Using tokens in a menu link

I'm trying to do exactly the same thing. Would love to see a solution for this!

Erik Britt-Webb
drupal@ebrittwebb.com

+1 on this.

I'm trying to do the same thing and haven't figured it out yet, did either of you?

Similar solution implemented by menu_token.module.

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Fernando @DevElCuy

Excellent

Has anybody figured this out for 6.x?

I needed to do this on a site I'm building too. So I created a simple redirect.php page.

For example I made a link in the nav menu that would take the user directly to their user/edit page. I pointed the menu item to my redirect.php and it sent them to an evaluated redirected url. It's pretty fast and seamless too. Hope this helps until some makes this for Drupal 6.

nice hack

I'm looking for the same thing in D6. I would love to show a menu title as a token. In my case i want to show the user name.

The Real Name module can provide that link in the Nav menu title.

Nancy Dru

Nancy Dru

Try the me aliases module.

Thanks

user id in menu


function phptemplate_menu_item_link($link)
{
if (empty($link['localized_options'])) {
$link['localized_options'] = array();
}
//Make all external Links "_blank"
if ( isset($link['href']) && substr($link['href'], 0, 4) == 'http' )
{
$link['localized_options']['attributes']['target'] = '_blank';
}
//Use Tokens
if ( module_exists('token') )
{
$link['href'] = token_replace( $link['href'],'global' );
$link['title'] = token_replace( $link['title'],'global' );
}
return l($link['title'], $link['href'], $link['localized_options']);
}

Erik

Erik Seifert

I'm also interested in this (for Drupal 6), but not just for tokens. I'm just trying to pass an argument into a URL based on a view page path that uses an argument. For example, a view path of /documents/% where % is the user's userID. I can then browse to a URL of www.mysite.com/documents/userID to see the view of that user's documents. Now I want that view in a menu which is where I run into the challenge since the path is different per URL. The menu will only appear on the page of the user that 'owns' that view, so I can get the argument to pass to the menu without a hitch. But how do I pass it to the menu? My problem is that Drupal's menuing system does not seem to accept /documents/% as a path and instead kicks back an invalid path error when I try to add that as a menu item in Admin -> Site Building -> Menus.

The Me module won't work in this case since it deals with the logged in user, and I need this to work for any userID that is passed as an argument in the URL. I looked at Path Redirect but this also didn't seem like the right fit. Menu token would work great by pulling a userID token, but it's D5 only so it's not an option for me. That brought me to this page as well as this comment: http://drupal.org/node/201848#comment-761771

Unfortunately, menu_item_link has been removed in D6 so that isn't an option either.

Does anyone happen to have a suggestion in this case? What's the preferred approach to passing a dynamic argument to a Drupal menu in D6?

FWIW, I have full root access to my server with no limitations whatsoever in terms of installing modules, modifying themes, changing configs, etc.

anyone figured out a way?

alan t

+1 on this.

This should be straighforward! If I can make a view with an argument in the URL, I should be able to make a menu item to point to that view.

Suggestions appreciated...

I have the following in a module for all my custom functions (D6 BTW)

Then the menu I put something like :blog/user . This changes to blog/user/33 for user 33.

The : at the beginning is to fool the menu it to believing it is an external link so it doesn't check it at save time. At run time the translation strips that and adds the current user id. Of course you can expand the processing to change an end token and replace that but since I just want the user id I don't bother.

Of course this only works for D6 menu. href links in the code have to be constructed with php.

Thanks

Thanks

This is something I am surprised no one has managed. There's Menu Token which is apparently having difficulties porting to D6, and Custom Links which works for D6 but does not integrate with menu.

If I was a stronger coder who understood drupal better I would be working on this.

Can't figure out a way to to it at the module level, but I went for a theme level solution for now...

...however, be aware that this does not rebuild using all options that might be on the link... like fragments and queries, etc.

+1

I went for a theme level solution too..

it would also be good to have the ability of making contextual rules for menu items visibility

Need the same for d6

D6 - this is on template.php, this code will get the current user id if your link path is set to the dummy node (for example node/219 or any node), so, you menu link will look like Member Account Information...

I tried the theme level solution.
Works, but the active-trail would not be set, that i needed to theme the menu list. the active class for the link is set, but i need it also for the li.

i haven't figured out another way yet. hope somebody have a good idea...

Active trail

breadcrumbs

If you're using the theme function override method above to expand tokens in your menu labels, and you're also using the SimpleMenu module, this note is for you.

The latest version of SimpleMenu (6.x-1.13) skips the menu theming functions by default, so you may notice your [token] shows up in the menu instead of the token value after an update. To fix this issue, go to the SimpleMenu Settings form and check the box labeled "Allow Simplemenu to call the theme() function."

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Put this in your settings.php and it will rewrite /user/non-numeric as user/uid/non-numeric:

CAVEATS:

1. This won’t work in all configurations. YMMV.
2. When this is called by the menu system to validate a URL, it returns an absolute URL (http://...), and the menu system will store the absolute result. This bypasses all local access validation and the menu item will not be automatically hidden if the referenced URL is unavailable to the current (logged-in or anonymous) user.

http://drupal.org/project/token_request_params

If you are using tokens you can use Tokenize Request Parameters module along with the Menu Token module (http://drupal.org/project/menu_token) to configure this sort of functionality without the need to code a new module. Tokenize Request Parameter allows you to define what URL parameters to convert into tokens. It makes the tokens available to any token module that consumes tokens (Token Filter, Token Menu, Rules, etc.)

Hope that helps.

nice

I'm currently trying to find a solution that will allow me to create a menu item as follows
og/users/[nid]
(where [nid] is the node id of the organic groups node the user is currently viewing)

I've tried all sorts of things, and the php redirect option mentioned above sounds like it may be just the ticket, unfortunately, as I'm not a PHP programmer I wouldn't really know where to start!

Any help would be massively appreciated!

use rules

I had the very same problem (using D7).
Solved it by deploying the Menu token module. It shows a neat overview of the available tokens in the menu editor.
I now link to the user's IMCE page using this path:
user/[current-user:uid]/imce

I'm using Menu Token but the menu item doesn't appear?

I am using the menu token module with no issues. I think the tokens have changed. I used 'user/[user-id]/example' to get mine to work.

It's possible to use a token in a shortcut?

Shortcut?

In drupal 7, in the toolbar I want a shortcut that link to path="user/[uid]/orders"

Thanks.

Use the menu token module.. simple and beautiful little tool that does the trick

http://drupal.org/project/menu_token

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