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#41

Virtuemart Development and bug reports / [BUG] Category pagination — ca...

Last post by Gingerweb - July 13, 2026, 16:53:15 PM

Category pagination — cannot return to page 1 when SEF enabled (limitstart lost, session retains last page)

Version: VirtueMart 4.6.8 (11258), Joomla 5.4.6, PHP 8.x, Joomla core SEF enabled (no third-party SEF/router)
Summary:

On a category with more than one page of products, navigating to page 2 and then clicking the "1" (or "Start"/"Prev") pagination link does not return the visitor to page 1. The page reloads still showing page 2.
Steps to reproduce:

Enable Joomla SEF URLs.
Open a category with 2+ pages of products (default limit, e.g. 12 per page).
Click "2" — URL becomes /category/results,13-24, page 2 displays correctly.
Click "1" (or « / ‹).
Observed: browser navigates to the bare category URL /category and page 2 is still shown.
Expected: page 1 is displayed.

Root cause (traced):
Two interacting pieces of core code:

In administrator/components/com_virtuemart/models/product.php (setPaginationLimits), when the visitor is already within the same category/manufacturer, limitStart is read via getUserStateFromRequest() against a per-category session key (com_virtuemart.<view>c<cateid>m<manid>.limitstart). This only overrides the stored session value if limitstart is explicitly present in the request.

In components/com_virtuemart/router.php, the build routine only emits a results,X-Y segment when limitstart > 0. For page 1 (limitstart = 0) no segment is added, so the page-1 pagination link is generated as the bare category URL. Joomla's SEF router additionally strips limitstart=0 as it equals the default.

Result: the page-1 link carries no page position. When it loads, getUserStateFromRequest() finds no limitstart in the request and falls back to the session value, which still holds the offset for page 2 — so the visitor is stuck on page 2.

Note: This only reproduces with an active session already advanced past page 1. A fresh/cookieless request to /category/results,1-12 returns page 1 correctly, which is why it can look intermittent.

Suggested fix direction:
Either (a) have the router emit an explicit results,1-N segment for limitstart = 0 so the page-1 link isn't collapsed to the bare URL, or (b) in the category model, treat a request with no limitstart/start parameter as page 1 rather than inheriting the stored session offset.

[VmMediaHandler::$theme_url is never assigned, breaking the "no image" placeholder URL (front and admin)]

#42

Virtuemart Development and bug reports / [BUG] VmMediaHandler::$theme_u...

Last post by sirius - July 08, 2026, 10:07:41 AM

VmMediaHandler::$theme_url is never assigned, breaking the "no image" placeholder URL (front and admin)

Environment

• VirtueMart 4.6.8
• Joomla 5.4.6
• PHP 8.1 / 8.5

Summary
The static property

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VmMediaHandler::$theme_url is declared as

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null and is never assigned anywhere in the codebase (I checked both the site and administrator sides, including the legacy

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VmMedia class). Because of that, every "no image" placeholder built from it resolves to a broken URL that is missing the

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components/com_virtuemart/ segment.

Where it happens
In

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administrator/components/com_virtuemart/helpers/mediahandler.php:

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// line 45
static $theme_url = null;

// line 591, inside setNoImageSet()
$this->file_url_folder = self::$theme_url.'assets/images/vmgeneral/';

// line 736, inside getIcon()
$tC = self::$theme_url.'assets/images/vmgeneral/filetype_'.$this->file_extension.'.png';

// line 751, inside getIcon()
$file_url = self::$theme_url.'assets/images/vmgeneral/'.VmConfig::get('no_image_found');

Since

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$theme_url is always

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null, the concatenation collapses to just

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assets/images/vmgeneral/..., with the

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components/com_virtuemart/ prefix missing entirely.

Then in

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displayIt() (same file, around line 785):

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if( substr( $this->file_url, 0, 2) == "//"  or substr( $this->file_url, 0, 4) == "http" ) {
} else if($absUrl){
$root = JURI::root(false);
} else {
$root = JURI::root(true).'/';
}
...
$imageArgs['src'] = $root.$file_url;

On a shop installed at the domain root,

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JURI::root(true) returns an empty string, so

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$root becomes just

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/. The final

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src ends up as:

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/assets/images/vmgeneral/noimage_new.gif
instead of the correct:

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/components/com_virtuemart/assets/images/vmgeneral/noimage_new.gif
The correct path is confirmed elsewhere in core, for example in

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administrator/components/com_virtuemart/models/config.php (around line 222), which hardcodes:

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$dirs[] = VMPATH_ROOT.'/components/com_virtuemart/assets/images/vmgeneral';
Steps to reproduce

• Create or open a manufacturer with no logo assigned.
• Go to Manufacturer > Edit > Images tab.
• Inspect the placeholder image:
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  src="/assets/images/vmgeneral/noimage_new.gif", which 404s.

The same broken prefix affects any entity that falls back to

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setNoImageSet() or the

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getIcon() fallback (vendor, product, category, etc.) whenever no image/file is set, on both front and back end.

Suggested fix
Assign

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VmMediaHandler::$theme_url to

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'components/com_virtuemart/' (the same segment already hardcoded in

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config.php) at class init, or replace the direct use of

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self::$theme_url in

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setNoImageSet() and

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getIcon() with a call that returns that path directly, since the property is currently dead weight that is only ever read, never written.

Happy to test a patch on a staging VM 4.6.8 / Joomla 5.4.6 install if useful.

[Module]

#43

Frontend Modules / Re: VirtueMart Search Product ...

Last post by iWim - July 06, 2026, 07:58:22 AM

Open the VM search module.
Under tab Module set the option Search Filter Category to No.

#44

Frontend Modules / VirtueMart Search Product how ...

Last post by Emma Iana - July 05, 2026, 22:20:58 PM

How can I make VirtueMart Search Product search across all products rather than just the category in which the module is embedded?

#45

General Questions / Re: Google Merchant Center Pro...

Last post by p.barg - July 01, 2026, 12:04:15 PM

Hi,

we are using CVSI for the export of Google Feeds.

Best regards,

Petra

#46

General Questions / Re: Issues with add to Cart . ...

Last post by hotrod - June 30, 2026, 23:27:33 PM

I moved on to the J4 site I built 2 years ago..  No Issues..  Now I am going to work on moving to J5

#47

Installation, Migration & Upgrade / Re: Error after VM update

Last post by PRO - June 30, 2026, 21:26:06 PM

have you looked up if there is a duplicate? category_child_id

#48

General Questions / Re: Issues with add to Cart . ...

Last post by PRO - June 30, 2026, 16:37:17 PM

have you tested the default theme?

nobody can look without a url

#49

General Questions / Re: Google Merchant Center Pro...

Last post by PRO - June 30, 2026, 16:35:45 PM

Have you ever tried using schema ?

#50

Virtuemart Development and bug reports / Re: Google images showing my p...

Last post by hotrod - June 30, 2026, 13:42:05 PM

Thank You... Found this issue also drove me nuts...  ChatGPT made it very simple..  Here is the detailed info...

/public_html/components/com_virtuemart/sublayouts/snippets.php

Replace:

if ($finalstk != 0) {
    $stockog = 'InStock';
}
if ($finalstk == 0) {
    $stockog = 'OutOfStock';
}

with:

$stockog = 'InStock';

That's all you need.