[Not a JF bug] Lang. prefix doesn't work for def. menu item

[rtv]

Despite using SEF-prefix (Joomla 2.0beta2) the "Home" link points to mydomain.com instead of mydomain.com/sv/, all other links include the sv prefix - is this a bug or am I missing something?

(I'm using 302 redirect and no cookies)

[ivo.apostolov]

This is expected behaviour. Anyway if you try entering mysite.com/sv.html it will open the frontpage in Swedish.

[rtv]

Ok, so I must use cookies as well (in addition to 302 redirect)?

The problem is when a user enters mydomain.se (and expects the swedish web page) he/she gets redirected to mydomain.com/sv (which will be in swedish), but if the user then clicks the default menu item he might see an entire different language based on the browser settings. Isn't the point of using 302 redirect that cookies shouldn't be needed? Once the language has been determined (either through cookie or url/subdomain) shouldn't the language stick with the user unless he/she purposely changes the url/language?

If the behavoiur is supposed to work as you describe, I must say it seems a bit strange; it would be like going to http://sv.mydomain.com/ and when clicking the default menu item get redirected to http://mydomain.com/ (which I suppose don't happen).

By the way, thanks for a great component and all your hard work!

[rtv]

Do you (or Geraint perhaps) know where I can fix this, since in my opinion the "expected behaviour" is incorrect?

[ivo.apostolov]

Well, you didn't mention preliminary that you were using 302 redirect.

[rtv]

I thought I did:

(I'm using 302 redirect and no cookies)

[caro84g]

This is not a Joom!Fish bug, I apologize for any inconvenience.

The behavior is defined in the Joomla Core (mod_mainmenu).

To keep the language prefix for the default menu item as well, change the following:

In modules/mod_mainmenu/helper.php on row 351, replace:

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$tmp->url = JURI::base();

to

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$tmp->url = str_replace(array($tmp->route.'/', $tmp->route), '', JRoute::_( $tmp->url ));

I'm not sure this works in all cases, but it solves my problem. If SEF is off, the link will point to /index.php?component=com_pa_content&view=frontpage (or your specified target), which some might think is ugly - but I use SEF on so it's not a problem .

Edit: Corrected the code

[Geraint]

Thanks for the insight.

Another possible solution is to use the subdomain approach to language determination then the redirect would go to http://en.domain.com or http://fr.domain.com etc.

Geraint

[rtv]

I just corrected the code above, my previous try didn't work.