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Printing an arbitrary menu just like primary_links and secondary_links

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You can find out your menu name by going to admin/build/menu and hovering over it-- the name is a text string, separating the words in the menu title with dashes, and all lower case.

In your template.php

<?php
function agarictheme_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
  $menu = menu_navigation_links("menu-name-here");
  $vars['special_menu_name'] = theme('links', $menu);
}
?>

In page.tpl.php (or page-front.tpl.php or other variation)

<?php
  print $special_menu_name;
?>

Note: this isn't working for us, when it should, and does when the menu code in the page template and printing directly is working.

This is what is working:

<?php
  $menu = menu_navigation_links("menu-name-here");
  print theme('links', $menu);
?>

Other new page variables are being passed successfully, so this is very weird.

Wait, do template variables need to be registered?

References

http://nicklewis.org/drupal-hackers-cookbook/menus/menu-navigation-links
http://api.drupal.org/api/function/theme_navigation_links/6
http://api.drupal.org/api/function/theme_menu_tree/6 (used to use this in Drupal 5, and the function is still there in Drupal 6, but it wants a menu numeric id)

Resolution

Comments

It does work

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on August 4, 2009 - 9:24pm.

In a Zen subtheme template.php this is working:

<?php
/**
* Override or insert variables into the page templates.
*
* @param $vars
*   An array of variables to pass to the theme template.
* @param $hook
*   The name of the template being rendered ("page" in this case.)
*/
function zenjali_preprocess_page(&$vars, $hook) {
  $menu = menu_navigation_links('menu-footer');
  $vars['footer_links'] = theme('links', $menu);
}
?>

With the simple code below in page.tpl.php:

<?php
print $footer_links;
?>

Maybe I just forgot to flush my theme cache above!

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