[development] Two tiered menus in D7 when the top level is user specific

[Ken Rickard]

This looks like another case of Menu Block with an alter hook to prepend the parent items per user. 



On Mar 21, 2011, at 8:55 PM, Rob Thorne <rob at torenware.com> wrote:

> 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
>