Drupal Menu Hell(p)
I recently had to implement what seemed like a very simple feature for a client, moving several of the local tasks located on a user's profile page into the site's primary menu. The menu paths in question are dynamic, E.g, /user/%/edit, /user/%/orders, /user/%/notifications, etc., which at first seemed like slight complication. So how to tackle this? At first blush, one might think that you can just use the Menu module to add a dynamic menu item though the GUI or menu API. Well, that won't work. You can only create a menu item that way for an existing path that you have access to. Luckily, Drupal provides a hook that seems like the perfect solution,
<?php
function hook_menu_alter(&$items) {
// Example - disable the page at node/add
$items['node/add']['access callback'] = FALSE;
}
?>Great, so I can change the type of the menu items I want to alter by doing something like the code below and problem solved!
<?php
function mymodule_menu_alter(&$items) {
$items['user/%user/edit']['type'] = MENU_NORMAL_ITEM;
}
?>