I am still working on the demo content sub-module for Organic Groups. I'd like to add a menu item during the installation process. How do I do that?
Specifically, I've created a view page called "groups" and I'd like a menu link in the main menu to "groups."
Found the solution: Needed to add the 'customized' key to the $item array, with a value of 1.
$item = array(
'link_path' => 'media/photos',
'link_title' => t('Photos'),
'customized' => 1,
);
menu_link_save($item);
My initial goal was to create a menu item that linked to a view that I had configured and that was being created on installation of the module, by including the view config file.
To do this, I just needed to configure the menu link in the view before exporting the config file and the link is created automatically.
You can create a view simply by including the config file in the module config directory.
To create a link to a existing node, one can look at the standard install profile in core for some excellent sample code.
// Create a Home link in the main menu.
$item = array(
'link_title' => st('Home'),
'link_path' => '<front>',
'menu_name' => 'main-menu',
'weight' => -1,
);
menu_link_save($item);
// Create a login link in the account menu.
$item = array(
'link_title' => st('Login'),
'link_path' => 'user/login',
'menu_name' => 'user-menu',
'weight' => -1,
);
menu_link_save($item);
// Update the menu router information.
menu_rebuild();
Just using this old post of mine to create a new menu link.
Today, I programmatically created a "Contact Us" webform as part of a recipe and wanted to create a link to the webform.
Using the code I posted above, with 'link_path" => 'contact-us' did not work.
It seems, I need the NID and to create the link as 'link_path => 'node/' . NID'
I was able to get it working with this code:
$webform->save();
$nid = $webform->nid;
$link = array(
'link_title' => st('Contact Us'),
'link_path' => 'node/' . $nid,
'menu_name' => 'main-menu',
'weight' => 5,
);
menu_link_save($link);
I'm trying to do this also with a layout and some views, with no luck. I create the views and include them in the config directory of the module, as well as the layout. Then create the menu links within in the hook_install function. The proper entries are created in the menu_links and menu_router tables. However, whenever I run menu_rebuild(), the entries in the menu_links disappear, but not the ones in the menu_router. What's going on?
Found the solution: Needed to add the 'customized' key to the $item array, with a value of 1.
$item = array(
'link_path' => 'media/photos',
'link_title' => t('Photos'),
'customized' => 1,
);
menu_link_save($item);
My initial goal was to create a menu item that linked to a view that I had configured and that was being created on installation of the module, by including the view config file.
To do this, I just needed to configure the menu link in the view before exporting the config file and the link is created automatically.
You can create a view simply by including the config file in the module config directory.
To create a link to a existing node, one can look at the standard install profile in core for some excellent sample code.
// Create a Home link in the main menu. $item = array( 'link_title' => st('Home'), 'link_path' => '<front>', 'menu_name' => 'main-menu', 'weight' => -1, ); menu_link_save($item); // Create a login link in the account menu. $item = array( 'link_title' => st('Login'), 'link_path' => 'user/login', 'menu_name' => 'user-menu', 'weight' => -1, ); menu_link_save($item); // Update the menu router information. menu_rebuild();