PP shows Login & Register links after logged in

[Happy Camper]

I am in the process of integrating vb3.0.3 with a brand new installation of Photopost. I think i finally got the navbar and footer issues taken care of but I have 2 problems.

First Problem:
In the vB navbar it says the typical

Welcome, Username. Your last visit was...

But just below the vB navbar is the PP navbar and it says

Home · Search · Register · Login

Obviously I am logged in because it says so in the vB navbar. how can i make the pp navbar reflect my status?


Second Problem
So i think i changed all the relative URL's in the vB navbar to absolute paths. Things are still fine on the vB side but when i go to PP the arrows for "Search" and "Quicklinks" are gone as well as their ability to produce the "drop-down" search box or menu. How can I get this feature back into my navbar?

I think that's it for now. Can't wait to start driving this thing! It seems so much better than my previous choice of gallery software.

Check it out here:
http://eslhq.com/esl_photos
http://eslhq.com/esl_forums
ID: test1234
PW: test1234

Eric

[Chuck S]

You need to align your cookies Make sure the domain name is the same and in photopost cookie settings set the cookie prefix to bb and enter your Vb License number in the Photopost config

If your arrows are not showing up then in the Style editor in VB make sure the stylevar images misc path is a full url to such images

[Happy Camper]

thanks for the quick response!

I am pretty sure I have all my cookie info lined up.
VB
cookie path: "/"
cookie domain "" (empty)
cookie prefix "bb"

PP
cookie path: "/"
cookie domain "" (empty)
cookie prefix "bb"

Something is a little strange as well. Sometimes PP shows that i am logged in and other times it doesn't... Sometimes it says there is an unregistered user browsing when really its me(the admin) and sometimes it displays the info correctly.

About the white arrows, I looked at the navbar code being produced on my PP page and there is not even an <img> tag that would call that image. so i understand why there is no image there but where did the <img> tag go?

Thanks
eric

[Chuck S]

I show the login synced up however you might be using only the session cookie not true cookies if you do not click the remember me box and I posted on this forum an updated vb3.php file that helps with this.

http://www.photopost.com/members/for...d.php?t=110566

There is most certainly an image there it is looking for http://www.domain.com/forum/images/misc/menu_open.gif

If you edit your VB style and make the path to images/misc to a full url as I stated you should be fine

[Happy Camper]

License number is good. Starts with an L and followed by 7-8 more alphanumerics.

I just uploaded the new vb3.php file and i will check it out.

About the arrows, i copied and pasted the code that the navbar within photopost created. there are no <img> tags

Content visible to verified customers only.

Strange?

[Happy Camper]

::Update::
Looks like the new vb3.php took care of the problems i was having with login/logout. Thanks, That was perfect.

Now i just need to generate the <img> tags on the navbar to create the drop down menus for Search and Quicklinks. Did you take a look at the page to see what could be happening?

ERic

[Chuck S]

They will not display if you do not have them done right

In fact look at your menu image

http://eslhq.com/esl_forums/http://e...bits_start.gif

You have not edited your header include template either to get rid of relative paths.

In that file is the stylevar call

Here is a proper template for you headinclude for vb3

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=$stylevar[charset]" />
<meta name="generator" content="vBulletin $versionnumber" />
<meta name="keywords" content="$vboptions[keywords]" />
<meta name="description" content="$vboptions[description]" />

<!-- CSS Stylesheet -->
$style[css]
<if condition="is_browser('opera')">
<style type="text/css">
ul, ol { padding-left:20px; }
</style>
</if>
<!-- / CSS Stylesheet -->

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var SESSIONURL = "$session[sessionurl]";
var IMGDIR_MISC = "http://eslhq.com/esl_forums/images/misc";
// -->
</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://eslhq.com/esl_forums/clientscript/vbulletin_global.js"></script>
<if condition="$show['popups']"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://eslhq.com/esl_forums/clientscript/vbulletin_menu.js"></script></if>

[Happy Camper]

Awesome! Thanks a ton. That seemed to get everything working properly.

One last question, was I correct in making the links in the navbar absolute path links instead of relative? same for the footer?

eric