[development] Two tiered menus in D7 when the top level is user specific
Rob Thorne
rob at torenware.com
Tue Mar 22 00:55:03 UTC 2011
I'm looking into a two tiered menu in a D7 application where the second
level of the menu is standard, but the top level is different for every
user.
To make this concrete, suppose the user is a teacher at a school where
the teacher uses multiple rooms, and needs to order materials for each
room separately. Each teacher has a separate list of rooms, but the the
pages we track -- class lists, crafts inventory, furniture... are the
same for each room.
So for teacher A, we might have a set of menus like this:
* Room 220
o Class List
o Crafts Inventory
o Furniture
* Room 221
o Class List
o Crafts Inventory
o Furniture
and so on. It's clear to me how to do a loader function and menu
handler for a link like 'teacher/%teacher/room/%/class_list', but I
don't see how to populate the level of the menus for '220' and '221' in
the 3 position.
In Drupal 5, I used to use the !$may_cache argument for these sorts of
things. I'm not arguing that this was efficient, but it did work. What
hooks would I need to use in addition to hook_menu to make this work in
Drupal 7?
Thanks,
Rob Thorne
Torenware Networks
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