Create menu item in joomla programmatically - joomla

Question

I've created a Joomla 3 component that will add some menu items programmatically. I've searched how to do it and I found this old question/answer:
Programmatically Create Menu Item in Joomla
It suggest to use this code:
//add the article to a menu item
$menuTable = JTable::getInstance('Menu', 'JTable', array());
$menuData = array(
'menutype' => 'client-pages',
'title' => $data[name],
'type' => 'component',
'component_id' => 22,
'link' => 'index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id='.$resultID,
'language' => '*',
'published' => 1,
'parent_id' => '1',
'level' => 1,
);
// Bind data
if (!$menuTable->bind($menuData))
{
$this->setError($menuTable->getError());
return false;
}
// Check the data.
if (!$menuTable->check())
{
$this->setError($menuTable->getError());
return false;
}
// Store the data.
if (!$menuTable->store())
{
$this->setError($menuTable->getError());
return false;
}
It works but have the same problem as shown on the question I linked.
Showing the error: Warning: str_repeat() [function.str-repeat]: Second argument has to be greater than or equal to 0 in .....
And someone suggest this solution I can't understand.
Try using JTableNested::setLocation($referenceId, $position = 'after'):
$table->setLocation($parent_id, 'last-child');
I also think that you need to rebuild the path:
// Rebuild the tree path.
if (!$table->rebuildPath($table->id)) {
$this->setError($table->getError());
return false;
}
Could someone explain me where to use that solution?