Hi

Thanks for the reply.  The recipe is still not working for me, strange as the other recipe is working fine on the entry page.  I did what you said and entered code to debug.  You can see the message on link provided and also pasted below (just in case I have to remove before you read this reply).

Is there supposed to be a big gap in front of "catid" because ID and task do not have this gap?

index.php?option=com_sobi2&sobi2Task=sobi2Details&__%20%20%20%20catid=5&sobi2Id=1&Itemid=24

The entry is in only one category.  What do you think is causing the problem?

Sorry I am new to this and also cannot understand PHP

Thank you, thank you so much for your help

DEBUG Message:

Page Identification
The PHP code below may be used to help MetaMod to identify the exact page that you are viewing. For help using this feature, please click here.
if (
$option == 'com_sobi2'
and $Itemid == NULL
and JRequest::getVar('sobi2Id') == '1'
and JRequest::getVar('______catid') == '5' /*!*/
and JRequest::getVar('sobi2Task') == 'sobi2Details'
) return XXX; /* replace XXX with the module ID or position to display */
Note: lines starting with "and" and ending with /*!*/ contain rules that may be optional. You may wish to leave them out.
MetaMod debug info:
Module ID: 47
$option: com_sobi2
$view:
$id:
$Itemid: 24
$timezone: default
$language: en-us
$language_code: en
$language_region: us
Array ( [0] => 8 ) Including modules:

Thank you for helping me, it is very much appreciated.

I am getting that link directly from my browser and you are right it is showing malformed there with big gap before catid - what could be causing this do you think?

The recipe I am using includes category 8 - you can see my code below.  You are right Category 8 is a child of category 5.  Would this cause problems with the recipe I am using?  The entry is only assigned to one category though, which is 8.

if ( $option == "com_sobi2" and JRequest::getVar('sobi2Task') == 'sobi2Details' ) {
  $catid = JRequest::getVar( 'catid' );
  if ( $catid == 5 ) return 48; /* replace XXX with the module to use for SOBI2 category 5 */
  if ( $catid == 6 ) return 48; /* replace YYY with the module to use for SOBI2 category 6 */
  if ( $catid == 7 ) return 53; /* replace ZZZ with the module to use for SOBI2 category 7 */
  if ( $catid == 8 ) return 48; /* replace ZZZ with the module to use for SOBI2 category 8 */
}

Sorry I'm not sure what I am doing wrong - I got the other recipes to work ok but maybe the nested category thing is causing issues for this one?

Let me know

Thanks again for helping

Ok it's not the breadcrumb hack - all works fine when clicking entry title or icon to view details view page.  The problem is the read more link, I found a code for this in the SOBI forum and this is what is causing the malformed URL. 

I know you are not from SOBI but if you do know why the read more link code below may be causing the malformed URL then it would be great if you can tell me.  You are a great Joomla master so maybe you can easily see why it could be doing this.  If not thanks again for all your help, very much appreciated

Your module will be very useful to my projects so I will be using and donating regularly.  Read more link code below:

  <div class="tour_readmore">
<?php
$catid = (int) sobi2Config::request($_REQUEST, 'catid', 0);
$config =& sobi2Config::getInstance();
$link = sobi2Config::sef("index.php?option=com_sobi2&sobi2Task=sobi2Details&
    catid={$catid}&sobi2Id={$id}&Itemid={$config->sobi2Itemid}");
?>
<a href="<?php echo $link ?>">View Details...</a>
  </div>

THANKS

(note: on my browser the "all in one line" version gets split after the "?". But it should all be one line with no spaces in the part inside the quotes)