menu not displayed

[csinger]

I have a form page. The form target is a php page that updates a database and executes the php header function to return to another page. I am using sessions to maintain the id of the logged in user. When the the system returns to the after update page, no menu is displayed but is before the database update. I can't seem to figure out why. Thanks for any help.

[Webdongle]

You have a page in Joomla that has a form which runs an external script to an external database ?

[csinger]

No it's the websites database.

[Webdongle]

But the script is a php file outside of Joomla ?
What menu item type calls the page ?

[csinger]

I am pretty sure my problem has to do with SEF. The if I use the form target
index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16&catid=2the page requested has 2 index.phps in the url. When I use ?option=com_content&view=article&id=16&catid=2 the url is correct and the menu is displayed. I really want to use the first form of the link, but can't find any setting to make that happen.

[Webdongle]

Is the file an external file that you are trying to return to Joomla with ? or is it a component ?

https://docs.joomla.org/Enabling_Search ... (SEF)_URLs might be what you are looking for.

btw
why not use the Menu title 'alias' as the url instead of the non sef url ?

[csinger]

I'm using the menu alias and it works great. Didn't think of this before your suggestion. Thanks.