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How to show tagged items in category blog layout
Since this problem seems has been already asked several times and there is still no good answer for that, I'd like to try to provide my solution from the template override side. The steps are quite ...
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Change Login to Logout
The Good Folks at OSTraining just published this nice Tutorial:
Step #1. Create the Login link
Go to Menus > your menu > Add New Menu Item
Enter a Menu Title.
Select the Menu Item Type.
Choose ...
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Get menu item by ID in Joomla 3
Not a big difference so far for what you are after...
$mainframe = JFactory::getApplication();
$menu = $mainframe->getMenu();
// Use this if you want to get all menu items from a certain menu
$...
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Programmatically Add Menu Item in Component
firstly - menu items are not put into the assets table, so this question is about a non-existent problem. The link provided in the question gives the correct answer for joom 2.5 and 3.x. but for ...
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Joomla 3 - use article title as browser Page title with the menu item title
Here is the simple answer for you.
<?php
$menu = JSite::getMenu()->getActive();
//SET THE PAGE TITLE
$doc= JFactory::getDocument();
$doc->setTitle($menu->title.' - '.$this->item-&...
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External link menu item with tell or callto
This should work just fine. You do however need to ensure you set the Menu Item Type to External URL.
See the screenshots below:
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How is the relationship between template styles and menus stored in Joomla 3.x?
template_style_id column in #__menu table.
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Can Smart Search index menu items or custom modules?
To answer the question: The items indexed in the smart search are driven by the 'finder' plugins. Menu items and custom modules have no finder plugins, but you could write them. I don't know of any ...
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Add a parameter to "external url" menu item
The External URL menu item also has an XML file (like all backend forms in Joomla). You can find it inside:
administrator/components/com_menus/models/forms/item_url.xml
So inside this file (or the ...
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Create menu item that opens modal window
back in time I have suggested the modals plugin by Nonumber in a same question question:
How can I make a modal menu item?.
I Haven't tried recently, but I guess you could give your menu item a ...
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List articles by author
There is another solution that you can use which doesn't require any installs or modifications.
First create a new module of type: "Articles - Category". This type of module allows you to filter ...
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How to make a menu item (menu link) invisible in a footer menu?
Login to your website administration site
Go to Menus -> Your menus which has this menu item
Click on the Unpublish button of the desired menu item
If you do not want to unpublish and just want to ...
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Joomla 3 frontend view xml: How do I add a custom field to the menu item's paramaters?
Try removing the blank spaces in fields name and fieldset name attributes
<fields name="RouteSettings">
<fieldset name="RouteSettings">
<field name="route_id" type="sql" ...
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How to add/remove menu item programmatically?
Assuming the menu option has a suitable CSS selector e.g. "item-135", it could be hidden via CSS.
You could create a custom HTML module to add the appropriate code to the applicable page(s). Set the ...
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How to detect whether the user is on a specific menu?
You can use the following to display the desired message:
$app = JFactory::getApplication(); exist
$menu = $app->getMenu();
$title = $menu->getActive()->title;
echo 'Welcome to ' . $...
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Change Login to Logout
In Joomla! 3.5 we have a new menu item type called Logout in Users section, create a new menu item and select this new option, see the screenshot:
Regards.
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List articles by author
This is not provided by default from Joomla. You could either use a module, create your own model-view with a custom menu item, or use 3rd party content component or CCKs like k2.
Joomla Content - ...
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K2: Call To A Member Function Get() On Null
I posted the issue on k2 forum and got the answer. Following is the issue's reason and solution:
In Helix Framework, when we create a menu item of type item edit form. It throws an error. So, this is ...
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Menu item adding 'Clients/' to url
I had the same issue with the menu then I found this.
https://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=615&t=772029
It was helpful but not the solution.
Then I checked my #__menu table and there I ...
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Set Prefered Template with parent:display()?
You can force the template style like this:
$templateStyleId = 3; // set here the template style id
$app = JFactory::getApplication();
JTable::addIncludePath(JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR . '/...
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Is there an event for saving a menu item?
onContentAfterSave() is the right one.
It appears in com_menus, in the menu item model's save function:
(administrator\components\com_menus\models\menu.php - line 240)
// Trigger the after save ...
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How to remove menu parent from url?
A "clean" way of addressing this problem from within the Joomla is to create the child menu item in a hidden menu, and then reference (in the real menu) the child menu item using a menu item of type "...
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Hiding a Menu item with PHP in Sourcer in Joomla 3.8.1
It looks like you have a typo in your CSS. Your code section at the beginning is fine, but the screenshot at the end of your post is showing incorrect use of the !important rule.
The semi colon ...
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Some SimpleCRM menu items fail with error: Call to a member function getModel() on null
This question (problem) was successfully and quite quickly solved yesterday, working effectively together with @Mick on the solution. And this question is very well detailed, well described and it ...
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Creating a menu using php
For starters, perhaps just an oversight on bringing your code to the JSE platform here, but...
$menuTable = JTable::getInstance('Menu', 'JTable', array());
You are passing in an empty array.
$newMenu ...
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Show 'menuitem' field name in frontend of module
You can use the following:
$menu = Joomla\CMS\Factory::getApplication()->getMenu();
$menuItem = $menu->getItem($menulink);
echo $menuItem->title;
If you var_dump($menuItem);, it will show ...
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Get the number of menu elements? (Parents)
A more effective method to get all the menu items that are on the top level (level 1) and part of the menu called "mainmenu" (default menu):
// Get default menu - JMenu object
$menu = JFactory::...
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Working menu link now leads to 404 error page
Chiming in with another possible solution. I just ran into the same issue that was confounding me. I tried turning SEF URLs off, swapped the .htaccess / .hthacces.txt files, etc. All the recs you will ...
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Working menu link now leads to 404 error page
I was having the same issue when I redesigned a site for a client. I built the site on my server and transferred it to theirs. I couldn't figure out why this one alias (services) wouldn't work. If I ...
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How to show tagged items in category blog layout
This is not currently possible. The closest you can get is Tagged Items. There is an article in the Joomla Forums about how to add the read more. http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=708&t=...
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