Special menu items - Drupal module

04/05/2009

Special menu items is a Drupal module that provides placeholder and separator menu items.

 

A placeholder is a menu item which is not a link. It is useful with dynamic drop down menus where we want to have a parent menu item which is not linking to a page but  just acting as a parent grouping some menu items below it.

 

A separator menu item is something like "-------" which is not linking anywhere but merely a mean to structure menus and "separate" menu items visually.

This is how the module works:

  • User can create a new menu item and place either "nolink" or "separator" to the URL field, without quotes.
  • When the menu is rendered the "nolink" item will be rendered similar to a normal menu link item but there will be no link but the title only.
  • When the menu is rendered the "separator" item will be rendered to an item which is no link but a title like "-------".


This module depends on Menu module. It is recommended to use SimpleMenu module or another dynamic menu module or you will not be able to acess children of nolink menu items.

You can find the module at http://drupal.org/project/special_menu_items

Comments

Warrning Message

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 7. May 2009 - 23:51.

Tried this along with Simple Menu 6.x-1.2. Also have menu 6.11 installed on WAMP for testing. (i.e. no live site)

Received a page of the following warnings...

"warning: Missing argument 2 for variable_get(), called in C:\wamp\www\real_estate\sites\all\modules\special_menu_items\special_menu_items.module on line 66 and defined in C:\wamp\www\real_estate\includes\bootstrap.inc on line 500."

If Special Menu Items is removed and Simple Menu is active then the warnings go away.

However, did notice that when one of the selected menu items was marked 'nolink' it did become a non link.

As a question is it possible to also have the items below the non link be non expanded and when the non link is check it will expand? It would be my guess that no this is not possible.....

Also tried only using SMI without SM and it displayed the same warnings.

Using Drupal 6.11 with Ubercart 2.0-RC2.

You can send an email to my provided address if you like. Or post to Drupal under your module. But did not see any submit issues button......

Thanks,

Jim

Re:Warning

Submitted by Tamir Zoubi (not verified) on 10. May 2009 - 10:10.

Hi,
yes it seems that there was a missing 2nd variable in variable_get. Fix is now applied and online on Drupal site.
For now this module doesn't support expanding nolink items, but you can add it as feature request and we will considered it if enough people are interested. I would recommend you to use it with Simple Menu or Nice Menu modules.

problems using this module

Submitted by Frank (not verified) on 11. May 2009 - 14:16.

I found these problems:

- Once installed, when I go to edit a menu item, the element path is always empty.

- When i select nolink, the links appear on breadcrumb but goes to a web page called "nolink". I don't know if this should work like this. I need the menu item name without link.

- And finally... i desactivated the module and all the options from my menu were deleted :-(

Thanks... i really like this module and i'll be wainting for a new release.

Thanks very much.

Frank

Hi Frank

Submitted by Tamir Zoubi (not verified) on 11. May 2009 - 15:04.

Hi Frank,
- Once installed, when I go to edit a menu item, the element path is always empty.
Yes, it seems that this is a bug. We will post fix soon.
*UPDATE fix is now posted at Drupal site as 6.x-1.2 release.

-When i select nolink, the links appear on breadcrumb but goes to a web page called "nolink". I don't know if this should work like this. I need the menu item name without link.
Because Drupal 6 has built in validation for menu item path we had to put "dummy" pages for nolink and separator items.
When item is rendered it is not linkable, only in edit menu you can see its path as nolink.

-And finally... i deactivated the module and all the options from my menu were deleted
Disabling the module should just remove nolink and separator items. If you enable it again you should get them back. I couldn't reproduce same error so if you can give me more information it would be very helpful.

new version tested

Submitted by Frank (not verified) on 11. May 2009 - 23:27.

Hi Tamir,

thanks for the update. I have tested it and still have this problem:

- Menú is ok. The menu item with nolink appears without href link. But the problem comes with the breadcrumb. The item there still have the link to the "nolink" page.

Frank

Feature request

Submitted by Tamir Zoubi (not verified) on 12. May 2009 - 7:40.

Hi Frank,
Scope of this module is to only display nolink and separator items on a menu. However you can add this as a feature request here and if we will consider it for next release.

Thanks, I did it :-p Frank

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 12. May 2009 - 8:24.

Thanks, I did it :-p

Frank

Very happy to have found this

Submitted by James Shimota (not verified) on 29. January 2010 - 22:10.

Thank you for your work. I tried a number of methods and lots of googling and clearly this is a big issue for folks.

I implmented your module, and it turned out nicely. I had been running DHTML_Menu_Module and my first try gave me the nolinks correctly, but the expanded menu didn't show the child. I disabled the DHTML module completely and your menu functioned as I wanted.
I also use Dynamic Persistent Menu Module to create a horizontal footer. that is working find with this. For my needs, I did away with DHTML menu, your feature was more important! Thank you again.

Hi James Thank you for your

Submitted by Karim Djelid on 30. January 2010 - 11:04.

Hi James

Thank you for your feedback.
We're always happy to hear that our Drupal Modules helped others :)