show joomla component in menu item type

Question

I made a component for Joomla and it's working ok with the direct url: http://www.something.com/index.php?option=com_pbform

The problem is that when I try to add it in the menu. When I change the menu item type, the component is listed, but when I click on it I don't get a view to apply to the menu item.

Do I have to configure anything else in the component?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Add your component to jos_components table:

INSERT INTO jos_components (name, link, admin_menu_link, `option`)
VALUES (
  'Greetings', 'option=com_greetings', 'option=com_greetings', 'com_greetings')

If you have all your views set up correctly you need to add your component into the Joomla database.

Functions and view folders must have no hyphens or underscores.

Good

• /view/viewone
• /view/viewtwo
• /view/viewthree

Bad

• /view/view_one
• /view/view_two
• /view/view_three

Answer 2

If you setup your component in the MVC fashion then you would have a views/layout folder structure in your component folder. Each different view you have in there will be listed in the menu types under your component name. This is where the views can be chosen.

For eg in your component folder structure you have

views/view_a
views/view_b
views/view_c

then in the Joomla menu selector you would have those choices to select as a view.

If you haven't setup your component as MVC then have a look at this tutorial on how to do just that http://www.joomladevuser.com/tutorials/components

I hope that helps! Cheers

Answer 3

You may need a metadata.xml file for each of your views. See http://docs.joomla.org/Adding_view_layout_configuration_parameters for more details

Answer 4

Use this simple solution. You expected to find your new component in the menu item type drop-down list, but its not there! Instead of trying to cope with that ugly MVC scrap do this:

• select "single article" from the list and SAVE your new menu item
• now open your joomla db
• select _menu table
• edit your menu row
• change link from article to index.php?option=com_yourcomponent
• save and take a look at administrator menu manager

I did migrate my Joomla 1.5 collection of Ajax/PHP scripts to Joomla 1.7.3 using this solution in just one day.

Piece of cake.