[support] Drupal 6 Menus don't work for me

[John Summerfield]

On 05/21/12 02:53, steeph wrote:
> On 05/20/2012 08:37 PM, John Summerfield wrote:
>> He was using rootcandy.
> He used rootcandy as an admin theme. This is only used for admin
> pages/paths. I don't know what theme it was with the menu, sorry.
>
>> However, I had a look at the data in the table menu_links and that does
>> make sense and looks wholly consistent with what I expect.
> I don't think there is something wrong with your database. You just


It seemed to me, and still does, that the menus are configured to 
expand. I examined the data as a diagnostic technique, to see whether I 
could believe they are expandable.

> don't have a drop-down menu ;) If your theme doesn't have this feature
> the easiest way to get it is probably to install a module like
> https://drupal.org/project/nice_menus.
>
>

Thanks for your efforts to help me. I was unwilling to believe that menu 
functionality incorporated into base Drupal isn't actually usable with 
any standard theme.

I happened to have a fresh virtual CentOS6 system to hand so I installed 
the necessary software to run D6 and D7 and set up one of each with just 
the base Drupal software, no additional modules and tested the menus.

In both cases, I can configure primary/main menus that are expandable, 
but that do not expand.

The Mannelli theme does expand the menus on D7, but not on D6.

Eventually, I have taken your advice and installed nice_menus and it 
does work nicely in the Navigation block.