Hello I am new to Seblod.
Can someone tell me if Seblod can create an article and create a menu item, then assign that article to that menu? I am looking for ways to automate the creation of content on my site. The idea would be to take 15 steps of creating content down to 3 or something.
Thanks
Hi Garrett, try NoNumber AddtoMenu Plugin for that need. Hope that helps!
FYI - I have created a related topic and tracker item over here...
http://www.seblod.com/community/forums/lists-search-types/automatic-menu-list-with-categories-plus-articles#post13385
BTW, are you talking of frontend submissions? Do you need a custom ordering of articles, or just one of the available defaults? i.e. alphabetical, by dates, backend manager order etc.
Hi folks
1
you need to have the field AfterStore
2
You need to add this field to your article form
3
You need to get the id of the article you have just created and saved
$artId = $config['pk']; // a search through the seblod forums will get you this answer
4
You need to add the code that creates a menu item (You will need to know specific menu item info like "path", "link" etc - tip: create a menu item that matches the one you want to create and use those db values).
For the search and list type, I have the art_id field in the search form, and for the live value: 'url - variable'. Select this and then under 'live value' you can click configure. Set 'type' to 'Integer', and 'variable' to 'id'. That pulls the id value from the url. There are many ways of doing achieving the same result...
// Create the menu item
$menuTable = JTableNested::getInstance('Menu');
// assign the values
$menuData = array(
// Uncomment as necessary
// 'id' = '; // Automatic
'menutype' => $menuType, // Required
'title' => $menuTitle, // Required
'alias' => $menuAlias, // I used this: 'alias' => JFilterOutput::stringURLSafe($menuTitle);
'note' => $note,
etc.....
'link' => 'index.php?option=com_cck&view=list&search=my_user_group_search_type&task=search&id=' . $artId;
// make sure 'lft' and 'rgt' are commented out
// 'lft' => ,
// 'rgt' => ,
// 'home' => 0,
'language' => '*', // Required
'client_id' => 0 // Required
);
// this menu item is at the root so the parent id needs to be 1, refer to db
$parentId = 1;// or whatever you need it to be
$menuTable->setLocation($parentId, 'last-child');
// save is the shortcut method for bind, check and store
if (!$menuTable->save($menuData))
{
$this->setError($menuTable->getError());
return false;
}
// Menu Item created
As a bonus example of creating something else with AfterStore....
//
// Create User Group
//
// ($newUG can be changed to whatever you want ie $potatoSniffer)
// ($addUG can be changed to whatever you want ie $dangerMouseRules)
//
$newUG = new JCckContent(
array('joomla_user_group')
);
$addUG = $newUG->create(
'my_content_type_name_based_on_user_group',
array(
// data to go in the standard Joomla UG fields
'title'=> $title,
'parent_id'=> $ugParent
),
array(
// data to go in the Seblod table ie #__cck_store_form_my_content_type_name_based_on_user_group
'color' => $ugColor;
'funky' => $hellYeah
)
);
// Usergroup created
<br>
I was able to create multiple menu items...
Insert Multiple Rows in table with lft and rgt columns
Bucklash
