Menu items weight handle/dragging -50 patch

Nice explanation and simple solution. This needs some good testing. It would be great if it resolves the issues.

I have been experiencing this same issue and wanted to help test this patch. However the patch does not seem to be working for me.

root@web3:/var/www/sites/all/modules/taxonomy_menu# patch -p0 < menuweight.patch 
patching file taxonomy_menu.module                                               
Hunk #1 FAILED at 539.                                                           
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file taxonomy_menu.module.rej        
root@web3:/var/www/sites/all/modules/taxonomy_menu# cat taxonomy_menu.module.rej 
*************** function _taxonomy_menu_save($item) {                            
*** 539,545 ****
    $link['link_title'] = $item['name'];
    $link['menu_name'] = $item['menu_name'];
    $link['plid'] = $plid;
-   $link['weight'] = $item['weight'];
    $link['module'] = 'taxonomy_menu';
    $link['expanded'] = variable_get('taxonomy_menu_expanded_'. $item['vid'], TRUE);
    $link['link_path'] = $path;
--- 539,545 ----
    $link['link_title'] = $item['name'];
    $link['menu_name'] = $item['menu_name'];
    $link['plid'] = $plid;
+   $link['weight'] = $item['weight']-50;
    $link['module'] = 'taxonomy_menu';
    $link['expanded'] = variable_get('taxonomy_menu_expanded_'. $item['vid'], TRUE);
    $link['link_path'] = $path;

I have rolled back to the 6.x-2.9 version for now. I will try to manually make the cahnges included in your patch file to taxonomy_menu.module and see how that goes.

Just wanted to let you know about the patch file. As always, thanks for your help, Druapl community.

Rerolled Patch. Behavior is definitely less buggy than before.

Thank you so much for doing this. The patch applied without any errors. I am currently testing it.

Thanks Nick and Nat.

Please report back here when you're done with testing.

Duplicate post.

The patch applied just fine. So far, this appears to have resolved the issues I was experiencing on two different sites, using the 6.x-2.9 version of this module. Thank you again for your help.

Marking as RTBC, I'll commit this later.

Committed to 6.x-2.x-dev. Thanks.

It took me awhile to find this post. This issue through me for a loop for a while. When do you think you'll release a new stable version with this patch?

I know this one is closed, but.. I am following some issues similar to #992368: Menu order changes when node is tagged with a taxonomy term. , can someone point to where or why the weight is always taken from the taxonomy items? What happens if you change an order of an item manually, it will be overwritten, is that something wanted?

I know that this is closed, but I wanted to share a little script that you can save as "updatemenu.php" in your root web folder and either run manually or setup a cron job to call it at a specified interval. In my case, it automatically sets the weights to 0 every 20 minutes, thus reverting to an Alpha sort. It's a simple and effective workaround.

Here's the CRON job:
/usr/bin/wget -O - -q "http://www.mysite.com/updatemenu.php" > /dev/null 2>&1

Here's the script:

$hostname="localhost"; 
$username="username"; 
$password="password"; 
$database="database"; 

// Connect to the database 
mysql_connect($hostname, $username, $password) OR DIE("Unable to connect"); 
mysql_select_db("$database") or die("Unable to select database"); 

$query="UPDATE menu_links SET weight = '0' WHERE module = 'taxonomy_menu'"; 
//  $query="SELECT * FROM menu_links";
$checkresult = mysql_query($query); 
if ($checkresult) echo 'update query succeeded'; 
else echo 'update query failed'; 

mysql_close();