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Thanks Bodom78 - however, I have no problem creating the dropdown (I'm an experienced php/mySQL coder, just new to Joomla). The question is aimed at whether I can get these values into the parameters section of a Component menu item. Also, from my reading so far, Joomla 1.0x doesn't have the MVC fra...

Is there any way to dynamically set the values in the Parameters section of a menu item? Specifically, I'd like to populate a select field with options pulled through from a db. For example, I have the following in my component.xml <params> <param name="category" type="list" defa...