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

Somehow $menutable does not update parent_id and level in database table so you have to manually update those two fields by joomla query.

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

        $menuData = 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' => '1',
            'level' => 1,
        );

        // Bind data
        if (!$menuTable->bind($menuData))
        {
            $this->setError($menuTable->getError());
            return false;
        }

        // Check the data.
        if (!$menuTable->check())
        {
            $this->setError($menuTable->getError());
            return false;
        }

        // Store the data.
        if (!$menuTable->store())
        {
            $this->setError($menuTable->getError());
            return false;
        }

        $db   = $this->getDbo();
        $qry = "UPDATE `#__menu` SET `parent_id` = 1 , `level` = 1 WHERE `id` = ".$menuTable->id;
        $db->setQuery($qry);
        $db->query();