I knew this to be coming or much to the point, the case; they are going to ignore this problem; why, I have no idea; maybe they can not come up with another fix besides the one I offer and do not want to use it; perhaps they are going to replace the component with a new one; these Joomla Core members are very bright people; never know what (or why) they are thinking of; if you know what I mean.
I decided to spend a little more time to make sure I can show the Bug still exist; so I setup two sites; one with the fix one without it; it is very obvious the bug exist; so the question begs; how do we get them to acknowledge it and fix it. Fixing it isn't the problem; it seems to me the patch dose that fine.
We can open a new bug report, I'll take some time tomorrow and do just that. I thought about opening up a new thread; but this one seems to get some support; so I though it best just to ride this one out; since it is the same problem and hasn't gone away; in fact it seem like this bug is here to stay.
Since posting this I submitted this as a new bug report sighting this tread and closed bug report, the summary title is "Web link Router incorrectly grabs wrong category item"; hopefully they will post it soon.
This is what it said:
This is not a new bug but a closed bug that still exist.
I'm opening a new bug report and I have invested a lot of time to prove that this bug is verified and can be duplicated. I setup two web sites in order to prove this. The first one
http://zenjoomla.com/weblinksbugmainmen ... gmenu.html has a fresh install of Joomla and fully documents how I created the Web links and shows the bug; the second site is
http://zenjoomlatemplates.com/weblinksb ... gmenu.html, it has a patch installed that fixes this bug; it is free without any reservations and I'm hoping you will use it to fix this issue; or at least it will give you an idea how to fix it.
The problem is this: at the start of the function it gets a menu item and then grabs a category to links it to; which is always the first category; if you have more than one category this will always fail; as you can see by my example. What I have done in the patch was to locate the correct category to tie the menu item too. It is clear that the programmer only tested this with one category.
There are at least two forum threads and one bug report that has been closed, this is the thread I got involved in:
web links SEF URLs display incorrect category name
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f ... 0#p1560820
This was the closed bug report
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla ... m_id=12150.
You may contact me and I will assist you in any way I can.
Confirmation:
Joomla! 1.5.x Bug Tracker item #14705, was opened at 2009-01-23 22:23:34
Jeff