I am new to Social Engine. I am trying to add a custom menu item that will work with jQuery.
But I need to understand where is the file or files to edit in order to apply these changes.
Can anyone tell me how the Social Engine core is organized?
How do I find the files that control and generate the menu items?
Go to Control panel > Layouts > Menu editor and add new menu items to existing menus. From the same page you can also create new menus and later add them to any layout using the layout manager.
You should be able to add jQuery functionality to any menu by editing a suitable view file. Like if you want your jQuery to be available site wide then you can edit application\modules\Core\layouts\scripts\default.tpl and other layout scripts on that folder.
You can also create menu plugins. Take a look at this table on database- engine4_core_menuitems. You can see some menu items have corresponding classes. Find out those classes in SocialEngine and try to understand how they work. You can add conditions, small javascripts using these classes and this is recommended way to work with SocialEngine menus.
go to admin(control panel)
Layput
Menu Editior
As mentioned previously, we recommend editing menus in the Menu Editor which can be found in the Admin Panel > Layout > Menu Editor. For detailed instructions, please see: http://support.socialengine.com/questions/217/Admin-Panel-Layout-Menu-Editor
You can view the below mentioned video URL to understand the working environment with Socialengine Menu through admin user :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frc5U6iB_wg
need to click on Control panel then Layouts then Menu editor and add new menu items to existing menus. From the same page you can also create new menus and later add them to any layout using the layout manager.
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I am busy converting a HTML website into a Joomla temaplate, I got some help doing the home page (index.php), but now the menu items are not linking anywhere. I have a ready coded AboutUs.php page, which I want to important into Joomla and link to the 'About Us' menu item.
Can this be done in the similar way as it is done with the index.php file? Can I maybe upload the file via FTP and link it somehow in Joomla?
Any help on this would be much appreciated.
No it's not how joomla works.
You have to create the second menu item, link it with your content and add the extra modules that your "about us" page have.
If you don't want to do it like that you could create a new template and link each menu to different template but it's not a good approach.
If you are interested about the html part of the php site,
you can just create an article and paste html code in it (do not forget to set the editor in text mode).
If you have css, you may add it int the template's css file.
Otherwise, if you need php functionality, you need to create a joomla component.
If your going to migrate a site and use a tool like joomla i strongly suggest using it the way it was designed to be used. Otherwise theres no point.
When creating from scratch or migrating a site to joomla i would suggest firstly creating (or modifying) one or more templates to get the layout of you site; header, footer, logo, background, modules (eg. menu, login, etc) and component to load and so on.
You will have to recreate the menu items using the menu manager and apply your css to the menu module(you can download free menu modules or use the default one or develop one).
When creating a menu item you can select the template to be used and also what component you want to load (article, sitemap, blog, login, create user, etc...). An article is used to store html content which can be edited through the content manager although there are simple ways to add scripts to your articles.
If you want to add php to your content you have 4 choices.
Template (used to show content which appears on every page; this is where the html starts and ends and where the component and modules' positions are defined),
Component (this is loaded from the template depending on what menu item is selected),
Module (a very simple and easy way to add custom php and html code, can be loaded from the template or from components like in a joomla article),
Plugin (used when wanting to run scripts which dont have any visual content)
I am implementing a new website with customized theme. I have added menus(structure-> Add menu) but its displaying only in the default theme.Its not appearing in my theme.How I can show the menu in customized theme
theme: I changed one html file to theme
drupal version 7.22
all menus are blocks and are displayed in regions of page
go to /admin/structure/block and put your menu block in proper region since different themes have different regions
Use ready module it will help to customize menu easily and also allow for multiple level menu
Nice menu
I have a situation where we have a "user menu" on the top of the page.This menu is shown on every page with a module.Now in order to set up breadcrumbs properly I need to have a menu item which is published but not visible to any type of user whether guest or registered..
Is it possible in Joomla to have a menu item published and hidden yet accesible via URL??
You will have to write a different module which had most of the functionality of your custom module. In the new module you can change the code in a way so that you dont show the required menu.
I think you should create a menu, setup user groups, view level. Create a menu item, and try to access via menu alis - link.
Good luck
Yes, Menu's are independent of the modules that display them, it's possible to create a menu and not create a menu module, how, depends on the version of Joomla you are using.
That's why there are so hits when you Google — "Joomla Hidden Menu" There is even an article on Joomla Doc's on "Menus" that discusses hidden menus briefly.
So, the normal approach is to create a new Menu with a name like "Hidden" or "Shortcuts" and have the menu items created in that menu, then don't assign a menu module for it.
I have downloaded and installed OpenCart v1.5.2.1. Now I'm using the default template in there.
I want to add some extra elements like side menu bar to that template.
How can I achieve this? How can I add new elements to my current template according to my requirements?
you should check this link
or
you could buy the book titled Opencart 1.4 Template Design (but this for version 1.4 only)
For side menu bar go to Extensions > Module > Category(edit) then add module and choose which ever page you like to show and where at top, right, left and bottom and save the menu.
Logon to Admin Panel and select:-
Extensions -> Extensions ->
select 'Themes' from the extension type drop down menu
click on the Edit button of your Default Store Theme and from the General Tab select the desired Theme from the Theme Directory drop down menu and save it. Clear the Modifications from Extension -> Modifications. That's all.
I know how to hide the main component from the homepage, what I need is to do the same thing for all my menu items also. Basically, what I want is to create multiple homepages, so every category I choose has certain modules that display content.
How to show only modules, not the article when you click on a menu item (if it is linked to a single article)?
I know I can use some of the extensions that can embed modules to an article, but don't want to do it like that. I know that there are components that simulate homepages, don't want it like that either.
I hope my question is clear enough, I'm using Joomla 1.7.
I have found a simple solution!
Installed T3 framework, which allows the removal of main content component for the menu items you choose.