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#3007 – Other menus

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Sunday, 27 November 2016 18:24 UTC

miojamo

Hi,

How can sh404 fetch all the menus? I have menus but they not being fetched till published and visible on the site which I do not want as I create manual links e.g.

Main menu
- Product 1 [alias for product 1 features]

Second menu
- Product 1
- - Features

Second menu is not being seen. How can I tell sh404 to harvest the second menu without publishing it?

Thanks.

Monday, 28 November 2016 09:02 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

I don't understand this phrase:

I have menus but they not being fetched till published and visible on the site

How can a menu be viewed by users if it's not published?

What do you use to make them show when sh404SEF is disabled? Joomla itself will not show a menu that's not published.

Rgds

Monday, 28 November 2016 09:06 UTC

miojamo

Menu is published but menu module is not. It worked before sh404 activated.

Even if the menu module is not published on the site the menu still works and can be accessed by it's structure:

/product1/features

SH404 however does not see it I think it should see all the menus created even if not published.

Monday, 28 November 2016 09:13 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

OK, not sure I understand the problem: you said the problem was that the menu was not displayed? or something else?

can be accessed by it's structure:

/product1/features

Do you mean "can be accessed by this URL /products1/features"?

sh404SEF does not use menu items at all. So a "product" (or any page) cannot be accessed using whatever you used as menu items.

URLs are built with the articles names and categories (with many settings to choose the URL structure). But in general we absolutely do not use the menus.

Also, this is totally different depending on the type of content. For instance with Virtuemart, we sometimes used some menu items, but it's very rare.

WIth Joomla articles, categories, etc we simply do not use the menus to build URLs.

Rgds

Monday, 28 November 2016 09:26 UTC

miojamo

So do I need to publish all menu modules so sh404 can fetch all the links and than unpublish them?

I use custom php code to display menus within custom html module.

Is there anything else I can do? I do not want to create all links manually in sh404

Monday, 28 November 2016 09:45 UTC

wb_weeblr

I use custom php code to display menus within custom html module.

Well why is your custom code not displaying the menus?

Rgds

Monday, 28 November 2016 10:21 UTC

miojamo

Menus are being displayed however sh404 does not see them.

Monday, 28 November 2016 10:24 UTC

wb_weeblr

Menus are being displayed however sh404 does not see them.

sh404SEF does not "see" menus or anything.

Joomla API says that SEF URLs are created when non-sef links are passed through the JRoute::_() function. If you do not follow the Joomla API and do not pass non-sef links through JRoute::_() method, then it's normal and expected that SEF URLs are not created.

What code do you use to display links? do you follow the Joomla API and use JRoute?

Rgds

Monday, 28 November 2016 11:04 UTC

miojamo

Here is the code I use:

$app = JFactory::getApplication();
$menu = $app->getMenu();
$menu_items = $menu->getItems('menutype', 'mymenu');

$lastEl = end($menu_items);
foreach ($menu_items as $item):
if ($item->level == 2):
if ($item == $lastEl):
echo "<li><a href='" . $item->alias . "'> <i class=\"uk-icon-shopping-bag\"></i> " . $item->title . "</a><li>";
elseif ($item->type == 'url'):
echo "<a href='".$item->link."' target='_blank'>".$item->title."</a>";
else:
echo "<li><a href='".JURI::base().$item->route . "'>".$item->title . "</a><li>";
endif;
endif;
endforeach; ?>

Monday, 28 November 2016 11:27 UTC

wb_weeblr

<a href='".JURI::base().$item->route . "'

Yes, this is incorrect and is causing the behavior you are seeing. I would suggest you look at the original Joomla module code for the right way to display links (in /modules/mod_menu/helper.php). The quick way would be something like that:

if (strcasecmp(substr($item->link, 0, 4), 'http') && (strpos($item->link, 'index.php?') !== false))
					{
						$item->link = JRoute::_($item->link, true, $item->params->get('secure'));
					}
					else
					{
						$item->link = JRoute::_($item->link);
					}

This simplified code willl of course work only for a limited set of menu items, ie not nested menus, etc

We can't provide support for custom coding, but by looking at the original menu module, you should be able to fix the problem. Whatever code you use, using JRoute is totally mandatory anyway.

Rgds

Monday, 28 November 2016 11:29 UTC

miojamo

Thanks I will try this

Monday, 28 November 2016 12:59 UTC

miojamo

I works :) thanks a lot

I have another question:

URL's are build from the article alias. Is it ok so the articles have the same alias? eg.:

/product1/features
/product2/features

I've checked it and it works, however I'm not sure it is correct.

Monday, 28 November 2016 13:38 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

It doesn't matter as long as the entire URL is unique. From an SEO standpoint, and just basic operation, each page must have a unique URL.

So if 2 articles have the same alias, but are in different categories - and you choose to keep the categories in URLs, you're good. If you select to remove categories from URLs, you have to make sure you have different aliases.

Rgds

Monday, 28 November 2016 13:42 UTC

miojamo

thanks great support!

Monday, 28 November 2016 13:44 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

You're welcome... Closing this ticket now, feel free to open a new one as needed. If you do so, please mention this ticket number in the new one.

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Rgds

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