By big_smile on

In Drupal 7, you can use the following code in your page.tpl.php file to display the Main and secondary menus.

 <?php print theme('links__system_main_menu', array('links' => $main_menu, 'attributes' => array('id' => 'main-menu', 'class' => array('links', 'inline', 'clearfix')), 'heading' => t('Main menu'))); ?>
        <?php print theme('links__system_secondary_menu', array('links' => $secondary_menu, 'attributes' => array('id' => 'secondary-menu', 'class' => array('links', 'inline', 'clearfix')), 'heading' => t('Secondary menu'))); ?>

The code is really handy, because you can assign IDs and Classes to the menus.

However, I want my secondary menu to be a child of the main menu.
For example:

<ul id="custom-id">
<li> Main Menu Link 1</li>
<li> Main Menu Link 2</li>
<li> Main Menu Link 3</li>
<li> Main Menu Link 4
     <ul id="custom-id"> 
     </li> Secondary Link 1</li>
     </li> Secondary Link 2</li>
     </li> Secondary Link 3</li>
     </ul>
</li>
</ul>

How can I do this?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

Comments

Scott J’s picture

Scott J commented

Go to admin/structure/menu/settings and set 'Source for the Secondary links' to 'Main menu'.

Prine’s picture

Prine commented

This worked for me! Thank you.

Make sure $secondary_links is available in page.tpl for child items of main menu to appear.

Bill Pair’s picture

Bill Pair commented

I've set the source for the links of both the Main and Secondary Links to my custom menu and even though I can show the first level with 


 <?php print theme('links__system_main_menu', 
					array('links' => $main_menu, 
						'attributes' => array('id' => 'main-menu', 
																	'class' => array('links', 'inline', 'clearfix')
																	))); ?>

I can't show the children nested within their parents. Any solutions? The original poster didn't mention if he solved his problem but I can't solve mine this way...

Scott J’s picture

Scott J commented

There's a module for that!
Menu block module.

Scott J’s picture

Scott J commented

There are very detailed instructions at http://deltup.org/page.php?4/bartik to create drop-down menus in Bartik theme, which you should be able to adapt to any theme.

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GNA27 commented

Please, could someone help me enable secondary menu or child menu items from the main menu?

I have made the main menu the source for both primary and secondary links, but I still see no secondary drop-down links under the main menu. I have checked all of my settings for the secondary page, the menus, and my content types.

I found the instructions from the Bartik theme, but these are far too complicated for something as simple as wanting to see a drop-down main menu. I have minimal PHP coding ability or experience, and I can't believe it would be this difficult to get one of the most basic elements of web page design from this CMS. I tried multiple themes, but none of them show child menu items.

I tried installing Superfish, which I had installed successfully for another site in Drupal 6, but after Drupal 7 installed the 7 version from the Zip file, it never appeared in the modules list. It simply doesn't exist.

Can anyone clarify or demystify this? What do I have to do to get child menu items to show up when hovering over the parent main menu items?

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vm commented

is your theme printing the @secondary menus variable in your theme?
have you tested a core theme?

note, secondary menus are not drop down menus.

video for seondary menus = http://www.lullabot.com/node/444/play

superfish for Drupal 7.x works perfectly fine here.