Questions tagged [menu-item]

In Joomla! Menu Items are used as part of a menu, to create pages, that load a pre-defined type of content determined by the Menu Item Type. Those pages will be accessible by a static URL (menu-item alias), that we can specify while creating the menu item. Menu Items also hold layout and presentation information about the page (e.g. show/hide page titles, images, template options for a page, and more).

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PHP type error on creating admin menu item

When I try to create an admin menu item in Joomla 5 (I imagine the same will apply to Joomla 4), I get this error: An error has occurred. 0 strlen(): Argument #1 ($string) must be of type string, ...
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Try to make ACY Mailing newsletter archive view look more like a blog

I am using ACY to create and send newsletters - I am using their "menu newsletter archive view" ([https://www.beeswaxcandleshop.com/home/newsletters/archive/listing.html]) - The page looks ...
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My script doesn't work on joomla 4

I used this simple php gallery from a folder on my Joomla 3 site. Now I'm getting ready to do an update to Joomla 4 and I noticed that I have a problem with displaying images from the directory. if I ...
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J4 default page from CiviCRM extension not working

It seems that it is not possible to set a menu item from the CiviCRM extension for Joomla as the default page in J4. Or rather when the website is visited there is no content, while the menu item is ...
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How to add separators / dividers in Joomla 4 Custom Components (Sub-)Menu?

There are these nice loking seperators / dividers in the core content component's menu: I've tried already to add the following in my XML without success: <menu class="divider">sep&...
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Joomla 4 Alias Menu loses original menu class

In J4, I have a menu item (in main menu) loading a single article and I've added a unique class via the menu Page Display >> Page Class. It has an alias of "commercial" and when used ...
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URL System Links not working

I don't know if this is a bug or if this is something new with Joomla 4, but any help would be greatly appreciated. In Joomla 2 and 3, I would create menu items of the URL System Links type that sent ...
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Itemid not retrieved from modal

I have a regular way of returning to the menu item originated from by using the following in the controller of my component: $menu = Factory::getApplication()->getMenu()->getActive(); $...
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Custom Component - Frontend Menu Item incorrect link

While creating my Custom Component i'm struggeling now on creating menu items for my views. The views are available via "/index.php?option=com_mycomponent&view=items" or "/index....
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Custom admin menu creation - parent_id and level values are resetting to zero

I want to programmatically create some admin menu items for my component and I'm most of the way there, but I can't seem to set the hierarchy for them. I am wanting three menu items - one as the ...
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Retrieve Active Menu link in Controller (frontend - Joomla4)

I'm trying to do a "quick" fix to J3 components so they work in J4 until I can re-code in the new structure ready for J5. Now that I've set the scene, I'm stumbling on getting the Menu URL ...
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Filter Categories in Tagged Items Menu Item Type

I'm making a menu to retrieve all articles that have certain tags and are from a certain category using "Tagged Items" menu item type, I managed to get all articles that have certain tags, ...
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Show 'menuitem' field name in frontend of module

I have the following XML in my module params: <field name="menulink" type="menuitem" default="45" label="Select a menu item to show" description="Select ...
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New menu is on wrong menu index page

I have a Joomla 3.9.24 site on which my mainmenu list has 4 pages. The mainmenu has 5 top-level menu entries (including Home) with variable numbers of submenus. I have some single-article menu items ...
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Get the link to the item in the backend edit view of that item

Let me explain. I have created a custom component, when editing the element and saving it once, I would like to display next to the alias the sef frontend link to this element. Here is a screenshot to ...
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Will deleting a menu option delete the page that it links to?

I have inherited our Bowling centre's website from my previous manager and have found quite a mess of various menus which we do not need any more. These menus refer to the annual tournament we ...
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Creating a menu using php

I'm trying to create a menu item in joomla 3.x using php I've been trying to get this code to work: $menuItem = array( 'menutype' => 'client-pages', 'title' => "new Menu", '...
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SchuWeb Sitemap includes Noindex Pages

I am using Joomla v3.9.19 along with SchuWeb Sitemaps (v3.1.0). Recently, I added some new pages (single article menu item) and added in menu entry the metadata noindex, nofollow, but SchuWeb Sitemaps ...
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Is it possible to change the parent of a menu item at certain widths?

I have a horizontal main menu in which the last item is a dropdown containing further items. Is it possible, as the screen width is reduced, to move items from the horizontal menu into the dropdown? ...
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Custom field in menu item

I am trying to get a custom field type into the menu. I want this to be a dropdown which I poulate with some php code. Where the arrow points in want my dropdown field. So I created in /components/...
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Using JRoute to generate component SEF URL without a menu item id

Currently JRoute generates URLs for my component which look like this https://mysite.com/component/mycomponent/xxx, where I'm handling xxx in my component's router. Instead I'd like JRoute to generate ...
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Menu item "tagged list": How to disable link on image and title?

How can I disable linked titles and the link on the image in a menu item tagged list? I am running Joomla 3.9.14.
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Connecting module with com_ajax triggers request on menu item one level up

I've got a custom module which makes use of com_ajax to return values without refreshing the page. In my helper file I'm struggling to get the module parameters within the AJAX request and it looks ...
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Breadcrumbs Incorrect URL Path

Using Joomla 3.9.12 and SP Portfolio v1.7 I have a menu item called Locations, this is a menu item type SP Simple Portfolio » Items Whenever I visit example.com/locations I can see all my portfolio ...
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How to override a link's href attribute in mod_menu?

Better title might be 'How to set the menuItem object 'link' property?' I've used menu overrides for a variety of purposes such as changing layout and styling etc but would now like to change the ...
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How to enter relative (to current page) URL as a menu item?

I would like to be able to enter relative URLs (relative to the current page URL). I've tried the menu type URL (nested within System Links) but when I enter e.g. first it becomes /first and when I ...
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Create menu item type with filter options

I am building a component managing a set of job offers. Jobs have attributes including "employer". (I am extending a component created with Component Creator.) There is a front-end list view with ...
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"Temporarily Unavailable" message when a menu alias contains "contact"

One of the websites we manage, http://wesleyunited.ca , recently started having a problem with menu aliases containing "contact" as a substring: clicking the menu just brings up an empty page that ...
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Get parent menu item object in plugin

Problem Working with a code variation from this tutorial I'm trying to get the parent menu item instance object of a given item (currently editing) and it always returns null. /** * Prepare form ...
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Some SimpleCRM menu items fail with error: Call to a member function getModel() on null

Immediately after upgrading my Joomla version from 3.9.1 to 3.9.4, I can no longer access certain Simple CRM submenus in the backend. The Company Codes link works properly. (http://localhost/jdem02/...
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Article URL in Blog format adds suffix to menu separator

Main navigation items are separators and all active navigation are sub-level menu items. The Main menu works perfectly but, say, navigating to the blog all the active title links add a "-2" suffix to ...
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Menu links working only for logged in users

This is the site I'm talking about. If you click any menu item, you reach the correct page, but the page shows up garbled and the page URL is much longer than it should be, including categories names ...
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How to create 2 menus inside one component view

I've create a component called testComponent with a specific view called collection which needs to have 2 layouts the default.php and the list.php. I need to make both default and list as menu items ...
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Ordering Joomla menus in code

I am trying to order jos_menu items by the order in which they appear on the menu. In other words, I am using jdatabase sql queries to fetch menu objects then iterate through them to display them. I ...
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Can Smart Search index menu items or custom modules?

I am using Joomla v3.8.13 and have enabled Smart Search v3.0.0 which is indexing articles correctly. I've also installed ChronoForms by ChronoEngine to create a Contact Us form and some other forms. ...
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Link to article with anchor

I have following site structure, 2 big anchored articles: Frontpage, url=/, menu item type=article About Us, url=index.html#about-us Contacts, url=index.html#contacts Article1, url=articles.html#...
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Has anyone tried setting homepage access level to registered?

I tried this on many of my websites, most of them are getting "redirect you too many times" error, and I compare server settings of those that work and don't, but couldn't find any major difference ...
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Joomla's homepage content displayed instead of the article page

I'm starting a new Joomla 3. x template and I'm finishing the front page index.php, now the problem is when I go to an article the same page is appears (the front-page) how can I create a custom page ...
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Hiding a Menu item with PHP in Sourcer in Joomla 3.8.1

I have a menu Item, and I added a custom css class so I could modify it like so: In Firefox's F12 developer tool, when I look up testphpmenuclass I find it just fine here: So I create a Custom ...
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How to display submenus in customized Joomla menu?

I want add schema in my Joomla menu. My code: $menu = JFactory::getApplication()->getMenu(); // Get menu items - array with menu items $items = $menu->getItems('menutype', 'mainmenu'); //...
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Add custom text to a contact list

I am Using Joomla 3.8. I added some contacts to the system and a menu. The menu contains a menu entry "Contacts" that lists all of the contacts of a certain category. This all works fine and was easy ...
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How is the relationship between template styles and menus stored in Joomla 3.x?

I'm working on a tool that imports content for a new language. As part of that process, I'm creating a copy of a template style specific to the new language. After making a copy of the template style ...
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Joomla menu item has "com-akeeba" embedded in the url

I am adding a new menu item to my Joomla 2.5 site (can't upgrade to Joomla! 3 due to old version of PHP). I am adding the menu item "Download" at the top level of the main menu. The url ends up being ...
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Inactive control panel buttons

I moved my site to the other host and got a troubles in administration panel. Top menu is inactive, any button does not work. The other problem - I can not update my version 3.8.6 to 3.8.7. The ...
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How to remove menu parent from url?

The Joomla menu system includes the menu's parent name in the URL structure for sub-menu items as follows: https://www.mysite.com/parent/page I'd like to remove the parent directory from the url as ...
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Why does one menu item have a Hidden tag?

One of my menu items has a hidden tag on it. I don't recall seeing a setting or field for that. The menu item shows up on the site as expected. Why is it there and how might I have inadvertently ...
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How to link article to specific menu item?

I have two menu items, for example Menu1 and Menu2. Both are a Category Blog for same category Cat1, but Menu1 has some specified tags. Of course, some articles are present on both pages, and all url'...
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Navigation link to div id does not behave correctly

What I'm doing I am currently working on my Menu. I have one Menu-Item which links to a <div> that I have given an <div id="foo"> I link to this id by using the external url option with ...
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How do I add custom HTML into a menu?

How do I add custom HTML into a menu? I wish to add this code as a menu item. <form action="/your-server-side-code" method="POST"> <script src="https://checkout.stripe.com/checkout.js" ...
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For menu item other than article - won't show page header H1

When I have menu items (other than articles) and Page Display -> Show Page Heading = YES Page Display -> Page Heading = BlaBlaBla.... I do not see any Page Header. This works only if the ...
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