Online Tips for Web Developer/Designer

When you started your Joomla 2.5 package, if you start your package with empty content while you install.
You may run into this situation. You are not able to create new menu item.

When you try to save your menu item, you will get this message.

Save failed with the following error: MenusTableMenu: :_getNode Failed –

The Problem: The issue is that in the menu table the record with id = 1 is missing and not migrated over. This record is important to the creation of new menu items.

The Solution: Add the record back into the database.

For example:

• My database name = MyJoomlaDatabase
• My prefix is = mjd17_

Follow the steps below to fix this Joomla error message:

1. Login to your webhosting control panel.
2. Click on the phpMyAdmin, login to your database
3. Click on the SQL tab
4. Copy the query below and paste it in the textbox. REPLACE the database name and prefix in italics with your own.
5. 5. Click on the ‘GO’ button.

INSERT INTO `DATABASE_NAME`.`c7gzy_menu` (`id` ,`menutype` ,`title` ,`alias` ,`note` ,`path` ,`link` ,`type` ,`published` ,`parent_id` ,`level` ,`component_id` ,`ordering` ,`checked_out` ,`checked_out_time` ,`browserNav` ,`access` ,`img` ,`template_style_id` ,`params` ,`lft` ,`rgt` ,`home` ,`language` ,`client_id` ) VALUES ( '1', '', 'Menu_Item_Root', 'root', '', '', '', '', '1', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0000-00-00 00:00:00', '0', '0', '', '0', '', '0', '0', '0', '*', '0')

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