I have a Primary links menu, and child menu items don't appear in the rendered HTML.

Here's an example of what's being rendered:

<div id="navigation">
<div class="section clearfix">
<ul id="main-menu" class="links clearfix">
<li class="menu-577 first">
<a title="" href="/platform">The Platform</a>
</li>
<li class="menu-1308">
<a title="2010 Directions" href="/2010-directions">2010 Directions</a>
</li>
<li class="menu-1268">
<a title="How to help" href="/how-help">How to help</a>
</li>
<li class="menu-1267 last">
<a title="Why do this?" href="/why-do">Why do this?</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>

The Platform menu item has two child items that aren't being rendered.

Seems like child items ought to be rendered?

Comments

aren cambre’s picture

aren cambre commented

BTW, I submitted this because other themes render child items in the primary menu.

jaxtheking’s picture

jaxtheking commented

Same problem here... if I find out what it is, I'll let you know by tomorrow

johnalbin’s picture

johnalbin
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Primary language English
Location Taipei, Taiwan
commented
Category: bug » support
Status: Active » Fixed

Unfortunately, Drupal's default primary links inside the page.tpl.php only has the first level of the main menu. That is by design. (A design I'm not too crazy about, btw.)

Its the frustration I had about the inflexibility of the page.tpl's primary and secondary links display that drove me to write the menu_block module. http://drupal.org/project/menu_block

If you need the child menu items to appear on your page, I recommend going into your sub-theme's settings (go to admin/build/themes and click the "configure" link next to your sub-theme) and turning off the display of the primary and secondary links. And then adding and configuring the menu_block module to your site.

If you need more information about how to set this up, feel free to re-open this issue.

aren cambre’s picture

aren cambre commented
Status: Fixed » Active

Thank you!

Has anyone made a feature request against Drupal core to fix this?

jaxtheking’s picture

jaxtheking commented

There you go, you have already the answer there. Great little module by the way.

I was not aware of WHY this limitation existed, it IS pretty annoying. Anyhow, there are other more immediate ways around this. I just put them here so you can let me know what you think.

1. Simply print the 'Primary Links' block in your page.tpl.php file (see module_invoke)
2. Create a new region in your template (navigation) and place the 'Primary Links' block in it. Drupal WILL render the menu children.
3. Uncomment the STARTERKIT_preprocess_page(&$vars, $hook) function and add the following variable:

// Generate menu tree from source of primary links
$vars['primary_links_tree'] = menu_tree(variable_get('menu_primary_links_source', 'primary-links'));

Then, in your page.tpl.php write the following code and you're done:

if ($primary_links):
print $primary_links_tree;
endif;

Hope that helps. I haven't got time to go more in details, but if you have any other question, go ahead! The Zen theme is awesome btw

akalata’s picture

akalata commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

live4speed’s picture

live4speed commented

Thank you SO MUCH for the menu_block module. I was pulling my hair out for 3 months trying to overcome a problem that menu_block solved in 5 minutes. See my post for specifics http://drupal.org/node/937114