Programmatically Create Menu Item in Joomla

Question

I have created a component in joomla 2.5 that creates a new article and adds that article to a menu item.

Creating the article is working fine, but I am having some

Answer 1

$table->setLocation($parent_id, 'last-child');

is all that is needed to ensure that left/right values are created correctly for the new menu item. There is no need to rebuild the path as this is now handled by JTableMenu's store method.

Additionally, the convenience method "save" can be used to bind, check and store the menu item:

$menuItem = array(
            'menutype' => 'client-pages',
            'title' => $data[name],
            'type' => 'component',
            'component_id' => 22,                  
            'link' => 'index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id='.$resultID,
            'language' => '*',
            'published' => 1,
            'parent_id' => $parent_id,
            'level' => 1,
        );

$menuTable = JTable::getInstance('Menu', 'JTable', array());

$menuTable->setLocation($parent_id, 'last-child');

if (!$menuTable->save($menuItem)) {
    throw new Exception($menuTable->getError());
    return false;
}