Menu tabs - how to set home page and get 'active' class back?

I had the same problem today. I got round it as follows:

- in Site Information set your default homepage e.g. node/1 using whatever the node number is for the page you want to be the homepage

- ensure none of your pages is promoted to front page

- set your menu "home" link to the address of your homepage e.g. node/1

When I did this the homepage link had the active class, and navigating to www.mydomain.com with no filename specified in the url takes me to the homepage. I assume it is promoting the page to frontpage that causes the active class to not be added but I haven't looked at the code so this is just a guess.

HTH

Chadj, thanks for the hack.
However I can't get it working because the template.php (I think you meant 'template.php', not 'templates.php') which came with my theme doesn't contain a phptemplate_links function. I'm only just beginning to understand theme overrides, so if you can post the complete function, that would be a great help.
Marc

If you are using a static front page ( node/23 ) you have two urls for the same content.
I override the theme-functions:

For homepage-link in primary-links I use this function in template.php:

/**
* Implementation of theme_menu_links().
*
* Add active class to current primary-menu item links.
*/
function phptemplate_menu_links($links, $attributes = array()) {

  if (!count($links)) {
    return '';
  }
  $level_tmp = explode('-', key($links));
  $level = $level_tmp[0];
  $output = "<ul class=\"links-$level ".$attributes['class']. "\">\n";
  foreach ($links as $index => $link) {
    $output .= '<li';
    if (stristr($index, 'active')) {
      $output .= ' class="active"';
    }// frontpage AND current-link in menu is <front>
    elseif((drupal_is_front_page()) && ($link['href']=='<front>')){
      $link['attributes']['class'] = 'active';//add class active to <li
      $output .= ' class="active"';//add class active to <a
    }
    $output .= ">". l($link['title'], $link['href'], $link['attributes'], $link['query'], $link['fragment']) ."</li>\n";
  }
  $output .= '</ul>';

  return $output;
}

In page.tpl.php for primary- and secondary-links e.g. in zen-theme :

<?php print theme('menu_links', $primary_links); ?>
<?php print theme('menu_links', $secondary_links); ?>

- or in garland and barlow.:

<?php print theme('menu_links', $primary_links, array('class' => 'links primary_menu')) ?>
<?php print theme('menu_links', $secondary_links, array('class' => 'links secondary_menu')) ?>

To make a homepage-link active in other menus I use this function in template.php (http://drupal.org/node/87902):

/**
* Add frontpage 'active' state handling to menu links
* and section 'active' state handling when child is active
* and menu-[title] as css id
*
* modified from code originally posted at
* rogerlopez.net/handbook/primary_menu_tweaks
*
*/
function phptemplate_menu_item_link($item, $link_item) {
  static $menu;
  if (!isset($menu)) {
    $menu = menu_get_menu();
  }
  $mid = $menu['path index'][$link_item['path']];
  $front = variable_get('site_frontpage','node');
  $attribs = isset($item['description']) ? array('title' => $item['description']) : array();
  $attribs['id'] = 'menu-'. str_replace(' ', '-', strtolower($item['title']));
  if((($link_item['path']=='<front>') && ($front==$_GET['q'])) ||
    (menu_in_active_trail($mid))){
  $attribs['class'] = 'active';
  }
  return l($item['title'], $link_item['path'], $attribs);
}

Works for <front> in other menus. Works in garland, barlow, nonzero and zen (in some themes you must change the css - I can poste this too, if desired).

Possible workaround:

Yes, this is working. In my opinion it has one major drawback in SEO: duplicate URL's for the same content. www.yourdomain.com/ will return the same content as 'www.yourdomain.com/node /#' where node /# matches your homepage. You really want your homepage to be known by searchengines only by the full domainname without trailing someting.

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Its all so confusing.