amember 2.1.8pro and mamboserver 4.5

Ian?

Thanks for the reply.

Your site is nice - I couldn't tell it was pieced together at all!

Could you provide more details on what you mean.

Am I correct in that there are just two possible amember pages displayed to site visitors:
Join
Login / Forgot password

Therefore, I create custom Joomla/Mambo header and footer pages and reference these in both/all of the amember pages where the call for an amember header and footer now exists? I imagine I would keep everything except the footer code in the header, then get rid of any content refs there?

thanks.

Paperlion,

The following files are displayed publicly:

1. sendpass.html
2. member.html
3. signup.html

But member.html displays both the public login page and the private membership details page. There is also the members only profile.php page which was changed to match the site appearance.

Getting tight integration like this isn't rocket science but does require a lot of work to address everything including some custom Smarty code to ensure the menu items appear correctly. The basics are:

(i) design your Joomla site carefully using CSS as much as possible to drive animation/interactivity such as highlighting menu items

(ii) view source on your completed Joomla site:

(iii) copy and paste the entire head down to the main content start into the aMember header and then do similar for the footer starting at the main content end. In each case remember to check your links to images/css/js etc as they will be wrong in the aMember files;

(iv) if you have new menu items appearing for logged in members, these will need to be hard-coded into the aMember header.html file which means they will appear before a user has logged in. You then need to wrap them in Smarty code so they are not displayed before the user logs in;

(v) To get the best results I also needed to clean up the aMember html, including that created dynamically, to ensure I could style it all with css and then put those css commands into the main Joomla css file.

I hope that helps, Ian

Joomla Integration

I am having a heck of a time trying to solve the Joomla integration problem. It seems that I can add users via aMember; those users successfully get added to Joomla's database. I can use Joomla's login form to log in that particular user, but I cannot use aMember's login module to log that user into Joomla. On the other hand, when the aMember user logs in using aMember's medule, although the user cannot actually log into Joomla, that user gets recorded in aMembers logs as being logged in.

So, what is happening is that the Joomla login module is simply not communicating properly with Joomla.

Anyone have any insight into this??

Some thoughts

Log in using the aMember login module within your Joomla site, then in another window look in you Joomla admin section (home page) where all users logged into Joomla are listed. If the user is not listed as having been logged in then yes there could be something out of the ordinary going on.

If you are willing to PM me more on your site I can spend a short while looking through it today to see if anything jumps out.

Ianh

Thanks

Yes,
That's exactly what I did, and the user is not getting logged in. I will PM you a message if you don't mind. Right now, the site is basically a generic Joomla site- I was testing on another server and I'm getting ready to build the official one- this is my hang-up

I have left both logons (the standard Joomla one and the aMember one) on the Home page so you can see the difference when you log in using the two different methods.

I have a few protected areas to test- the Joomla license and at the very top, the items that say Arthroplasty and Trauma are protected sections for testing.

I will PM you details on a user account and password.

Thanks a lot.

User cannot edit content

I have just learned that if one logs in using aMember's login module, the user cannot edit or contribute content. Is this issue something that can be fixed?