Menu Links with Parameters

Hi,

i'm stuck on a simple thing:
when creating a menuitem for ChronoConnectivity i seem to have no option for entering an other parameter than the connection name. But it is essential to hand over a parameter with that link string, in my case it's a simple "&catid=123", for example...so my menu item should look like "index.php?option=com_chronoconnectivity&Itemid=70&catid=123".

How do i do this?
if i enter a connection name and simply place the "&catid=123" behind it, it's obvious to cause an error.

Thanks for a hint,
Gekko

Hi Gekko,

try to make a menu item of type URL ?

Max

Thanks...i can't believe it's that simple...i thought menu items with manual URLs wouldn't behave that smoothly regarding pathways and assigned modules!

Thanks a lot for that useful tip!

=)

great!

I am experiencing the same issue with chronoforms V4. I have some params I want to put in the URL and so far have not found any way to give them a SEF url.

I have created an external URL type link, which as far as joomla is concerned is not a link within the same site so doesn't convert to a nice URL. What I figured was that if I created a menu item alias type menu link to this external URL it might tidy things up a bit. What I'm left with is something like index.php?Itemid=129 as the URL, which is shorter than the native joomla url, but still not very nice. I haven't started assigning module to this link yet, is this going to cause problems??

Would love another solution. Anyone know of any plugin that can be used to craft your own URLs? I've never used an actual SEF component, just the core joomla SEF URLs in golbal config, is this something that can be achieved with one of these extensions?

Hi andypooz ,

What are you actually trying to achieve here? There may be some other way of passing the information?

Bob

thank you brother to share such a great and help full reply, hope that you will keep it up and will share more as like this,
appreciated

I was looking for a similar task and had a problem with a menu that I wanted to show on each menu item. If I chose a URL link menu the menu would not show. So I ended up with a number of connectivity menu items and aliased them like tpg0 for all records in the table and tpg1 for a group identity tpg2 and so on.

In the general tab settings and in the WHERE SQL box I used this code:

<?php
$menu = &JSite::getMenu();
$active = $menu->getActive();
$param=str_replace("tpg","",$active->alias);

if ($param >= 1) {
echo "GroupNameID="; echo $param;
}
?>

This tread is old, but I spent so much time on this that I wanted to have a place to look at when I need this code again.