Secondary link and third level

General discussion · Drupal 6.x

girf - June 11, 2008 - 11:32

Hi,

I have installed Drupal 6 and I want secondary link to show the second level of primary links. It works fine.

But the problem is when I want to see the third level (the secondary link's second level), I can't see it.

As the primary link I'm using (in page.tpl.php)

<?php print theme ( 'links', $primary_links, array('id' => 'mainnav') ); ?>

and the secondary links

<?php print theme ( 'links', $secondary_links, array('class' => 'nav') ); ?>

The settings in menus are:

Source for the primary links: primary links
Source for the secondary links: primary links

Does anyone know what I should do?

Thank you,

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Here's a start

drp33 - June 12, 2008 - 22:19

This is a good write-up on this topic: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/books/drupal_tricks/tertiary_menu

Basically, you can follow what the author says, except that the syntax in drupal 6.x is a little bit different. You have to tweak it just a bit to get it to work. Here is the syntax I used in my page.tpl.php:

<?php 
  $third_level = menu_navigation_links(variable_get('menu_secondary_links_source', 'secondary-links'), 2);
  print theme('links', $third_level, array('class' => 'tertiary-links'));
?>

I am just starting to work with this so I could totally be going about this the wrong way. It's a start, though.

Thank you, Local Menu (a

girf - June 13, 2008 - 06:41

Thank you,

Local Menu (a module) worked pretty well. But I'll look at your suggestion also.

Thanks!

drp33 - June 13, 2008 - 19:57

Local Menu is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for pointing that out!

Nice reply

johnpv - August 27, 2008 - 20:43

drp33 -

thanks for the informative reply, your code seems to work, haven't played with it much more than getting the tertiary links to display but it's a good start.

Displaying second level of primary menus

chiddicks - June 19, 2008 - 20:56

I just want to point out that by default in D6, the first level of the Secondary Links menu appears in the $secondary_links slot. This can be changed very easily in the menu settings tab (admin/build/menu/settings), selecting 'Primary links' as the 'Source for the secondary links: '. The terminology here is very confusing. I think that the Secondary Links menu should be called 'Supplemental links' or something similar to avoid confusion for themers.