Membership errors when using redirects

6 posts by 2 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder: Plugins & Add-ons
Last Post: June 9, 2010   (RSS)

By (Deleted User) - June 5, 2010

Hello,

I have a blog detail page using the page /blog-entry.php
All blogs use custom keywords in the url followed by the blogs num

For example, the original url would be:
/blog-entry.php?healthy-living-4

For SEO benefits I have the following htaccess rewrite:

Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^blogs/([^\.]+)$ blog-entry.php?id=$1 [NC,L]

this then allows the following url to see the blog:

/blogs/healthy-living-4

This works great and I have seen a significant increase in seo benefits because of this.
However now I would like to use the membership plugin and I am coming up against a small problem. Logs in as expected but when I want to log OUT it doesn't work - I have tried it on the original full url and it works so it's my rewrite that is doing it!

Here is the code for the log out link:

<?php if ($CURRENT_USER): ?>
<li id="logoff_link"><a href='?action=logoff'>Logoff</a></li>
<?php else: ?>
<li id="login_link"><a href="#login_wrapper">Login</a></li>
<?php endif ?>

Any ideas?

Thanks Jono

Re: [jonoc73] Membership errors when using redirects

By Jason - June 7, 2010

Hi Jono,

Since your rewrite is only for blog-entry.php, why not have a separate file that is just for logging off, like "log_off.php" You just have the "viewer_functions.php" at the top of the page, you can change your link to this:

<?php if ($CURRENT_USER): ?>
<li id="logoff_link"><a href='log_off.php?action=logoff'>Logoff</a></li>
<?php else: ?>
<li id="login_link"><a href="#login_wrapper">Login</a></li>
<?php endif ?>

That way it shouldn't interfere with your rewrite. Give this a try and let me know if you run into any other issues.

Hope this helps.
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Re: [Jason] Membership errors when using redirects

By (Deleted User) - June 8, 2010

Jason.

All the other pages on the site will allow the visitor to log off and stay on the same page. Is there a way I can code it so that if they log off a rewritten page like the blogs page to go back to the page it was on - but as logged off?

I am planning to have rewrites on a number of other pages and it could get messy.

Thanks Jono

Re: [jonoc73] Membership errors when using redirects

By Jason - June 9, 2010

Hi,

The issue was that with the rewritten url, our logoff link looked like this:

http://www........../blogs/blog-one-1?action=logoff

which wouldn't work correctly. What I did was created a script in a page called logoff.php. All it does is handle the logoff, then immediately redirect the user back to the page they were at previously.

I also changed the include file "nav-top.php" so that the logoff link always points to that file.

Hope this helps.
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Re: [Jason] Membership errors when using redirects

By (Deleted User) - June 9, 2010

Fantastic - once again I'm bowled over by the great support you give.

What other company would be willing to log into your server and create the necessary files and correct any problems - brill just BRILL!

Thanks Jason!

Jono