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Hi everyone,

Newbe here. I researched the forum but I couldn't find the answer to my question. So, if it's been answered, please direct me to the posting🙂

I'm running Joomla 1.5 and want to redirect a form to a Thank You page. I created an article called "thank you" -- How do I direct the form to that article? I tried copying/pasting the general site URL with the article ID( ...mysite.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73) but it will only show the article and not the other component of the page (a custom mod header). I tried adding the header ID, but it will only work if I assign the header to a menu item. So I keep running around in circles...

As I understand Joomla (and I could be wrong--it happens often!) in order to create a "complete" page, you must add the components to the menu. Naturally, I don't want the thank you page on the menu.

So, in essence, how do I redirect the form to a thank you page that has an article and a custom module, which is not on the site's menu?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi baxterdown,

I think thats because you don't have an Itemid in the URL, to have this you need to assign the thank you page to a menu item, what about creating a hidden menu and just keep its module set to display in "none" ?


Cheers
Max

Hi Max,

Thanks for the quick reply! I tried that and it didn't work. Here's what I did:

- I created a new menu item (article layout) and assigned it the "Thank You" article
- I set Published to "no"

When I tried to assig the header module to it, I couldn't because the unpublished menu item wasn't showing. The problem that I'm having also is that the article and module ID's on the control panel don't correspond to the published element. So article 34 in the control panel doesn't match with article 34 in the URL. So I'm clueless in trying to guess the URL.

Hi baxterdown,

I think Max is suggesting that you create a whole menu that is hidden. That way the items on it can be published.

Bob

Hi Guys,

I got it! I didn't realize that the item ID was referring to the menu item rather than the module ID. I did as you suggested and created a new hidden menu, added a menu item and assigned the article (ID 74) and module to it. Got the menu item ID which is 98, changed my URL to read /index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=74&Itemid=98 and bingo!

Thanks so much for your help. I appreciate it.

Jose