checkout http://www.sunshinewalls.com for a look

When I’m on the parent product the URL is fine, but when I select a child product the URL goes back to the ugly default Joomla/VirtueMart style with no SEF at all. Plus the links in the breadcrumb are not correct, each link acts as those it’s the base, no parent category link.

I tried adding your hack but it didn’t help.

You can see the problem at the following:
http://nichelabs.com/_production/MatTech/Anti%20Fatigue%20Mats/Kitchen-Anti-Fatigue-Mats.html

If you select a “type of mat” you’ll notice the change is the URL and then look at the links for each stage of the breadcrumb and you’ll notice they are incorrect as well.

Hence, the problem is between virtuemart and sh404sef.

I tried to put in your hack as following in com_virtuemart.php.

// —————— load language file – adjust as needed —————————————-

$shLangIso = shLoadPluginLanguage( ‘com_virtuemart’, $shLangIso, ‘_PHPSHOP_LIST_ALL_PRODUCTS’);

// —————— load language file – adjust as needed —————————————-

// [HACK] -> bypass this file if we’re making an ajax request
$only_page = JRequest::getInt(‘only_page’,0);
if($only_page == 1) return;
// [/HACK]

After that when I try to select the child product, I found that it still redirect to the new sef url in firebug.I tried to clear all the sef url and tried again, but the result is the same.

Please kindly advise whether I did anything wrong on applying your hack. You can try to access the page as following.

http://www.fashion-clicks.com/Order-Now/Women-s-Clothing/Clothing-Accessories/Elegant-Ribbon-Satin-Shining-Belt.html

I took a look at your site and it seems the extra images don’t show up because they are using a relative url (i.e. “images/stories/tee_images/t_heyman_backside_small.jpg” ). Since sh404 is building sef urls, the browser is trying to load an image at “/Woman-s-Boutique/T.-Heyman-Tees-Real-Men-Call/images/stories/tee_images/t_heyman_backside_small.jpg”, which doesn’t exist.

I can also see (in Firebug) an error saying “Lightbox is not defined” but I have a hunch it will be fixed if you get the extra images loaded properly.

One way to do this would be to find the point in your template where the extra images html is generated and add a forward slash (/) to the beginning of the image path. This is what’s happening the first time you load the page.

As for the breadcrumbs, you could probably put a condition in your flypage that will leave out the child product title.

Bear in mind that I can’t see your code, so I’m just making a few educated guesses.

I hope that helps. Let us know how you get on.

The store is at http://www.pitchinforagoodcause.org/index.php/buy-gkr-souvenirs.html.
Take a look specifically at the womens boutique, chose a shirt size and watch what happens. I don’t want it to do that – insert the attribute name into the breadcrumb, break the breadcrumb and break the links/lightbox to the detail images.

I also don’t want to loose the child products so the client can keep a more accurate inventory.

My developer tried your work around but it didn’t change anything. Do you have another suggestion?