Famous Sh404sef vs Joomfish problem

[nono1974]

By the way the top menu is not translated despite it links the right translated content when i request translation with 2nd flag language.

[six gun]

I updated to 2.04
I have still got sh404SEF
And like always the main menu disappears - in all languages

I overwrite the language selection module with that from Joomfish 2.0.
Back comes the menu - like always...
Well it works anyway!

[nono1974]

Thank you six guns it works great. Hope joomfish 2.05 will fix this.

[bergmannn]

Hi all...

the only way for my envoirment to fix the issues with sh404 and JF are these:

editing the mod_mainmenu helper file like described here:
http://www.joomfish.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=1568#p7430

rollback the language selection module to the one from the 2.0.RC package found here:
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomfish/

editing the .htaccess has NOT fixed anything on my envoirment...

Now my site (using latest releases of Joomla, JomFish and sh404 at this moment) is working fine...

I hope that in one of the next releases this issue can be fixed from team..

Regards

[spottedsparrow]

This worked for me as well. Thanks very much for posting.

Hi all...

the only way for my envoirment to fix the issues with sh404 and JF are these:

editing the mod_mainmenu helper file like described here:
http://www.joomfish.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=1568#p7430

rollback the language selection module to the one from the 2.0.RC package found here:
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomfish/

editing the .htaccess has NOT fixed anything on my envoirment...

Now my site (using latest releases of Joomla, JomFish and sh404 at this moment) is working fine...

I hope that in one of the next releases this issue can be fixed from team..

Regards

[julieh]

Thanks for the language selection module fix, Bergmannn.

I found another workaround that doesn't require editing the mod_mainmenu helper file.

1) Use the language selection module fix described by Bergmannn in the previous post.
2) Create a copy of the "Main Menu" in joomla's Menu Manager, then use the module for the COPIED menu instead of the one for "Main Menu".
3) Configure sh404SEF to insert the language code in the URL for ALL languages. (Components -> sh404SEF -> Configuration -> Languages tab -> Set "Insert language code in URL" to Yes for ALL languages, including the default).

Hope this helps someone,
Julie

[nigelbb]

It seems that there are many fixes for this well known incompatibility between sh404SEF & Joomfish that makes mainmenu items disappear when swicthing between languages. I really wish that one or other development team would accept this problem as their own & fix it. The other fixes & workarounds proposed involve reverting to an old version of Joomfish & hacking Joomla core modules (not a good idea as upgrades may overwrite your 'fix').

Using .htaccess to rewrite the incorrect URLs is the best workaround for the present time until the developers fix the problem properly. This workaround is simple & non-destructive works for me with English as the default language & French as the alternative. It depends on you using .htaccess rewrite so means that you must be running Apache as your webserver on some version of Linux/UNIX.

Many thanks to innoxed for the suggestion to use rewrite rules to workaround the problem. This is the entry in .htaccess that works for me with English as default & French as second language. Change the two letter language codes en-English & fr-French as required

Code: Select all

########## Joomfish fix
#
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/fr/.*
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !lang
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1?lang=en&{QUERY_STRING}

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !lang
RewriteRule .* /?lang=en&{QUERY_STRING}
#
########## End - Joomfish fix

[Excubitor]

I've been experiencing a lot of the same problems.
Joom!Fish with sh404SEF.

I've noticed when i replace the helper.php in /modules/mod_jflanguageselection to the helper.php from the RC version mentioned above that this solved only a part of the problem.
The home button was still an issue since my language went to "Default" and so my entire menu was "English" but i had chosen "Dutch". So this wasn't a good solution and so i changed the helper.php back to the latest Joom!Fish version.

I will explain how i solved the languages problems below.

I have a website with 5 different language and using English as the default.
Mydomain.com/en
Mydomain.com/nl
Mydomain.com/de
Mydomain.com/fr
Mydomain.com/es

My Joomfish configuration is as followed:
Plugin: System - Jfrouter
|- Enable Language determination Yes
|-Language selection for new visitors? Browser Settings
|-Use 302 redirect No
|-Save user language in a cookie Yes
|-Use SEF prefix Yes

To solve the problem i did the following:
Go into the Joomla adminstrator menu.
Then select -> Components -> JoomFish -> Translation
I choose a language in this example: Dutch

So i filter Joomfish by selecting by Languages: Dutch
Then i choose for Content Elements: Menus

Then i select "Home" from the list.

Set publish to "Yes".

Now start the translation:
Label: Name
Orignal: Home
Translation: Home

Label: Menu Alias
Orignal: home
Translation: home

Label params:
Parameters: default copy

Label: Link
Orignal: index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage
Translation: index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage

I wasn't able to change the translation to: index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=1&lang=nl&view=frontpage
So i thought this has to be the issue since i want to use this translation URL just like how the Language Switcher module works.


Repeat these steps for all languages.


To solve the Label: Link problem i went into PHPMyAdmin like someone else also referred to.
Make sure that you enabled all languages before going into PHPMyadmin this saves some time.

When you are in PHPMyadmin go to the table: jos_languages
Now write down the Language ID's.

Then go to the "table jos_jf_content" and search for: "frontpage"
You get a nice list with all the translations that you just made.

Now look at the Language ID and change the value according the language that you want:
Dutch: index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=1&lang=nl&view=frontpage
French: index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=1&lang=fr&view=frontpage
Spanish: index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=1&lang=es&view=frontpage

You can just leave the english default if you dont want the link to go to http://www.mydomain.com/en/

This isn't the easiest solution but it doesn't require replacing hardcoded files just the database that contains the translation information which can't be changed by default.

I hope this leads to a more permanent solution and that the developers can do something about this probably easy to fix bug.

:edit: fixed some typo's

[timvandevelde]

I've managed to get most errors fixed, but still have one problem.
You state you have the following urls:

mydomain.com/nl/
mydomain.com/en/ etc..

My default language is dutch, but the default homepage link is
mydomain.com/

If I type mydomain.com/nl/ I get a 404

How do you force the SEF prefix for the default language?

[Excubitor]

Got to the sh404SEF Configuration.
Make sure that you enabled the following options:

- Translate URL Yes
- Insert language code in URL Yes

And i translate all contents, modules etc. within Joom!Fish
So i even translate the already existing content to the same language with the Copy Button.
So for example my default language is English.
I go into Joom!fish -> Translation -> Choose "English" and you see "red" dots if it isn't translated.
Publish all content and just translate it by using the copy buttons.

Oh and before i forget, sometimes it helps to purge the sh404SEF urls.

I'm not sure if either solution solves your problem but it's worth a shot i guess.