URL to your eFiction: http://archive.starwarschicks.com
Version of eFiction: 3.5
Have you bridged eFiction, if so with what?: No
Version of PHP: 5.2.5
Version of MySQL: 4.1.22
Have you searched for your problem: Yes, this has been an issue for a very long time!
If so, what terms did you try: category link
State the nature of your problem:
Both the Categories Panel links and the Category: link in the Story listing point to
http://archive.starwarschicks.com/browse.php?type=categories&catid=1
which takes you to the category main page, because the actual story listing by category is
http://archive.starwarschicks.com/browse.php?type=categories&id=1
This has been an issue for some time. See the following threads:
https://efiction.org/forums/index.php?topic=6347.0 Category links on index are going directly to category main page.
https://efiction.org/forums/index.php?topic=6621.0 Category links on index are going directly to category main page. (Same topic, different thread)
https://efiction.org/forums/index.php?topic=6192.0 3.4.2 bug: Link goes to the wrong page.
[Solution]
According to Tammy in this thread: https://efiction.org/forums/index.php?topic=6192.0
The id link is correct. So the question is what took you to the catid link?
Using that note, I changed the links to point to "id" rather than "catid", which solves the problem. You need to edit the following:
/blocks/categories/categories.php line 44
/blocks/categories/categories.php line 67
/browse/categories.php line 57
/includes/corefunctions.php line 495
In each, change
browse.php?type=categories&catid=
to
browse.php?type=categories&id=
You should take the BBC code out of the stuff in the code tags so it doesn't confuse the newbies. : )
Incidentally, I don't have this problem at all on my test site, which is at 3.5.
http://efictiontest.verilyviridian.com/browse.php?type=categories&catid=1
If I change the URL to id=1, it's the same as http://efictiontest.verilyviridian.com/browse.php?type=categories.
Did you try itanshi's fix in that one thread you linked? It seems easier.
You should take the BBC code out of the stuff in the code tags so it doesn't confuse the newbies. : )
Whoops, didn't catch that. Fixed now. Thanks.
That's odd. I wonder if yours works because you only have 1 category. Everyone I've seen that's having the issue has more than one category. Whatever the reason, something funky is going on. 😕
LOL, just edited my post. This is what I said:
Did you try itanshi's fix in that one thread you linked? It seems easier. That's the one where you say Tammy provides a fix, down at the bottom.
Yeah, I just added another category, and nothing changed. And the live site, at 3.4.3 (which should be affected, since it goes back aways) isn't affected either.
What modules and blocks do you have installed/initialized?
Yes, I did try the fix suggested by itanshi in the 3rd thread. It did not fix the issue, which I found odd. It didn't break it either, which I found even odder.
That's why I went the other way and changed the links to match, because I couldn't get the story list by category link to change to "catid".
Blocks I'm using: skinchange, search, random, categories, login, news, recent, info, featured, menu.
I do not have any modules installed.
So that's just the basic ones, then. That's really odd. Unless maybe one of the modules I've got actually fixes the issue.
Or possibly it might have to do with PHP 5? I have 4 on both my servers.
you know what's weird? The fix is still applied to my old install and I could not reproduce the problem.
I installed the new 3.5 on another server, quite fresh. I was unable to reproduce the problem.
The code where ID was changed to CatID as mentioned in my initial bug report for 3.4.2 is exactly the same from my modification to the updated 3.5 code. I suspect this is why I am unable to reproduce problems in either install.
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Maybe I was testing wrong before, but this is so still a problem.
http://fanforge.net/browse.php?type=categories&catid=187
Click the category title and yeah wrong location.
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Seems to be working now in 3.5.1.
