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I think something like this should be incorporated in the Joomla core! I found only one drawback so far: I could not install two or more instances of this module on the same page.

Hi

I've used this on a number of 1.5 sites and it's great. However, I'm trying to develop a website in 1.7 as I need the additional categories features and it produces the following error:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/*****/public_html/modules/mod_autgen_menu/tmpl/default.php on line 20

Then after editing it a little:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/*****/public_html/modules/mod_autgen_menu/tmpl/default.php on line 39

I know this isn't the right place to post but couldn't find any method of contacting the developer through their website and I thought they might like to look into it...

simple "plug & play"

Having used this module for a couple of sites now, I love it! Saves so much time from having to create menu links to articles manually, when this does it all for you dynamically. Plus, if you change the article/section/cat name, the menu link is changed at the same time!! Invaluable.

The only thing that was missing though, was the ability of having an active state so the user can see the page currently on. After much head scratching and searching, I found an unofficial update to 2.3 and now have active states, at last!!

I tried this extension in Joomla 1.5.23 with my modified JoomlaShack "Cloud 9" template. It is just what I wanted: to display linked titles to all the articles in a category, and do this in a sidebar.

I did try core Joomla's Category List Layout, and that did display my list of article titles, but on a full page, not quite what I wanted. I thought core Joomla would have a way to display the article titles in a sidebar, but I could find no such thing.

I would like to see an option to order the articles by date of publication, so newest can be placed at the top. Instead, I set the module parameters -> Article ordering to "By order as set in administration" and then in Article Manager ordered the articles by publication date. That gave the effect I wanted, but when I add new articles I'll need to check the article ordering in article manager.

It installed easily and was easy to configure, worked like other modules.

It was a little difficult for me to style the module to get the look I wanted (CSS changes). It might be helpful to specify a unique class in the unordered list, so I can more easily specify CSS selectors to style this module. In the template I was using, I changed items in the syle sheet whose selectors began with "#sidebar2" to change the styles of the unordered list in the module (thanks to firebug!). My website has few other modules, so I don't know what other modules these style changes would affect.

Thank you to Jan Zikmund for writing this extension, and for writing it to work with Joomla 1.6 too.

I installed the module in Joomla 1.5.20 with no problems at all. It works!! Use module for Joomla user who don't understand the differences between articles/categories/sections and menu.

Thank you for the great work

I have been looking for a way to automatically create a menu with the Section / Category / Article structure. This is not complex, so It's easy, once it is set up.

I am also running into the timestamp bug that lcdweb pointed out. For the new article to show up in the menu, I need to change the publish date to a day earlier.

lcdweb, which $now entry did you change? This is what I have in the helper.php:

$now = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', time());

// $date = new JDate();

// $now = $date->toMySQL();

//jimport('joomla.utilities.date');

//$now = JFactory::getDate()->toFormat('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S');

Very helpful to have on a site. Only shortcoming is that 4 or more modules cannot be displayed with different configurations on one site.

Nice module. Has some shortcomings, but can be very useful, and I'd love to see a more mature version evolve into core.

One bug I ran into -- the timestamp is pulled directly from the server rather than from Joomla, so it doesn't respect the global config timezone settings. This can be problematic as articles may/may not be listed correctly based on the publish up/down dates.

In helper.php, change $now to:
$now = $mainframe->get('requestTime');

This is a great extension keep it coming!
Just a suggestion for a future update please can you give the functionality to randomize the order of the articles in the menu.
This is exactly what I was looking for except for that one thing.
Thanks!!!

well, as from my part, this module works as stated, it allows me to create menu links from categories, i have no problem in its sef, works great with sef extensions, im using artio's

i just wish i can edit its position and create a submenu.

works as stated, but i find it unsuitable as you cannot hide menu titles and - which results in a double-up of page headers and the fact that the first article is displayed on top with following articles displayed in 2 columns beneath it...good concept but needs expanding.

This module installed with ease and immediately started to work as advertised. However there are a MAJOR shortfall.

Selecting link by category defaults to the Joomla category blog layout default with no way of customizing. If you do not mind having your category blog layout as big article on top with two columns underneath with NO category description, then this module is for you.

Also, the developer's site has no forum for raising questions. The rest of the site is in Czech.

This is a must have module, unfortunately it does not support the breadcrumb(?) so I cannot use it personally.

I agree with a previous reviewer, this really ought to be in the core offering.

Fantastic module, easy to use, 'nuff said!

Really; this is the basic sort of functionality that you would expect Joomla to ship with out of the box.

And this module does a pretty good job of patching over that oversight.

Unfortunately, it evidently doesn't generate its links in quite the right way, as it doesn't obey the built in SEF urls settings.
Its a shame as thats really the only omission in this extension (but its kind of a big one).

But again; if you can figure why this sin't in core Joomla!, you're a cleverer person than I...

What a time saver. You select the Section/Category for the module and the menu names and links are automatically created!

It automatically grabs your article title, with various sorting options.

If possible, I would award author Jan Zikmund an Oscar for Best Written Automatically Generated Menu". Take your bow, Jan!

Great module! Simple, but very effective. This is a great tool for your users to easily browse through arctiles: at any point, you can show them what other articles are available in the same section. No need for them to browse back to a section list or section blog layout. As soon as the author adds the possibility to have this module display all articles in ONE category, instead of all categories in a section, this module will be a must-have for every Joomla site.