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[jamesbooker]

Virtuemart is great. OpenSEF is great. together they've been grand.

Problem is, whenever the user is currently viewing a virtuemart page (for example browsing a category) any links to non-virtuemart pages (eg links to com_content or com_contact) get a weird parameter that looks like a session ID attached to the end of the url. Here's an example:

If you navigate to this url: http://www.bookers-world.co.uk/shop/nintendo-gameboy/

and hover (or click) the 'about us' link (which is a static content item) or even the newsletter item (com_letterman) the url looks something like this:

http://www.bookers-world.co.uk/about-us.html?virtuemart=3f5d268bead9a96b9f76bb0a3a9d34e9

The ?virtuemart= parameter is the same during that session (if i look on another computer it changes, but stays the same until the session expires.)

When you're looking at a non-virtuemart page (for example after you've clicked the 'about us' link above) the session id ?virtuemart= disappears

I've posted on the openSEF forums here:

http://forum.j-prosolution.com/opensef-users/2663-how-stop-component-session-support.html

But they basically said 'we haven't implemented that yet. Virtuemart must be doing it.

Any ideas?
Thanks
james

[jamesbooker]

aha! Looks like it *is* either virtuemart or joomla doing it. I've got another site running mambo and phpshop (yes its old) and that tags ?phpshop= onto the end of the urls - extremely annoying and i think it's affecting my google placement!!

Any ideas?

[jamesbooker]

*bump*

[jamesbooker]

OK I've fudged a way around this problem:

The links were in my global navigation, and instead of using the joomla menus i actually hard-coded the links into my template.

Instead, i now use a 'second' mainmenu (the  real mainmenu is hidden because the virtuemart link still acts weird) and all the items are of the 'url' type (bottom right choice hen creating a new menu item) and put them as static links as before. But because they're a menu link rather than statically coded the session thing disappears!

Hope this helps anyone with the same troubles