_COMPONENT_ITEMID", (int)$Itemid);
define("KUNENA_COMPONENT_ITEMID_SUFFIX", "&Itemid=" . KUNENA_COMPONENT_ITEMID);
}

Now I have my modules again, as they were assigned to links to Kunena categories of forums. You can now see that all the links internal to the Kunena board inherit their ItemID from the current menu item. Yay!! Woohooo!!!

For me, this is huge.

Roger

Because you did not address the questions I asked, I'm no closer to understanding the problem. I have doubts that your problem is related to Kunena but, as eezz observed, it's related to the way you've developed your website in Joomla.

The URL you gave us before ( www.mentalhealthpractitioners.com/index....unc=listcat&catid=84 ) results in a page that displays the aberrant RSS feed. How do your users get to that URL?

rogerdavis wrote

I created a forum at the top and linked that to Kunena. See the forum link.

The "Forums" link, located at the top of your website's pages, has as its target a different URL ( www.mentalhealthpractitioners.com/index....om_kunena&Itemid=415 ). The resultant target URL does not have an RSS feed! Why is there a difference between the URL you gave us and the URL from the "Forums" link I've just mentioned.

rogerdavis wrote

Next, I copied the link for each category of forums and pasted it in as an external link. That link has a catid in it that tells Kunena which category to display.

I thought it would be okay, since I thought Kunena would test the URL for an ItemID, and use that ItemID preferentially to the item for the main forum, thereby allowing users to create little portals like this.

You copied and pasted links where? Why bother doing that when your categories are already linked to discussion topics. Where can I see an example what you did? I think you've overcomplicated the requirement.

My suspicion is that you have two so-called "forums" modules: one of them displays the RSS feed, the other doesn't. When your users access the module that contains the RSS feed, the links contained on that page reference the other module. Does that make sense?

Ignore what I wrote. I'm pleased you fixed the problem even though I'm not sure how what created the problem in the first place.