Question

This question is bit specific for Joomla.

I have a main menu consisting of:

Home|About US|Privacy Policy|Portfolio|Contacts US.

Each menu item is link to an article.

Now on the complete site there are many places in the components and modules where I need to show two links : Privacy Policy & Portfolio.

Can someone please guide me? I do not want to hard code the links as the item id would differ in production.

Answer 1

There are 2 ways you can do it:

Option 1:

Joomla loads menus every time page is loads. You can access the menus by calling the following methods.

// Get default menu - JMenu object, look at JMenu api docs
$menu = JFactory::getApplication()->getMenu();

// Get menu items - array with menu items
$items = $menu->getMenu();

// Look through the menu structure, once you understand it
// do a loop and find the link that you need.
var_dump($items);

This method is faster because you don’t need to query database. Simple operation in memory.

Option 2:

Get it from the database. Either get menu link from jos_menu based on alias or something, or get article # from jos_content by article alias, then create the link

$db = JFactory::getDBO();

//  Load by menu alias
$query = "SELECT link FROM #__menu WHERE alias = 'privacy-policy'";
$db->setQuery($query);
$url = $db->loadResult();
$url = JRoute::_($url);


//  Load by article alias
$query = "SELECT id FROM #__content WHERE alias = 'privacy-policy'";
$db->setQuery($query);
$articleId = (int) $db->loadResult();
$url = JRoute::_("index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=$articleId");