Force Joomla JRoute to use the menu item

joomla, joomla2.5, php, routes, url-routing

Solution

//look if there is a menu item set for myapp. if yes, we use that one to redirect
$db  = JFactory::getDBO();
$defaultRedirect = 'index.php?option=com_myapp&view=cpanel';
$db->setQuery('SELECT `id` FROM #__menu WHERE `link` LIKE '. $db->Quote($defaultRedirect) .' LIMIT 1' );
$itemId = ($db->getErrorNum())? 0 : intval($db->loadResult());
if($itemId){
    $rpath = JRequest::getString('return', base64_encode(JRoute::_('index.php?Itemid='.$itemId)));
}else{
    $rpath = JRequest::getString('return', base64_encode(JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_myapp&view=cpanel')));
}

Beware: This is NOT language-safe. It takes the first menu entry found in the db. If you setup different menu aliases for different languages you have to check for the right language in the SQL query, too.

Problem

I'm building a component for Joomla! 2.5 and inside I'm using `JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_myapp&view=cpanel')` to build all my links. This works, BUT it produces links which look like that: ``` /component/myapp/cpanel.html ``` In the menu however I have defined that `index.php?option=com_myapp&view=cpanel` has an alias of "myapp" so the link should rather be ``` /myapp/cpanel.html ``` The component is accessible via this path. If I do that, also all links generated inside will have the `/myapp` prefix. But for use in a template (special login link) and if the user stumbles upon `/component/myapp`.... I still want all links to go to `/myapp` prefix. How can I force JRoute to use this menu item entry by itself?

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