[drupal-devel] menu system idea

[Adrian Rossouw]

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Instead of defining menu's as we do now (using 'path' => ) , why  
don't we skip the entire building a tree thing and just define the  
menu entries as trees to begin with?

ie :
$menu['node']['add']['blog'][ITEM] = array(title => t('blog entry'),  
access => user_access('edit own blog'));
$menu['blog'][ITEM] = array(title => t('blogs'), callback =>  
'blog_page', access => user_access('access content'), type =>  
MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM);

(ITEM would just be a define('ITEM', '__item') to avoid namespace  
conflicts.)

This would mean we could 'build' the menu, just by :

$_menu = array();
foreach (module_implements('menu') as $module) {
    $_menu = array_merge_recursive($_menu, module_invoke($module,  
'menu'));
}

Furthermore, we could solve the multiple menu tree requirement by  
defining menu items for the primary navigation such as :
$menu[PRIMARY]['node']['add']['blog'] = array(title => t('new  
post!'), access => user_access('edit own blog'));

It might also simplify the menu system to the point where mere  
mortals can understand it =)


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Adrian Rossouw
Drupal developer and Bryght Guy
http://drupal.org | http://bryght.com


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