Save menu links programatically in drupal 7 befused. It is possible to add menu links that are not enabled in the content type using the first method below. There are two conceptual ways to do this but i dont know how to execute them in drupal. This process creates a link to the internal canonical drupal path to the content. One labeled log in or whatever you prefer with the drupal path of userlogin the other labeled log out or whatever you prefer with the drupal path of userlogout. This might be because they are familiar with it because it was also very popular in drupal 6, and it might because. Before you begin ensure that the menus module is activated. The problem is, drupal menus do not allow for dynamic paths to be used for menu items. If you ever change your domain or alter the destination pages alias pattern, this internal link will still work. Welcome to part two of the menu creation tutorial series. Drupal s menu system lets you define an arbitrary number of menu items in a hierarchy, each of which is a link to somewhere in the site or on another site. During my research, i put together an er diagram of the schema installed by drupal 7 d8 is very similar with only 3 extra tables at time of writing and decided to share my work. Many configuration screens in the drupal admin area refer to paths.
Megamenu takes a drupal menu that is 3 levels deep, and converts it into a categorized 3level megadropdownstyle menu, which can be placed into your theme as a block. Thats great, unless you want to have a menu tree that has items in it which are not, in fact, links. Combining ckeditor and ckeditor link modules is our favorite way to handle internal path and link creation within drupal. At our previous tutorial we have described about drupal 7 installation, configuration, and basic setup. Drupal 8 has become much more flexible for doing pretty much everything. To do this log in to the admin panel of your drupal, click on the structure tab in the top navigation bar and on the page that opens click on menus. Adding links to menus we can add or edit the links of any menu in drupalgap using the appsettings. Duplicating main navigation menus links in a site sidebar block. I wasnt able to create a link pointing to user%user and putting this link into the menu block top navigation. The same applies for every other path regarding views, e. You could 1 use the menu icons module or 2 add a simple theming function in your theme add the following theming function to your template. The page title will be displayed in the menu link title.
For example, say we want to add a few links to the main menu that will link to some internal drupalgap pages the page for node 123 and the page for user 1. The next page will display a table with the existing menus. Yup, youre correct because views will override the menu entry for taxonomyterm% when a view is activated which has the same path. The simplest path to a drupal local environment by. Under the parent item dropdown, select the section of the site you where want your new pages menu button to. But local tasks do not appear in menu trees, so if the current path is a local task, and this link is its tab root, then we have to set the class manually. While searching for information on drupal s schema, i found very little. Knowledgebase how to add and edit menus and menu links in drupal. How to use images for menu items in drupal with a simple. Managing drupal menus, menu links, and custom menu settings and options. In this tutorial we will discuss about creation of page, content and menu in drupal 7.
When building sites, often we want to add a menu item that links to a users account page. User account pages are dynamic paths with the format useruid. I can examine the array but want to understand what these items are. In this article i want to talk a bit about menu links and show you how powerful the new system is compared to drupal 7. This tutorial is going to show you how to create a separator menu item in drupal 7 template. How to create mega menu in drupal using tb mega menu module. At this point, we have already created a new menu in drupal 7 and are ready to add links to it. This drupal 7 tutorial describes how to create a custom menu and position it using blocks, also how to make the menu only appear on the page you. However, many people prefer to use the administration menu module. That is a fallback from trying and failing to get views to make a block that displays a list of the users unread messages and links to each message. Basic interaction with the new menu system is configurationdriven by appropriately named yaml files. How to use images for menu items in drupal with a simple preprocessing function. In drupal you can edit any of the existing menus and you can create new menus. For a link to an anchor on the current page that is, a link that works on every page the menu link is displayed on, you can use the menu token module.
If the link you plan to add leads to a drupal node, first be sure your menu is enabled in the nodes content type. The default menu module does not allow you to add a menu item without menu path. To be able to create a menu item without link, you need to install additional special menu items module. Im relatively new to drupal internals and most of the work i do is on the database side. If you have a homepage on dev as node 7, but on staging the homepage is node9, and on prod its node19, it can be extremely difficult to move menus across environments. User can create a new menu item and place either or to the path field, without quotes. Drupal 7 adding custom menus to pages stack overflow. Once that is installed together with the modules that it requires, you will be able to set the link path to.
In drupal development, menu items get explicitly linked to node id, rather than aliases. One solution is to link to the path user, which will redirect the user to their account page. Here are some examples of paths you might find in a drupal site. Drupal 7 did get a new toolbar and overlay to make it easier to use. This post is part of a series of posts on making changes in drupal programmatically rather than in the drupal interface in this tutorial, we will look at saving menu items programmatically. In the past we would ftp the file to the server and just set the path to link directly to that file.
I dont know why drush cc menu didnt clean them out, perhaps a policy of not deleting data just in case. If you do, you will find that certain changes can cause your link to disappear from the assigned menu. However if i set its path to nodeaddblog it wont appear under the foo menu. Typically they have something like a pdf brochure that they want to be downloadable from a primary menu link or linked to from within another node. So if you want to ensure your menus work properly under drupal 7. In the menu settings, check the provide a menu link option.
Even though you might specify a menu link to point to home, the backend will store it as node 7. Several scenarios for this exist, including parent categories and section separators. Superfish integrates jquery superfish plugin with your drupal menus. A lot of times our clients want to link a menu item directly to a file for download. Simply choose the menu youd like and add two adjacent links to the menu admin structure menus. I have been developing with drupal 7 for the past 4 months now, and i cant seem to find a straight answer as to how to add more menus on my pages. Creating menus in drupal 7 part 2 adding links and.
Im using it to send users to their system messages page via notifications. This can be an internal drupal path such as nodeadd or page. For instance, when adding a new menu link to a menu, you tell drupal what page the menu item should point to using the path for that page. Hostknox knowledgebase how to add and edit menus and. Do you want to show images in menu items in drupal 7. Here are the same drupal 7 paths as above from the user module in drupal 8.