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

Try using JTableNested::setLocation($referenceId, $position = 'after'):

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

I also think that you need to rebuild the path:

// Rebuild the tree path.
if (!$table->rebuildPath($table->id)) {
    $this->setError($table->getError());
    return false;
}

If it still doesn't work, try to find out what MenusModelItem::save does that you don't.