Add javascript to a Joomla menu item
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- Roger Davis
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I'd like to add some javascript to a menu item...this would let me save a cookie and get it's value later...like so:
<a class='portal' href="index.php/portals" onclick="javascript:Cookie.write('disease', 'amblyopia');">Amblyopia</a>
But how to get the onclick event into the menu item from within Joomla? Doesn't appear that this is allowed.
Ideas?
Roger
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You will have to use some third party extensions for that. For example, I would use ReReplacer extension
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- Roger Davis
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Thanks, Rereplacer is a good temporary solution. My fear is that it would slow down the site, since it searches the whole text of every page, every page load.
Surprised there's not a menu module out there that does this already.
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You can try to use one Joomla bug with "External URL" menu type
Here is how:
1. create one menu item with External URL menu type
2. for Link parameter put EXACTLY the following (do not change anything)
index.php/portals" onclick="javascript:Cookie.write('disease', 'amblyopia');"
That could work since it uses, as I said, one bug present in Joomla. On the other hand, it could stop working in the future if joomla bug squad decide to fix this bug
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- Roger Davis
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Wow, great solution... So...why is it a bug if it's so useful?
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Is it working for you? It is a bug because in that way you can put almost anything in link parameter and that is just wrong. Better would be to create additional link parameters which could be validated then
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