Template - Chooser cookie issue

[jbennert]

The accelerater does a great job - thank you it is worth the money.

I just did not figure out how I get the templatechooser working, so sitevisitors can change templates. I pasted jos_user_template cookie in the configuration for supported cookies but it does not seem to work this way. Then I tried the other option 'not to use the cache for this cookie'. But also not working. If a page was loaded with template A, also switching to template B will show same page with template A. I made sure accellerator cache and browser cache were cleared befor I made changes to the settings. I noticed every time there is a template change a new cookie of the name jos_user_template is created, so there could be 5 cookies of that name at the same time. Perhaps the previous jos_user_template cookie should be deleted when there is a template change, but it is not. If you could give me advice on what to do, or know a hack for the cookie handling of templatechooser - please let me know.

Thank you

[joomlatwork]

Can I take a look at your site to see the cookies generated? Please pass me a Joomla account through email: services-at-joomlawork.com

Regards,

Richard

[jbennert]

I mailed the URL to my site - please tell if you need more information.

Thank you

[joomlatwork]

Sorry but didn't received any email...

Richard

[jbennert]

Sorry, services-at-joomlawork.com got my first mail. It's not easy sending emails. 
Please check again.

Thank you

[jbennert]

I see - you gave me this adress 'services-at-joomlawork.com'. I now tried services-at-joomlatwork.com. 

[joomlatwork]

Have sent you the following email:

I think that I found the cause of the problem. The problem is not the cache component but the problem is within the template chooser self.  I've made an installation without the cache and the same problem occurs. Eitherway this works for me:
The cookies are set for the relative path that the user is on. This can you solve by editing the joomla.php (within the includes directory of the joomla installation). I made the following adjustments:
- on line 1233 the lifetime of the cookie is set to 60x10 (10 minutes!) I've increased it at my site to 24*3600 (1 day).
code:
$lifetime         = 3600*24;

Also the cookie should be set for the whole domain and not the relative paths. Therefore you must change the following line of code: line 1235 and line 1238 into:
line 1235: setcookie( 'jos_user_template', "$jos_change_template", time()+$lifetime, "/");
line 1238: setcookie( 'jos_user_template', '', time()-3600 , "/");

The "/" takes care that the cookie is set for the whole path. And not the relative paths

Please let me now if this works for you

Regards,

Richard

[jbennert]

Richard - it rocks!

It works - great, I am very happy you had this solution at hand. AND I am very impressed on your very quick response. Good job. I did not have this issue without the cache, but perhaps some other users. So your solution is the one and only.

Thank you very much - if I don't bother you the next two days - this issue is solved for me.