Home menu item doesn't work properly with Falang

**GK User** Thu Mar 05, 2015 10:47 am

Hi,
I'm having the same problem with the Home menu item (only with this item, all the others menu items works perfectly) as described here https://www.gavick.com/forums/creative-joomla25/problems-with-link-home-in-multilanguage-site-25841 I'm using storefront template (v. 3.15.1) and with this BIG difference from the post: I installed Falang, I usually use it and I find it very useful. So I didn't create a "home menu item" for each language, I simply translated it with falang. I see the problem in chrome (IE I haven't tried it but I don't mind).

The problem is like the one described in the post I mentioned: going back to the home page the user has 3 navigation options:
1) Through the Main Menu, clicking on "Home"
2) Through the logo of website
3) Via the "Breadcrumbs" clicking on "Home"

If the user is using the ES language is all ok (it's the default language).
If the user is using the FR language:
1) Through the Main Menu, clicking on "Home" the redirect is wrong to the home page in ES language
2) Through the logo of website, clicking on the logo the redirect is wrong to the home page in ES language
3) Via the "Breadcrumbs" clicking on "Home", clicking on "Home" the redirect is right to the home page in the correct language.

I have changed the logo.php script as suggested in the post by tieibite but nothing changed in my website :-(

I also removed the suffix frontpage for item id 640 (that correspond to the home menu item) and changed the home structure in order to have one article published in it but nothing changed.
So ... is it a problem of the template or is the Falang module that doesn't work properly? I've just updated my Joomla to 3.4 version and I had to update also FaLang component because it didn't work...
Maybe I can create another home menu item (a new one) in the default language and try to see if it works, but before doing it I would like to have your opinion. Or I can update the storefront template to the latest version 3.15.2 but I don't know if this will solve the problem.

I can give you the website details and access in a private message if you need to check it. I can also set admin language in english so you can check it easily, now it's in spanish.

Thanks and regards

**teitbite** Sat Mar 07, 2015 10:20 am

Hi

Please send me this access so I'll check. I will also need an ftp access to make fixes.

**teitbite** Tue Mar 10, 2015 8:52 pm

Hi

Sorry for dealy. I've checked Your site and looks like You are missing defined homepages for each language. Exactly like here: https://www.gavick.com/documentation/un ... joomla-1-7 but in translations and not as a separate menu items.

**teitbite** Tue Mar 10, 2015 9:06 pm

Hi

I've done some more tests after reading Your question if it's a tempalate or falang related. I simply switched to a default joomla template and I must say same problem exists there. But since I have one more thread with siilar problem, but without falang I would guess it's related to joomla. You may try to ask this question of joomla forum after trying the tip from my previous post.

**GK User** Wed Mar 11, 2015 7:24 pm

Hi,

I tried your tip but nothing.
So before writing to joomla forum I decided to turn off the SEF URL on global configuration and the Home menu works in all the languages, and the logo too. Now we know where is the problem.

But I want to use the url SEF and if I select YES, the home menu item and the logo link always to the home page pf spanish (the default language for frontend).

Any idea how to solve that? Or should I wrote to joomla forum?

Thanks.

**GK User** Thu Mar 12, 2015 8:46 am

BTW, I read this [url]github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/6194[/url] but I don't understand much...
So maybe it's a problem in Joomla 3.4

**teitbite** Fri Mar 13, 2015 4:36 pm

Hi

Yes this looks to be a joomla issue. I'm not sure if it's the exact problem mentioned on Github, but for sure it's language plugin which should detect the language and keep the param with it's tag there. Please write to joomla developers and let me know the url to thread so I'll be able to look into it too.