Comments on: Advanced Techniques: The Joomla Parent Menu ItemID

By: Dolmat

Dolmat — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:34:04 +0000

Does this article can solve my Joomla problem here?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8877167/change-page-heading-in-joomla-based-on-menu-id

By: ahmad balavipour

ahmad balavipour — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:24:47 +0000

thanks alot, very good tutorial

By: Dan Luton

Dan Luton — Wed, 11 May 2011 20:43:33 +0000

Glad it helped! Thanks for posting guys.

By: Philippe

Philippe — Wed, 11 May 2011 20:24:27 +0000

Thanks !
Really helpfull trick as I was wondering how to find the parent menu itemid.
Solution 2 works fine and easy to use.
Exactly what I was searching for

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:31:30 +0000

EXACTLY what I needed. Many thanks!

By: Dan Luton

Dan Luton — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:39:27 +0000

Hi Bira,

I have replaced individual special characters before with PHP, so would imagine the same could apply here.

I think you’d have to define each one individually though, which could be lengthy…I’m not sure of a better way to do it.

Something like:

ereg_replace(“á”, “a”, $parentmenu)
ereg_replace(“ó”, “o”, $parentmenu)

…should be sufficient.

Thanks for pointing it out, it’s easy to forget other languages and exceptions such as special characters!

By: Bira

Bira — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:23:55 +0000

Before the line #15 I have inserted a function I found here http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtr.php#90925 to normalize the accented characteres, instead of deleting them. It is nice for those, like me, whose language have accented characteres like á and ó etc. Is there any other way to get the titles already without accents, like an “alias”? And of course thanks!

By: TaeV

TaeV — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:06:02 +0000

Thank so much.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:56:06 +0000

That was exactly what I have been trying to do all morning. Thanks!

By: Dan Luton

Dan Luton — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:45:39 +0000

Hi Josh,

Depends what you mean.

If you want to get the current Menu Itemid, you can use:

$item_id = JRequest::getVar(‘Itemid’);

Alternatively, you can use the above technique to obtain the parent menu Itemid for a different level:

$parentmenu = JSite::getMenu()->getActive()->tree[1];

…which should work. All depends really what it is you’re trying to achieve – this article really focuses on the absolute top-level ID.

Hope that helps.