By Imaaxa-Cory on

I have a page that is created by views using contextual filters to filter down the page results.

The contextual filter is the nid of a content type.

I created a view to create a menu on the page that just links back to the page with the context argument added to the end. Example: resource/44

Client added the requirement later for drop-down menus. So I am using Nice Menus for this.

To try to make it easy for the client to update the drop-down menu, the menu cache will be flushed upon the creation of the content type mentioned above.

Here is the code I am using:

/**
 * Implementation of hook_menu()
 */
function mymodule_menu(){
  // get the content type data from the DB
  $result = cm_get_category_nodes();

  // loop through the $result
  // and create a menu item with the data
  foreach ($result as $key => $value) {
    $items['resource/' . $key] = array(
      'title' => $value,
      'description' => 'Resources',
      'page callback' => 'views_page',
      'page arguments' => array('resources', 'page_1',),
      'access_callback' => 'views_access',
      'access arguments' => array('administer filters'),
      'weight' => 0,
      'menu_name' => 'main-menu',
      'tab_root' => 'resource',
    );
  }
		
  return $items;
}

The problem is now the views page is not filtering with the nid from the end of the url. Can anyone see what I am missing?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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Imaaxa-Cory commented

I just noticed that if I add the content type id again as another argument, the view filters on the argument.

Example: resource/44 <-does not work. resource/44/44 <-does work.

Is there something I am not adding to the menu $items array causing views to not filter on the first argument instance?

Imaaxa-Cory’s picture

Imaaxa-Cory commented

During testing, I disabled the module, flushed the caches. The links that the module created remained in the database, and views is now filtering the contextual argument properly.

I made a copy of the menu-cache with it working correctly. Enabled the module again, flushed the caches, tested that views once again is not filtering the contextual arguments. Made a copy of the menu-cache again.

I compared the two cache entries and only found some extra closing curly brackets }.

Does anyone know if there is a way to add the menu links to the menu_links table without using hook_menu()?

I am also open to other ideas.

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Imaaxa-Cory commented

Made change to above function:

Changed the 'page callback' => 'views_page'; to 'page callback' => 'mymodule_page',

/**
* Implementation of hook_menu()
*/
function mymodule_menu(){
  // get the content type data from the DB
  $result = cm_get_category_nodes();

  // loop through the $result
  // and create a menu item with the data
  foreach ($result as $key => $value) {
    $items['resource/' . $key] = array(
      'title' => $value,
      'description' => 'Resources',
      'page callback' => 'mymodule_page',
      'page arguments' => array('resources', 'page_1',),
      'access_callback' => 'views_access',
      'access arguments' => array('administer filters'),
      'weight' => 0,
      'menu_name' => 'main-menu',
      'tab_root' => 'resource',
    );
  }

  return $items;
}

Then copied the views_page function from views.module, renamed it with mymodule name and added some php:

function mymodule_page($name, $display_id) {
  // test to see if this is the right views page processor
  if($name == 'resources'){
    $args = func_get_args();
		
    // Remove $name and $display_id from the arguments.
    array_shift($args);
    array_shift($args);
			
    // if the $args are empty add the missing argument
    if(!$args){
      $marg = explode('/', current_path());
      array_push($args, $marg[1]);
    }

      // Load the view and render it.
      if ($view = views_get_view($name)) {
        return $view->execute_display($display_id, $args);
      }

      // Fallback; if we get here no view was found or handler was not valid.
      return MENU_NOT_FOUND;
  }
		
  //  send to views if sent here by mistake
  views_page($name, $display_id);
}