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How to create page only with modules and no component?
There isn't really a 'better way' than that.
The only other option is to check whether you're on the homepage in your template file. To check if you're on the homepage you can use the method ...
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How to get the alias or title of the active menu item?
To get the data of the active (current) menu item, use the following code:
$app = JFactory::getApplication(); // Access the Application Object
$menu = $app->getMenu(); // Load the ...
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Understanding CSS classes applied to menus: "deeper" and "parent"
.deeper is applied when the menu item has a submenu (item)
.parent is applied if this menu item is parent of another menu item
If you have a menu showing all levels then both classes are applied to a ...
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Custom menu get title of the active menu's parent item
Try this code:
$menu = JFactory::getApplication()->getMenu();
$parent = $menu->getItem( $menu->getActive()->parent_id );
$parentname = $parent->title
If you need the link
$parentlink ...
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Adding a numerical value to each submenu in Joomla
Instead of using and incrementing $num, replace that with $item->level.
echo '<ul class="nav-child unstyled small lvl_'.$item->level.'">';
Note: Your code was missing a closing double quote ...
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Menu item without link
The main difference is how the HTML is rendered. Thus it depends on the template what the menu items look like. This is how the default Protostar template will display the different options:
External ...
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Copying Joomla Menu Items and keeping Module assignements
You can't do that as modules are assigned to a menu item id and saving a menu item as new will give it a new menu Id which no modules are assigned to.
Moving an item will keep its id but not copying.
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How to make a menu item scroll to heading on same page?
When creating anchors, you need to assign the name as an ID of the element, like so:
Link:
<a href="#contact">Contact</a>
Anchor:
<div id="contact">
// Your form here
</div&...
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How to add separate admin menu for custom component
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('...
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Creating a different kind of frontpage
This can be done with most templates. There's usually setting that lets you turn OFF the component function, hiding the main body. At that point it's just a page filled with modules. But even if you ...
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How to put divider images between menu items
You can achieve this using pure CSS using the greater than symbol > (immediate children selector) and the :after pseudo-element.
Here's a quick example based on the default Joomla 3 and the ...
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Change "Show page heading" param for every menu item
I believe you'll need to use SQL statements such as below. But be CAREFUL - BACKUP THE TABLE FIRST to be sure that you can restore it if there are more considerations than you've realized at this ...
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How to create page only with modules and no component?
In the JED there's also a "blank" component that lets you publish a menu item so you can place only modules.
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/style-a-design/personal-layout/17363
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Generate menu structure from categories
There used to be a Joomla 1.5 era extension called Automatic Menu but I can't find it on the JED that did exactly this, so, I'm guessing it never made it off 1.5.
However, in recent times we used a ...
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Joomla menu module - display levels in separate panels
I won't give you code on how to create a such menu, but I will give you an idea that will allow you to create a similar end result.
You can create a "Split-Menu", by using 2 menu modules.
At the ...
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Default menu item undo
You can't "unset" the default page. As you mention, Joomla requires at least one menu item to be set as default.
The solution is to set any other menu item as the default page by clicking ...
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How can I prevent a particular view in my Component from being available as a menu item?
This should be driven by xml files in the tmpl folder of the view. So for the default.php layout, you typically add a default.xml file to the same folder to make that layout available as a menu item.
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How to set up a menu icon in Joomla 3?
Answered my own question shortly after I wrote it. It was to do with the template. For some reason, the default ISIS template disables the icon view. If you are experiencing this problem, go to ...
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Undefined index: view with external url menu
I just had this issue myself. The problem was that the client had internal links that were not relative and were linking to the proper page but with these weird URLs.
Once the internal links on the ...
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How to create page only with modules and no component?
You can have multiple template layouts in your index file.
<!--Layout 1-->
<?php if ($BConfig->html=='layoutA') : ?>
<jdoc:include type="component" />
<?php endif; ?> &...
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Override a component view for a specific menu item
Method 1:
Use the CSS class to make it work the way you describe.
Add the class to the menu item (at the page display tab, write it in
the "Page Class" field). Example: " special-page" (note the ...
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How to create a collapsible menu with Joomla! 3.3 and Bootstrap 3?
I struggled with this longer than I care to admit.
My answer is based on Bootstrap 3.2.0 and it creates a collapsible dropdown menu for Joomla 3.3
In my template I included bootstrap.css and a ...
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Module as menu item
Here's one alternative to load the search module in your menu. It requires a couple of simple steps:
1. Override your mod_menu module
Create an override in your templates folder \templates\...
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4
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New menu changes article URL
No, this is how Joomla's sef system works. If you were to make a menu item to an article, that too would lose its item id from the url.
I think your only option would either be to override the router ...
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Template's main menu not responsive -how to fix it?
The menu is there but due to the colour of the dropdown trigger, it's very hard to see as it's blending in with the background. The image below shows you:
You can change the colour on line 80 of ...
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Joomla using bootstrap (mod_bootstrapnav) menu issue
Bootstrap and this module do not support three levels.
You can check it in Bootstrap v2.3.2, navbar dropdowns definition: http://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/javascript.html#dropdowns
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How to add separate admin menu for custom component
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:...
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How can I hide a menu item, without breaking its route?
Simply create Hidden Menu (call it whatever you want) which is not to be used in any menu module. It will hold menu items not visible on front end, and put your menu item in it.
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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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Joomla turns all menu items to sub-sub-menu items when adding a new one
The issue was down to a problem with a PDO database file MySQL driver, which is why it wasn't replicated on my other 3.5.0 site, which was using MySql.
There is a fix here, or it should be patched in ...
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