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#21238 Admin Tools Pro rearranges menu

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Latest post by nicholas on Thursday, 16 October 2014 16:33 CDT

user81551
 Problem: Whenever Admin Tools Pro is updated, it rearranges our menu. This has been occurring for the last several versions.

This is intensely annoying. Is there any way to prevent it from happening?

user81551
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DB version: 5.5.31-MariaDB
PHP Version: 5.4.17

Admin Tools Pro 3.3

Any help on a remedy for this issue would be appreciated.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Admin Tools does not –and, honestly, cannot– touch your menu at all.

Supposing that you are talking about the Components menu, the only place where Admin Tools appears (on a menu item added by Joomla! itself) the "item reordering" happens for at least 3 and a half years and has nothing to do with Admin Tools and everything to do with the way Joomla! 2.5 orders its menu items, something considered a bug and fixed in Joomla! 3. Joomla! 2.5 will order the Components menu items based on their translation key as seen in the title column of the #__menu table where the level column equals 1.

As you can see, all Joomla! core components and all properly written components have a title which begins with COM_. Some components have menu items whose title does not begin with COM_. Therefore, the COM_ items will appear first and the other items whose first letter comes after C will appear next. This works well when the language is English and all components' menu items' title begins with COM_. Things get funky when you are using a different language and/or when you have items with titles not beginning with COM_.

As I said, this was considered a bug and was fixed in Joomla! 3. Joomla! 3 will order the component menu items based on the translated title. Also as I said this has been the case for several years and has nothing to do with Admin Tools itself. It's how Joomla! works. If you upgrade to Joomla! 3 which fixed this bug you will see that your menu items work just fine.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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