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Getting Menu Parameters from Joomla

I'm trying to get parameters from the menu table in Joomla. What I have below is working in the sense that it is returning the parameters.

 $menu =   &JSite::getMenu();
 $item =  $menu->getItem($menuId)->params;
 print $items;

However, It's returning them in plain text, as if I had just queried the column and returned the params contents.

Can someone tell me how to return this as an Object or Array so that I can use something like:

$myParam = $item->getParams('theParamIwant');
Solution

  • You need to use the JParameter class to read the params. Try something like this:

    $item = $menu->getItem($menuId);
$params = new JParameter($item->params);
$myParam = $params->get('theParamIwant');