Wolverine,
Thank you for the speedy response. Yes, I am using CB Login.

I enabled dbug and this is the output on the forum link in joomla. The actual SMF installation went smoothly. I get absolultely no errors. I can log in to the SMF forum using the community builder users and passwords.

The is the result from dbug on the joomla page that should be showing the SMF forum.


Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in c:\documents and settings\hp_administrator\my documents\www\yaddayadda\components\com_smf\smf.class.php on line 990

Warning: main(/index.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in c:\documents and settings\hp_administrator\my documents\www\yaddayadda\components\com_smf\smf.php on line 114

Warning: main(): Failed opening '/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;C:\PROGRA~1\EASYPH~1\\php\pear\') in c:\documents and settings\hp_administrator\my documents\www\yaddayadda\components\com_smf\smf.php on line 114

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DEBUG

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Error loading search cache
Error loading replace cache
 SMF BUFFER ARRAYS EMPTY -- REBUILDING

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Error loading headers cache
Error loading keywords cache
Error loading css cache
loading headers SEARCH: /index.php?action=register
REPLACE: http://localhost/yaddayadda/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&Itemid=83&task=registers
STATUS: Not found in buffer

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SEARCH: /index.php?action=reminder
REPLACE: http://localhost/yaddayadda/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&Itemid=83&task=lostPassword
STATUS: Not found in buffer

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SEARCH: var smf_scripturl = "";
REPLACE: var smf_scripturl = ""; var jsmf_scripturl = "http://localhost/yaddayadda/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=76&";
STATUS: Not found in buffer

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SEARCH: option value="?board=
REPLACE: option value="board=
STATUS: Not found in buffer

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SEARCH: smf_scripturl + this.options[this.selectedIndex].value.substr(smf_scripturl.indexOf
REPLACE: jsmf_scripturl + this.options[this.selectedIndex].value.substr(jsmf_scripturl.indexOf
STATUS: Not found in buffer

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SEARCH: '/index.php' + this.form.jumpto.options
REPLACE: jsmf_scripturl + this.form.jumpto.options
STATUS: Not found in buffer

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SEARCH: <input type="hidden" name="hash_passwrd" value="" />
REPLACE: <input type="hidden" name="hash_passwrd" value="" /><input type="hidden" name="passwd" value="" />
STATUS: Not found in buffer

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SEARCH: this.passwd.value = this.passwrd.value; hashLoginPassword(this);
REPLACE: this.passwd.value = this.passwrd.value; this.passwd.value = this.passwrd.value; hashLoginPassword(this);
STATUS: Not found in buffer

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  time index ex time % elapsed %
Start 1163525248.69872900 - 0.00% - 0.00%
Link Replace from cache Start 1163525248.72482400 0.026095 50.12% 0.026095 50.12%
Link Replace from cache End 1163525248.72486800 0.000044 0.08% 0.026139 50.21%
Link Replace Start 1163525248.72488700 0.000019 0.04% 0.026158 50.24%
Link Replace End 1163525248.72515500 0.000268 0.51% 0.026426 50.76%
Stop 1163525248.75079200 0.025637 49.24% 0.052063 100.00%
total - 0.052063 100.00% - -

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at c:\documents and settings\hp_administrator\my documents\www\yaddayadda\components\com_smf\smf.php:117) in c:\documents and settings\hp_administrator\my documents\www\yaddayadda\index.php on line 228

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at c:\documents and settings\hp_administrator\my documents\www\yaddayadda\components\com_smf\smf.php:117) in c:\documents and settings\hp_administrator\my documents\www\yaddayadda\index.php on line 229

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at c:\documents and settings\hp_administrator\my documents\www\yaddayadda\components\com_smf\smf.php:117) in c:\documents and settings\hp_administrator\my documents\www\yaddayadda\index.php on line 230

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at c:\documents and settings\hp_administrator\my documents\www\yaddayadda\components\com_smf\smf.php:117) in c:\documents and settings\hp_administrator\my documents\www\yaddayadda\index.php on line 231

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at c:\documents and settings\hp_administrator\my documents\www\yaddayadda\components\com_smf\smf.php:117) in c:\documents and settings\hp_administrator\my documents\www\yaddayadda\index.php on line 232

The big problem solved! Thank you Wolverine. For those of you that read as carelessly as I do, page 8 of the brilliant Joomlahacks JSMF user guide, states that the absolute path can be found in the SMF directory under Server Settings. So, log into SMF forum admin area, and look under Server Settings. Copy and paste into the Joomla-SMF Forum Installation in Joomla. 


When I use the mod_cblogin, I log in using my admin user and password. I receive a message Incorrect Username or password. (Of course, the user and password are correct). Please try again. I press OK. I then see the community builder info, my avatar etc. I can edit my info, etc. I am logged in! Even though I receive the message that I have entered the incorrect user password.

I then proceed to logout by clicking the Logout button using mod_cblogin. I receive the message
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in c:\documents and settings\hp_administrator\my documents\www\yaddayadda\components\com_smf\smf.class.php on line 490
I can never log out.

I then go to the smf forum. I am not logged in. I log in with the same user and password that I tried above in mod_cblogin. I login without any problems.
I logout of the smf forum. At this point, I am logged out of the mod_cblogin as well.


In admin, I have the following settings (please see screenshots).

I reset my admin password in Joomla. I followed the exact same procedure as described above. Logged into Joomla using the mod_cblogin with new password. Same error. Wrong password, but I WAS ACTUALLY logged in.

I then proceeded to the SMF forum, tried logging in with the admin user and new password just I did with mod_cblogin. (Keep in mind, I am still logged into cblogin). I received the error in SMF Password Incorrect. Tried my old password (before I changed my Joomla admin password) and I logged into SMF successfully.

I logged out of SMF and it also logged me out of Joomla-cblogin.

Which tells me that the passwords are the same when logging in, but somehow working together when logging out!

To answer your specific questions:

I will do some research in regard to different collations of the tables. I do know that UTF-8 was an option that I DID NOT select.

I do not have alot of users. It is strictly test at this point. Have any thoughts on something we can try since we are in a test not ye live?

If I havent said so before, thank you for your help. I have been scratching my head over this a solid 24 hours.

I'm brainless sometimes.  Just checked the software and found that on an update from CB to SMF the password is disregarded.  That's probably why it didn't work. 

I will fix this but in the mean time set your password back to the original value.  I need to take a look and see what might be happening while you are logging in from CB.   

The reason it worked from SMF is that the validation is done a bit different due to the more complex way SMF handles logins.  I could go into details but just trust me in that SMF is doing most of the password validation.

I may need to take a look at your site and compare the passwords to see why it is failing.  Can you give me access?  just pm me if this is possible.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, well the fix for password update will be in RC3 but that doesn't explain why it isn't working.  pm me your email address and I may need to send you some files with greater debug enabled so we can get a clearer picture of the problem.