I am trying to re-create the menu items from main menu in Joomla in a page, which is outside Joomla's template folder.
Are there any method available, such as 'wp_nav_menu' in Wordpress, which would help me to generate the Menu.
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To clarify, are you trying to re-create the menu from your Joomla-generated pages for a non-Joomla page? – Cynthia Aug 18 '12 at 13:06
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yes, i have a page in another Application, where i need to genertae the menus defined by Joomla Admin – s_s_ Aug 18 '12 at 13:27
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I think you're going to have to view the source on one of your Joomla pages and cut and paste the menu code from there and hard code it into your non-Joomla application. Make sure you also call the template.css file from your Joomla template as well so that the menu styling matches. – Cynthia Aug 18 '12 at 13:49
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I am pretty new to Joomla, but all what i can figure out is there is just one liner code in Joomla Template, which renders the required HTML code `
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you can either hard code it or establish a connection to the database, pull the menu items and echo each result within an `
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– Lodder Aug 18 '12 at 14:53
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There are two steps that you will need to follow
First, make your external page capable of running joomla library. To do this you will need to include few lines of code in your external php page
define( '_JEXEC', 1 );
define('JPATH_BASE', dirname(__FILE__).'/../../../../' ); // should point to joomla root
define( 'DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR );
require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'defines.php' );
require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'framework.php' );
$mainframe =& JFactory::getApplication('site');
$mainframe->initialise();
Second, Create a menu module for your desired menu and enable it on a custom position say 'xxxx' and then put the following code where you want the put that menu
jimport( 'joomla.application.module.helper' );
$module = JModuleHelper::getModules('xxxx');
// xxxx is any virtual position, no need to create it anywhere.
echo JModuleHelper::renderModule($module[0]);
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I tried the mentioned code, but it giver me the following fatal error: `Fatal error: Class 'JModuleHelper' not found` – s_s_ Aug 21 '12 at 06:42
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put this line before using JModuleHelper jimport( 'joomla.application.module.helper' ); i had also updated the code in my answer. – Anand Aug 21 '12 at 07:17
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Is there in any manner, I could disable the Session Start in Joomla, as it is conflicting with the session used in my application, where I am integrating the Joomla Menu – s_s_ Aug 21 '12 at 07:32
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I also figured out, we don't need the following line of code, `$mainframe->initialise();` – s_s_ Aug 21 '12 at 07:34
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I have a site that is build in Joomla, now i have got to integrate another application built earlier with this Joomla installation, so this application is placed under a folder named `app`, at Joomla root. When I create a page in this application to display the menu on the page, it brings `/app/index.php/about` in the menu URL. the expected value is `/index.php/about` – s_s_ Aug 21 '12 at 07:50