By flamingvan on

If I have the mid of a menu item, how can I determine what level the menu item lives at in the menu hierarchy? Or can I simply determing if the menu item has a parent or is a top level item?

Thanks!

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flamingvan commented

Can't be. There must be an easy way.

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flamingvan commented

$parent = menu_get_item($vars['mid']);
$vars['parent'] = $parent['pid'];

$hasParent = menu_get_menu();
$hasParent = $hasParent['items'][$parent]['pid'] == 0 ? 0 : 1;

I hope the helps somebody!

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akahn commented

Hey flamingvan, can you provide a little explanation of what your code is doing? When I put this in a node and print $parent and $hasParent, I get an error: warning: Illegal offset type in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/drupal/includes/common.inc(1352) : eval()'d code on line 9.. I'm trying to print in each node a link to its parent node, if it has one. Thanks for any help.

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nimzie commented

I'm trying to use this code as well and am unable to get it to work whether I print the vars out or not.

I'd like to use this with D 5.x and output the top level parent menu item.

Thanks for any help.

Cheers,

Adam

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grasmash commented

Simplest way:

$active_trail = menu_get_active_trail();
end($active_trail);
$parent = prev($active_trail);

This will work in your template.php file.

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bbinkovitz commented

This only works if you're looking for the parent item of a menu link that exists in the current page active trail, no? If I have a mlid that I want to look up the parent for, this won't work. Is that correct?

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c_note commented

Extremely useful snippet of code, thanks