Thomas Stig Jacobsen's constant why

So If you read my previous post about the fact that Joomla sucks and why Joomla makes me so frustrated you properly thought I would be nice with some solutions on the problems stated.

So I created some hacks as answers, here goes:

A custom menu-maker operating in only one sub-level because that is what I needed. But if you need infinite sub-level just create a function from the code beneath.

 
$menu = JSite::getMenu();
foreach ($menu->getItems("parent", "0") as $item) {
	echo "
<li><a href="\"/$item-">link\">" . $item->name . "</a>";
	if ($menu->getItems("parent", $item->id)) {
		echo "
<ul>";
		echo "
 
";
		foreach ($menu->getItems("parent", $item->;id) as $subItem) {
			echo "
<li><a href="\"/$item-">link\">" . $subItem->name . "</a></li>
 
";
		}
		echo "
 
";
		echo "</ul>
 
";
	}
	echo "</li>
 
\n";
}

Please note that the menu items and the sub-level items is objects and not arrays of data.