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Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By : Tom Canavan, Chris Davenport
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Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

4.8 (4)
By: Tom Canavan, Chris Davenport

Overview of this book

If you are a Joomla! site owner, you must already be aware of how this robust, easy to use, open source content management system can help you build a great looking site instantly. You must also be aware of the many problems that it can throw up from time to time. Find the solutions to all your basic and advanced Joomla! queries, so you don't have to wait for someone on the forums to help you out every time.The Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook will provide you with quick and direct solutions to the most common and uncommon problems faced by you, the Joomla! site owner, sidestepping all the theoretical fuss.Joomla! is the insanely popular, award winning content management system which helps you build professional looking websites, even if you don't have any HTML programming experience or design skills.Although, sometimes you might trip over some common pitfalls which would slow the progress of your website down. This book will help you find a direct and quick way through these common problems which can be easily avoided with a few tips and tricks. It starts of with solutions the most common queries that you might face during the installation and setup for Joomla! 1.5 moving on swiftly to guide you through Joomla! templates, modules, security, managing your users and much more. So the next time when things go wrong with your Joomla! site and you are wondering, for example, how to work with your site's database; just pick up this book and quickly find your way through this.
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Creating menu items for components

In a previous recipe, you learned how to install a component. That's exactly half the process. Next you create a menu item for it. This will enable it to interact with the users.

Carrying on with our Agora example, let's create a menu for Agora so our WidgetWorld Users can post threads on the products.

How to do it...

  1. Log in to your Administrator Console.
  2. Click Menus and choose the menu you wish - in this case, use Main Menu - thus Menus | Main Menu.
  3. Click New in the upper right-hand corner.
    How to do it...

    The above screenshot is a snippet of the Select Menu Item Type - Yours will vary.

    In this example, we see several items - we want Agora Forum.

  4. Click Agora Forum.
  5. Scroll down and fill out the details as you see here (use your own details):
    How to do it...

    This will give the forum menu on the home page a title called WidgetWorld FORUM.

  6. Click Save.

    Now when we visit this from the front of the site we see the completed WidgetWorld FORUM on our menu:

    How to do it...

How it works...

The creation and location...

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