I did my first Drupal install a couple of months ago (5.7). All went well until I upgraded to 6.4 (I'm still wondering what I did wrong -- should I have upgraded to 5.10 first?).
My navigation menu for an anonymous user now shows only Contact. However, the structure I had before does seem to be present in {menu_links}, as far as I understand it (i.e. I can see familiar menu item names in that mysql table).
What I would really like is to understand the significance of each of the fields in these 2 tables.
I'm also trying to think of a reason why the conversion had a problem, whereas presumably it works for most people. Perhaps one unusual aspect is that, although my site is fairly small, I migrated content from a static site without adding it to Drupal. In other words there are a number of directories containing .htm files. I got these to display, when visitors go straight to them, by adding a small .htaccess file in each. I added, well before the upgrade, links in the navigation menu to these locations, e.g. path foo/bar.htm.
In the nav menu I also had links to new content within Drupal. But after the upgrade both the legacy and the new content links are all no longer visible.
I'm not expecting an answer to my problem, I'm just explaining, in case someone's curious, why I want to dig into the database tables at a detailed level and why I would much appreciate information.
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A partial answer, but the problem is not solved...
http://drupal.org/node/102338 and its successors have some information, but not the level of detail I'm looking for.
I still believe that there is a problem with having a site that's part Drupal, part static non-Drupal pages (pointed at by the navigation menu). This worked fine on 5.7. I needed to create it that way, otherwise legacy pages would no longer be linked to by external sites and search engines would reduce ranking of pages that have existed for years before Drupal.
There must be other sites, mixed, like this? Is this a known issue, and if not, how do I raise it?
Ahhhh looks like you've been
Ahhhh looks like you've been grappling with all of this for a wee while! To get to grips with the new menu system I bought the new version of Pro Drupal Development (see http://www.drupalbook.com/ or http://drupal.org/books). With book in hand I could now code a module which implemented menu wildcards, but I'd struggle to fix existing bugs in the menu system ...
gpk
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gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk