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[TomC Moderator TomCJoin date: October 2014Posts: 14077Downloads:58Uploads:137 Thanks: 948 Thanked: 3155 times in 2495 posts]

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Is it possible to copy/paste the menu items from one template to another ??

In other words, I have a site using a particular template set up as a “main” site, and I have a subdomain for which I am using a different template (independent installation). Is there any way to copy and paste the menu items from one template to another – as opposed to setting the items up manually? (there are a lot of them)

Just curious if it’s somewhere within the code or something.

:confused:

[rami77 Friend rami77Join date: May 2008Posts: 5Downloads:0Uploads:1]

#306828

dear tcraw1010,
hope this will help.

in the database, there are 2 tables: jos_menu & jos_menu_types

these 2 tables hold the settings on the menus in joomla.

take a backup of these 2 tables from your “main”, and import them to the other template.

***********************
( MAKE SURE YOU BACKUP jos_menu & jos_menu_types FROM YOUR OTHER TEMPLATE )
***********************

this is not over yet. you will have to link the menus with their articals, catigories and sections again.

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I wonder, why are u having that template as a separate insatallation?

regards,
Rami Al Nairab

[nguyenhuu quang Friend nguyenhuu quangJoin date: September 2014Posts: 1087Downloads:0Uploads:3 Thanks: 29 Thanked: 328 times in 288 posts]

#306830

hi TOM, Rami77
need edit Css and php files.
so need exact copy from where to where?
sory my bad English

[TomC Moderator TomCJoin date: October 2014Posts: 14077Downloads:58Uploads:137 Thanks: 948 Thanked: 3155 times in 2495 posts]

#306913

rami77;131377dear tcraw1010,
hope this will help.

in the database, there are 2 tables: jos_menu & jos_menu_types

these 2 tables hold the settings on the menus in joomla.

take a backup of these 2 tables from your “main”, and import them to the other template.

***********************
( MAKE SURE YOU BACKUP jos_menu & jos_menu_types FROM YOUR OTHER TEMPLATE )
***********************

this is not over yet. you will have to link the menus with their articals, catigories and sections again.[/quote]
I will give this a shot tonight . . . So, if I am understanding correctly, it’s a matter of copying/pasting the database items you indicated above from the one site/template database into the other. At that point, the menu items should appear in the new site/template already populated – correct?

TomC wrote:

I wonder, why are u having that template as a separate insatallation?

regards,
Rami Al Nairab

It’s more a matter of redoing my site using the new template, and just hoping I didn’t have to spend the few hours re-entering all the menu and sub-menu items all over again. I set up the new template install (using quicktsart method) on a subdomain . . . with the eventual plan to migrate everything over as the main site once I have it where I want it.

(It’s kind of like doing the same thing using XAMPP – only doing it using a sub-domain on my host server)

It’s not a matter of existing articles and things – I hadn’t yet gotten to that point anyway. It’s juts the menu items/titles themselves. Between the main menu items and their relative sub items/categories, there are well over 100 items – I was just hoping there might be a more expeditious and/or efficient way to accomplish this than spending the 1-3 hours re-entering each item individually.

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