Using tokens in a menu link

I'm trying to do exactly the same thing. Would love to see a solution for this!

I'm trying to do the same thing and haven't figured it out yet, did either of you?

Similar solution implemented by menu_token.module.

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Has anybody figured this out for 6.x?

I needed to do this on a site I'm building too. So I created a simple redirect.php page.

For example I made a link in the nav menu that would take the user directly to their user/edit page. I pointed the menu item to my redirect.php and it sent them to an evaluated redirected url. It's pretty fast and seamless too. Hope this helps until some makes this for Drupal 6.

I'm looking for the same thing in D6. I would love to show a menu title as a token. In my case i want to show the user name.

The Real Name module can provide that link in the Nav menu title.

Nancy Dru

Try the me aliases module.


function phptemplate_menu_item_link($link)
{
if (empty($link['localized_options'])) {
$link['localized_options'] = array();
}
//Make all external Links "_blank"
if ( isset($link['href']) && substr($link['href'], 0, 4) == 'http' )
{
$link['localized_options']['attributes']['target'] = '_blank';
}
//Use Tokens
if ( module_exists('token') )
{
$link['href'] = token_replace( $link['href'],'global' );
$link['title'] = token_replace( $link['title'],'global' );
}
return l($link['title'], $link['href'], $link['localized_options']);
}

Erik

I'm also interested in this (for Drupal 6), but not just for tokens. I'm just trying to pass an argument into a URL based on a view page path that uses an argument. For example, a view path of /documents/% where % is the user's userID. I can then browse to a URL of www.mysite.com/documents/userID to see the view of that user's documents. Now I want that view in a menu which is where I run into the challenge since the path is different per URL. The menu will only appear on the page of the user that 'owns' that view, so I can get the argument to pass to the menu without a hitch. But how do I pass it to the menu? My problem is that Drupal's menuing system does not seem to accept /documents/% as a path and instead kicks back an invalid path error when I try to add that as a menu item in Admin -> Site Building -> Menus.

The Me module won't work in this case since it deals with the logged in user, and I need this to work for any userID that is passed as an argument in the URL. I looked at Path Redirect but this also didn't seem like the right fit. Menu token would work great by pulling a userID token, but it's D5 only so it's not an option for me. That brought me to this page as well as this comment: http://drupal.org/node/201848#comment-761771

Unfortunately, menu_item_link has been removed in D6 so that isn't an option either.

Does anyone happen to have a suggestion in this case? What's the preferred approach to passing a dynamic argument to a Drupal menu in D6?

FWIW, I have full root access to my server with no limitations whatsoever in terms of installing modules, modifying themes, changing configs, etc.

anyone figured out a way?

+1 on this.

This should be straighforward! If I can make a view with an argument in the URL, I should be able to make a menu item to point to that view.

Suggestions appreciated...

I have the following in a module for all my custom functions (D6 BTW)

Then the menu I put something like :blog/user . This changes to blog/user/33 for user 33.

The : at the beginning is to fool the menu it to believing it is an external link so it doesn't check it at save time. At run time the translation strips that and adds the current user id. Of course you can expand the processing to change an end token and replace that but since I just want the user id I don't bother.

Of course this only works for D6 menu. href links in the code have to be constructed with php.