By default the custom component can be seen under 'Extensions' menu at admin side. But how can I create my own menu at the top near to 'Extensions' menu like 'My Component' and show sub menu links under that?
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Are you talking about the same thing Community Builder do? If so, I was initially going to recommend looking through their code, but having looked at it myself I think differently :/– LodderCommented Apr 14, 2015 at 17:32
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@Lodder yes, you are correct. I am expecting a similar module. I refer the CB module and I see they have lots of code to achieve it. I thought there could be a simpler way to do and that's the reason of this question.– MalaiselvanCommented Apr 15, 2015 at 21:28
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We can develop an admin side component with the below code snippet.
mod_custommenu.php
$input = JFactory::getApplication()->input;
$menu = new JAdminCSSMenu;
$enabled = $input->getBool('hidemainmenu') ? false : true;
// Render the module layout
require JModuleHelper::getLayoutPath('mod_custommenu', $params->get('layout', 'default'));
The above code creates a menu object and load the default.php
default.php
$document = JFactory::getDocument();
$direction = $document->direction == 'rtl' ? 'pull-right' : '';
require JModuleHelper::getLayoutPath('mod_custommenu', $enabled ? 'default_enabled' : 'default_disabled');
$menu->renderMenu('menu', $enabled ? 'nav ' . $direction : 'nav disabled ' . $direction);
The above code will determine how the menu to be displayed. Either enabled or disabled.
default_disabled.php
$menu->addChild(new JMenuNode(JText::_('Menu'), null, 'disabled'));
The above code is just to display the greyed menu in case of disabled.
default_enabled.php
$menu->addChild(new JMenuNode(JText::_('Menu'), '#'), true);
$menu->addChild(new JMenuNode(JText::_('Menu1'), '', 'class:menu1'), 1);
$menu->addChild(new JMenuNode(JText::_('Menu2'), '#', 'class:menu2'));
$menu->getParent();
$menu->getParent();
The above code will add the menu and menu items.
You will need to override the admin template to do this.
There is a pretty detailed article here that describes how to do this. It was written for Joomla 2.5 but should also work for Joomla 3.0
http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/item/721-Customizing-the-Admin-Menu
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I'm pretty sure there must be an other way: Virtuemart 3 appears in the top menu after install.– KhaarkhCommented Apr 15, 2015 at 7:08
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They can do that by simply adding a template override during installation Commented Apr 16, 2015 at 8:31
I was doing it myself but now I use https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/admin-menu-manager