Archived entries for Tutorials

Fix for mainmenu-xx in Joomla SEF urls

When converting a Joomla 1.0 site to 1.5 and activating SEF URLs, you may discover that the URLs suddenly have the menuname in them. For instance like this: http://example.com/about-us-mainmenu-12. This is because of changes to aliases in the migration process. A menu item titled “About us” might have had the alias “about-us” in Joomla 1.0, but in Joomla 1.5 it is given the alias “about-us-mainmenu-12″ after the migration, where 12 is the menu item’s ID, or Itemid. Here is a fix you can run on your database to correct all of this.

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Hide view or layout in the Joomla menu manager

If you are building your own component, and you have layouts or entire views you wish to hide from the backend menu manager, you can do so with very little effort and some bits of XML.

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