Menu trashed and can not publish after 3.7.0 update

The fix that works for me

Delete all trashed menus permanently from the Joomla Admin
In this case the root menu normally gets deleted or was missing from some earlier migration

Re insert it with the query below

INSERT INTO `yourprefix_menu` (`id`, `menutype`, `title`, `alias`, `note`, `path`, `link`, `type`, `published`, `parent_id`, `level`, `component_id`, `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, '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 0, 0, '', 0, '', 0, 0, 0, '', 0);

Logging is very useful!!! :)

//Write action to txt log
 $log = "User: ".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].' - '.date("F j, Y, g:i a").PHP_EOL.
 "Connection: ".print_r($connection).PHP_EOL.
 "Request: ".print_r($request,true).PHP_EOL.
 "Response: ".print_r($response,true).PHP_EOL.
 "-------------------------".PHP_EOL;
 //-
 #print 'Debug Line '.__LINE__.' $log <pre>'; print_r ($log); print "</pre><br />\n";
// one level higher  dirname(__DIR__, 1)
 $fp = fopen(dirname(__DIR__).'/LOGS/ST_log'.date("j.n.Y").'.txt', 'a+');
 fwrite( $fp, $log );
 fwrite($fp, "\n\n###########################################\n\n");
 fclose($fp);

Just for my own info - how a delete works from the Joomla Admin

We have upgraded our VirtueMart 3.0 Postcode - ZIP code?Shipping Plugin to be fully compatible with VirtueMart 3 and Joomla 3.x.


You can download it here -?Download?Price is ?40.00
You can download the full instruction PDF here: GJC_Postcode_Shipping_Virtuemart_3.pdf

Our very popular?Australian Post VirtueMart 3.0 Shipping Plugin has just had another upgrade.

The latest version is 3.4.1

26.08.2014
Full rewrite for Virtuemart 3.0 & Joomla 3.0

# logo choose on cheapest v1.2.7 08.01.2014
# added discount v1.2.8 18.01.2014
# heavy rewrite - eliminated extra cURL calls v1.2.9 26.04.2014
# insurance added v1.2.9 26.04.2014
# small bug in height/vol calc fixed v1.3.0 17.07.2014

# complete rewrite for Joomla3/VM3 26.08.2014? v3.3.1

# complete rewrite of conditions 28.08.2014 v3.3.2
# plgVmDeclarePluginParamsShipmentVM3 15.10.2014 v3.3.3
# added discount trigger level 09.03.2015 v3.3.4

# added overweight routine 12.11.2015 v3.3.5
# new Int codes 14.06.2016 v3.3.6
# new endpoint urls https://digitalapi.auspost.com.au 28.06.2016 v3.3.7
# fix for latest ShipTo address select / postcode in display 14.09.2016 v3.3.8
# weights in display, volume fix, mm heights 24.09.2016 v3.3.9
# updater server entered 01.01.2017 v3.4.0
# $address call changed : $address = $cart -> getST(); line 236 & 866 28.01.2017 v3.4.1?

This is all selectable in the plugin configuration.?

You can download it here -?Download?Price is ?40.00

Have seen this quite a few times especially on upgrades from Joomla 1.6 or 1.7. the quick icons for the joomla version and extensions updates are missing from the control panel and no menu for the Joomla Updater. There can also be messages such as 'Error loading component: com_joomlaupdate'.

Here's an easy way to find which file didn't copy - then at least you can troubleshoot why.

Here's a list of Joomla code snippets so that I don't have to search the forums every time I need one!