Category Filter for SermonCast

www.crosswayonline.org/index.php?option=...t=raw&sermon_cat=105 should do it, but for some reason it doesn't work on your site. The filters are just ignored.
There is a small bug I know which would give this behaviour if the "&format=raw" parameter is missing. SermonSpeaker then would create a redirect including this parameter, but drop the category and type parameters. But in your case it shouldn't do this.

Can you tell me if you're using the latest release of SermonSpeaker? Also I would be interested in your Joomla version and SEF settings used. Maybe you're also using a 3rd party SEF extension?

I'm using Joomla 2.54 and sermon speaker package 4.4.3. The sermon cast is 4.4.0

I do have SEF turned on.

Thanks

That's strange. I just tried it on several websites I run and it works everywhere with the same releases.
For now you can ignore the sermoncast module. All it does is creating a link with this URL for you:
www.crosswayonline.org/index.php?option=...t=raw&sermon_cat=105

This should work in all cases, except if you have some extension installed which fiddles with URLs, like 3rd party SEF extensions or similar stuff.

After looking at your page now, I see that you output an SQL statement. Interesting enough this statement has the sermon category 105 in it, but it doesn't change if I use &sermon_cat=33 which it should. Maybe it's a cache problem? Do you have caching turned on? If so whith which settings?

I have tried turning off all server caching mechanisms and clearing browser cache - it still returns the same data set? I was echoing the query from models/feed.php. Is this the query that is used?

I have tried to run that query against the database with odd results - it simply returns the demo sermon that has been deleted? obviously something wrong in my test run.

Any other thoughts?

Thomas could it be server cache? on my brothers site, i make a change and it takes like 15-30 minutes for it to show up.

Hello,

I spoke to soon in my previous post - The issue is caching. After turning off the Joomla cache in global config-> system, the page refreshes. Not sure why it didn't start behaving that way immediately after turning off the cache. In any case, now it works.

Is this normal behavior - Can I disable cache for the feed without having to disable the global Joomla cache?

Thanks