Joomla create menu item from component - php

Question

Here is my current component setup. I have a very dynamic page generation component that syncs with data from a external API to create pages for products without extra data entry.
Right now it works at a simple button click to populate all and update any changes, or just update individual fields. What this leads to is the generation of static "pages" from the api in joomla, and the ability to update it from the api.
The problem comes into the fact that this is used as the "home" menu item so the component itself takes the root directory. What I need is each "page" to take a sub menu of home automatically, though just setting the main menu item as home does not seem to work, it leads to the JRoute class getting confused and using component/ , everything I have read so far takes the assumption it is not the default menu item so I am losing home making it fully automatic.
So my question is, is there a function class to create menu items from components in joomla? adding another row to the joomla menu table for each page while i update them "should" solve the problem, I know I can try to figure out how joomla adds them to the database on my own, but I would prefer to use a joomla class/function if at all possible, any ideas?
here is my current router.php, works fine for directly linking to the page but not when using JRoute. There is some uneeded parts to this as I have been doing some extensive testing though.
<?php
defined('_JEXEC') or die;
function GoFormsBuildRoute($query){
$segments = array();
$app = JFactory::getApplication();
$menu = $app->getMenu();
$params = JComponentHelper::getParams('com_goforms');
$db = JFactory::getDBO();
if (empty($query['Itemid'])) {
$menuItem = $menu->getActive();
$menuItemGiven = false;
}
else {
$menuItem = $menu->getItem($query['Itemid']);
$menuItemGiven = true;
}
//print_r($menuItem);
if(isset($query['option'])){
unset($query['option']);
}
if(isset($query['view'])){
$view = $query['view'];
}else{
return $segments;
}
unset($query['view']);
if(isset($query['id'])){
if ($menuItemGiven && isset($menuItem->query['id'])) {
$mCatid = $menuItem->query['id'];
} else {
$mCatid = 0;
}
//echo 'hi';
if(strpos($query['id'], ':') === false) {
$db = JFactory::getDbo();
$aquery = $db->setQuery($db->getQuery(true)
->select('alias')
->from('#__goforms_list')
->where('id='.(int)$query['id'])
);
$alias = $db->loadResult();
$query['id'] = $alias;
}
$segments[] = $query['id'];
unset($query['id']);
}
print_r($segments);
return $segments;
}
function GoFormsParseRoute($segments){
$vars = array();
$app = JFactory::getApplication();
$menu = $app->getMenu();
$item = $menu->getActive();
$params = JComponentHelper::getParams('com_goforms');
$db = JFactory::getDBO();
print_r($item);
$count = count($segments);
if($count == 1){
if(isset($segments[0])){
$vars['view'] = 'region';
$alias = str_replace(':','-',$segments[0]);
//print_r($alias);
//echo '<br>';
$query = 'SELECT alias, id FROM #__goforms_list WHERE alias = "'.$alias.'"';
$db->setQuery($query);
$page = $db->loadObject();
if($page){
$vars['view'] = 'region';
$vars['id'] = (int)$page->id;
return $vars;
}else{
$vars['view'] = 'goforms';
}
}else{
$vars['view'] = 'goforms';
}
}
return $vars;
}
?>
in review:
Joomla 2.5
component is at root menu item of site (home)
items from component need to fall under the first level of menu after home
links work, however JRoute class in joomla does not properly make the link.