[support] D6 Getting hook_menu_alter to fire

Jeff Greenberg listmail.ayendesigns at gmail.com
Tue Jun 5 19:17:16 UTC 2012


Thanks, both. I had been clearing cache, not just refreshing the page :-)
 but it turns out there is more than one level of caching to bust here.

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Kayode Odeyemi <dreyemi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Steve Edwards <killshot91 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > This hook is only fired when the menu router is rebuilt, so if you're
> just refreshing a page, it won't be invoked.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > On Jun 5, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Jeff Greenberg wrote:
> >
> >> I'm sure I've done something dumb, but I have the following in a
> typical custom module, in the .module file, and cannot get it to fire. Yes,
> I've cleared cache, and no, it's not what I *really* want to do in the
> hook...I just put the exit there to see it fire, since it wasn't doing
> anything else I asked it to.
> >>
> >> /**
> >>  * Implements hook_menu_alter()
> >>  */
> >> function mymodule_menu_alter(&$items) {
> >>     exit;
> >> }
>
> do this:
>
> function mymodule_menu_alter(&$items) {
>  dsm($items); // this will dump $items vars on all pages
> }
>
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