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[jimesten Friend jimestenJoin date: May 2008Posts: 16Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 3]

#133085

How can I disable the menu descriptions, so instead of getting….


Home
Welcome to the frontpage

I just get ….

Home

on the top menu links.

Thanks!

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#269264

Hi
You go to Menus-> Main menu, then choose Home menu to edit
You will see a paramater is Page title
2753
you can change as you want

[jimesten Friend jimestenJoin date: May 2008Posts: 16Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 3]

#269362

I dont think you are understanding.

I know that you can change the page titles, and that is how they display on the menu. I want to remove them entirely.

What I have now

what i want to get rid of

What I want…

[Menalto Friend MenaltoJoin date: May 2007Posts: 4736Downloads:0Uploads:43 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 531 times in 361 posts]

#269396

IF you open the template folder/ja_menus/Base.class.php and find line 243 to 250 and remove it:
[PHP] //Add page title to item
if ($level == 0 && $this->getParam(‘menu_title’)) {
if ($this->getPageTitle($iParams)) {
$txt .= ‘<span class=”menu-desc”>’. $this->getPageTitle($iParams).'</span>’;
} else {
$txt .= ‘<span class=”menu-desc”>’. $tmp->name.'</span>’;
}
}[/PHP]

It should work i think , just remember to backup the file before you do it.

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[pgrandmontagne Friend pgrandmontagneJoin date: July 2007Posts: 25Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 3]

#269491

Would it be possible to use the “title alias” parameter being shown instead of the “page title” as described above?

[Sherlock Friend SherlockJoin date: September 2014Posts: 11453Downloads:0Uploads:88 Thanks: 221 Thanked: 2478 times in 2162 posts]

#269610

Hi pgrandmontagne !
to show alias on description span , you can do it following way below :
open base.class.php file in templates/ja_olivine/ja_menus folder , find following code section at about line 244 :


if ($level == 0 && $this->getParam('menu_title')) {
if ($this->getPageTitle($iParams)) {
$txt .= '<span class="menu-desc">'. $this->getPageTitle($iParams).'</span>';
} else {
$txt .= '<span class="menu-desc">'. $tmp->name.'</span>';
}
}


change to :


if ($level == 0 && $this->getParam('menu_title')) {

$txt .= '<span class="menu-desc">'. $tmp->alias.'</span>';

}


[pgrandmontagne Friend pgrandmontagneJoin date: July 2007Posts: 25Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 3]

#269817

<em>@hainn84 78711 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi pgrandmontagne !
to show alias on description span , you can do it following way below :
…
</blockquote>

Hello hainn84,
I’ve done what you said, description span is empty now.
Maybe you can check the code again, please?

[jernejc Friend jernejcJoin date: July 2008Posts: 22Downloads:0Uploads:4 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 5 times in 4 posts]

#269991

The title alias would be a great solution for Joomla 1.0 as the page title parameter isn’t so common. Unfortunately the code fix above didn’t work for me either.

[jernejc Friend jernejcJoin date: July 2008Posts: 22Downloads:0Uploads:4 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 5 times in 4 posts]

#269994

For the title alias to be written out as the menu item description you need to add these lines:


//jernej
$sql="select title_alias from jos_content where id=$tmp->componentid";
$db=mysql_query($sql);
$x=mysql_fetch_assoc($db);
$title_alias=$x["title_alias"];

in ja_olivine/ja_menus/Base.class.php ( line 218 ) right after:


$data = null;
$tmp = $item;


And then replace $tmp->name here ( line 243 or 249ish after you add the code above ):


if ($level == 0 && $this->getParam('menu_title')) {
if ($this->getPageTitle($iParams)) {
$txt .= '<span class="menu-desc">'. $this->getPageTitle($iParams).'</span>';
} else {
$txt .= '<span class="menu-desc">'. $tmp->name.'</span>';
}
}

with: $title_alias

So it looks like this:


if ($level == 0 && $this->getParam('menu_title')) {
if ($this->getPageTitle($iParams)) {
$txt .= '<span class="menu-desc">'. $this->getPageTitle($iParams).'</span>';
} else {
$txt .= '<span class="menu-desc">'. $title_alias.'</span>';
}
}


The problem was that there is no “title_alias” field in the “jos_menu” table. So we have to get the value from the “jos_content” table.

This only solves the problem while you have ordinary content links. On the other hand though, most custom components have a parameter box on the right when you link them into a certain menu.

So if you want to set the page title parameter in that case, you just write into that box: “header=Your page title here” ( without the ” ), and that’s about it.

PS: that sql query above is a bit long, so if anyone knows an easier way, please share.. 🙂

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1. pgrandmontagne

[Sherlock Friend SherlockJoin date: September 2014Posts: 11453Downloads:0Uploads:88 Thanks: 221 Thanked: 2478 times in 2162 posts]

#270040

thanks jernejc !
your post is very helpful !

[trinhnfs Friend trinhnfsJoin date: March 2007Posts: 56Downloads:3Uploads:2 Thanks: 5 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#271111

Hi

Could you show me the easy way to disable the menu descriptions. I has done but nothing changed.

Thanks and Best Regards

Trinh

[Nathan L Zabaldo Friend Nathan L ZabaldoJoin date: September 2014Posts: 12Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#271248

Another alternative:

In Base.class.php around line 133 in the function genMenuItem:

Below the code:


$data = null;
$tmp = $item;

Add the Code:

$sql = 'select alias from jos_menu where id = ' . $tmp->id;
$db = mysql_query($sql);
$x = mysql_fetch_assoc($db);
$title_alias = $x["alias"];

Then in the same genMenuItem function around line 165:

Change the //Add page title to item code to:

//Add page title to item
if ($level == 0 && $this->getParam('menu_title')) {
if ($this->getPageTitle($iParams)) {
$txt .= '<span class="menu-desc">'. $title_alias.'</span>';
} else {
$txt .= '<span class="menu-desc">'. $title_alias.'</span>';
}
}

If you want to get rid of the alias and menu description code altogether just comment out the //Add page title to item block.

[pgrandmontagne Friend pgrandmontagneJoin date: July 2007Posts: 25Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 3]

#271870

Hi,
I’ve made changes as described in this post.
Seems I’ve got some sql problems:

<blockquote>Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/www/root/main/praxis/joomla1/templates/ja_olivine/ja_menus/Base.class.php on line 220</blockquote>

Anybody can help me?
Thanks a lot!

[jernejc Friend jernejcJoin date: July 2008Posts: 22Downloads:0Uploads:4 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 5 times in 4 posts]

#271886

Did you enter the title alias in your Joomla backend? The problem might occur because that field is empty.

[pgrandmontagne Friend pgrandmontagneJoin date: July 2007Posts: 25Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 3]

#271893

title alias is not empty and i’ve made no code-changes but yours :confused:

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