$menu->setActive() not setting all menus

[Dayo]

Hi all,

I managed to muddle my way, with some help, to a solution for this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12018741/where-is-itemid-used-to-flag-active-menu-item-in-joomla-2-5-6/12020507#12020507

That is, by adding "$menu->setActive(XYZ)" to my component controller.php, I am able to get the Main Menu in the side bar to correctly be highlighted.

My issue is that when I try a theme from RocketTheme, I notice the are some other menus linked to main menu but that these are not highlighted.

I would have thought using the setActive would affect all menus but it seems not.

Can anyone kindly help nudge me in the right direction?

Thanks.

[elin]

I believe that you are only allowed to have one active link on any rendered page according to W3C standards. Sometimes people use a work around to use another setting besides active and style it to appear active.

Elin

[Dayo]

Thanks for that.

I am actually trying to make sure I have the same highlighted active link.

What is happening now is that some menus show the item I passed using "$menu->setActive(XYZ)" and other show the default "Home".

I want them to all show the same XYZ item.

Thanks again.

[Dan YJ]

if ($menu->getActive() == $menu->getDefault()) {  //   $menu->getDefault( )  this is homepage 

build condition for homepage link only with snippet above

On Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:17:52 UTC-4, Dan YJ wrote:

On Monday, August 20, 2012 3:06:07 PM UTC-4, Dayo wrote:

get it by current itemid
$menu = $app->getMenu();
if ($menu->getActive() == JRequest::getCmd('Itemid') == 155 ) {
        $active_link =' iam_active';
}