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In module development, I'm using a field for menu item (from these docs https://docs.joomla.org/Menuitem_form_field_type). I can work out to to show the menu item in the XML:

<field name="menuitem1" type="menuitem" default="45" label="Select a menu item" description="Select a menu item" />

I can then echo this for the frontend:

<a href="<?php echo $params->get('menuitem1');?>" >

But this only shows the ID of that menu item, how can I set it to be the actual URI for the menu item selected?

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You can get the URL using the following:

$itemid = $params->get('menuitem1', 0);

$app = JFactory::getApplication();
$menu = $app->getMenu();
$link = $menu->getItem($itemid)->link;

echo JRoute::_($link);

$link will provide you with a non-SEF URL, then as shown above, you can use JRoute to convert it to a SEF URL.

Hope this helps

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  • You're welcome :)... I was just going to say, there shouldn't be an error :)
    – Lodder
    Commented Jun 22, 2015 at 16:15
  • Oddly, there's an error shown when linking to the same page - but only a 'Notice' - gone after clearing the cache.
    – RustyJoomla
    Commented Jun 22, 2015 at 16:16

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