 Passing parameters from menu item
Hello!
I have been playing around with the z00m gallery component, which is now pretty nice.
I do have a problem though....in Mambo everything works through the special menu components, right? Mambo keeps track of in which place it is by knowing what menu items that have been clicked. In order to spec what template to have on one view, one has to have gotten there by clicking a menu item, for instance.
So I want to create a menu that links to a special category in the z00m gallery. It is not so hard to do it the simple way: just create a menu item of the type link-url and paste what you see in firefox address window when you are looking at that place. It is com_zoomblablablaItemid=92&catid=1 or something like that. I.e, it is the url for opening the component ("itemid=92") and with &someparameters at the end.
However, this is not really a mambo menu. You can't set what modules that will be visible when you click it, for instance.
One can however make a normal mambo menu that links to the component itself. It looks like com_zoomblablablaItemid=92, i.e. like previous, but without the parameters.
So...is there a way of making a menu item of the type component or component item and also passing some parameters in the generated url? It wouldn't be hard to fix, and it would make life a looooot easier for people accessing components from a menu (which is the way things should work in mambo due to the important role of menues in mambo).
There is a box in the tab for parameters in the menu item settings, but I don't know what it does. If I write something there, it doesn't show up in the generated url.
Is this something the component writer has to fix? | 
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