How do I make Easyblog use SCLogin instead of Joomla

Dear Alex,

I want to require all visitors to my site to register or log in to read my materials. When I configure Easyblog to require registered users to read the full blog post, they are redirected to the standard Joomla Login screen, not the SCLogin screen. Can you tell me where and how to configure this?

Thanks in advance.

Spike

Dear Alex,

I guess maybe a different way of asking this question is this: Is there a way I can make sure the SCLogin features show up on the default Joomla login in page. Didn't the older version used to do that?

Now this is weird. When I click on a blog title, I'm redirected to the standard Joomla login page. If I try to log in with a non-registered user name, I get the error message that the user name is not registered but at the bottom of the log in page are the SCLogin buttons! I want them to show up the first time the user is sent to this page.

Dear Alex,

What would that redirect code for the .htaccess file look like?

I have sh404SEF installed. Is that what you mean by a separate SEF extension.

Which would you say is the preferable method?

Spike

Dear Alex,

You are always so helpful. You have the best customer service of any extension I have ever used. I really appreciate your help.

Lets forget about EasyBlog log in for just a moment and focus just on the core Joomla login and JFBConnect.

When I enable the core Joomla login module and assign it to a position on my home page, I get the same behavior I was previously attributing to the EasyBlog login, namely, when you are first redirected to log in to read an EasyBlog entry, the log in form looks like a traditional Joomla log in page with no JFBConnect buttons. But if you enter a non-existent user name and you get the subsequent no user name error message with the JFBConnect buttons showing.

I'm getting the same behavior whether I arrive at the log in page by clicking on an EasyBlog title or if I try to log in using the basic Joomla log in module.

So before I go tearing into any EasyBlog code I wanted to explore the basic Joomla log in module and determine why the JFBConnect buttons don't show up when a visitor arrives at that page to register but only show up after a non-existent user tried to log in.

The Joomla log in module is published on the home page for you to test out.

Thanks in advance for any guidance.

Sorry, sorry, sorry, I'm getting ahead of my self. I guess I still want to find a way to have the social buttons appear in the initial log in page from EasyBlog after all. I forgot how that screen pops up until I was retracing my steps.

Their technical support said this was the code I was supposed to modify if I want to redirect to the SCLogin module but I can't really decipher what do do with it.

if( $my->id <= 0 && $config->get( 'main_login_read' ) )
{
$mainframe->redirect( EasyBlogRouter::_( 'index.php?option=com_easyblog&view=entry&id=' . $blogId . '&layout=login' , false ) );
$mainframe->close();
}

As for my previous post, I guess it wouldn't make sense to have the JFB Social Buttons appear on the registration page since the user has already passed up a chance to log in with the Social buttons in the first place and clicked on Register.

I hope you can make sense of this.

Spike

Dear Alex,

Thank you so much for your suggestions. When a user clicks on a blog entry when they are not logged in they are redirected to the Joomla login where they can see the JFBConnect integration. It looks very nice. However, there seems to be some snippet of code that inserts what looks like the old Linked In Login logo right after the fancy new Linked In button. I can't seem to figure out where that is coming from.

Spike