Home » Download » Modules

Administration menu

· · · · ·
sun - January 12, 2007 - 02:40

Administration menu module provides a theme-independent administration interface (aka. navigation, back-end) for Drupal. It's a helper for novice Drupal users coming from other CMS, a real time-saver for Drupal site administrators, and definitely a must for Drupal developers and site builders (keyword: Devel integration).

The module renders all administrative menu items below 'administer' in a clean, attractive and purely CSS-based menu at the top of your website. It contains not only regular menu items - local tasks are also included, giving you extremely fast access to any administrative resource and function your Drupal installation provides.

Drupal exposed! Administering, developing, and working with Drupal has never been that fast, easy and concise.

Showcase and Quality Assurance

Behaviour

  • Administration menu module is re-building the whole menu tree below /admin including all invisible local tasks into a new menu. Thus, administrators need less time to access pages which are normally visible after multiple clicks only.
  • The original menu tree below 'administer' is completely copied from the regular 'Navigation' menu, whereby it is unimportant in which menu these items are contained. You can move the whole "Administer" menu tree to a separate menu. -- D5 only yet: You can edit, move and re-organize existing administration menu items or create new ones just as usual.
  • You have immediate access to 'Add <content type>' pages.
  • Administration menu provides a logout link and allows other modules to add or alter the menu using hook_admin_menu(). Integration with Devel module is available out of the box.
  • Administration menu is cached.

Security

  • Administration menu is only displayed if a user has the permissions 'access administration menu' and 'access administration pages'.
  • The "Administer" menu item must be enabled, but may reside in another menu than "Navigation".

Theme integration

  • Administration menu is absolute positioned at the top of the window, but can also be positioned fixed.
  • The menu is output via hook_footer() in $closure. If the administration menu is not displayed, please consult the README.txt first.
  • The administration menu icon is themeable.

Compatibility

  • Administration menu should work in any browser, including Firefox, Internet Explorer 6 + 7, Opera, and Safari 3.
    If you've found a platform, browser or CSS-specific bug, please search the queue for existing reports or post a new issue to the queue.

Outlook / Roadmap

Related modules

  • This module is intended for administrative users - not for regular or anonymous site users. If you are seeking
    • a dropdown menu as a replacement for a complete menu, f.e. Navigation or a user menu, try SimpleMenu or Nice Menus (both based on jQuery).
    • a module providing folding DHTML menus instead of a dropdown menu, try DHTML Menu (using JavaScript).
    • a sidebar-like tree navigation, try Adminmenu DHTML.
    • a way to apply JavaScript and CSS to selected page elements, try Dynamic Rendering.

Dependencies

  • None.

Installation

Credits

Current maintainers:

This project has been sponsored by:

Project links

for 6.x-3.x: Read documentation · Read complete log of changes
for 5.x-3.x: Read documentation · Read complete log of changes
for 6.x-1.x: Read documentation · Read complete log of changes
for 5.x-2.x: Read documentation · Read complete log of changes

#D7CX: I pledge that this module will have a full Drupal 7 release on the day that Drupal 7 is released.

Releases

Official releasesDateSizeLinksStatus
6.x-3.0-alpha12009-Jun-1148.23 KBDownload · Release notesSupported for 6.xThis release is supported but is not currently the recommended release for 6.x.
6.x-1.52009-Jul-0244.22 KBDownload · Release notesRecommended for 6.xThis is currently the recommended release for 6.x.
5.x-3.0-alpha12009-Jun-1136.94 KBDownload · Release notesSupported for 5.xThis release is supported but is not currently the recommended release for 5.x.
5.x-2.82009-Jan-2431.09 KBDownload · Release notesRecommended for 5.xThis is currently the recommended release for 5.x.
4.7.x-1.42007-Sep-0611.17 KBDownload · Release notesRecommended for 4.7.xThis is currently the recommended release for 4.7.x.
Development snapshotsDateSizeLinksStatus
7.x-3.x-dev2009-Jul-0344.79 KBDownload · Release notesDevelopment snapshotDevelopment snapshots are automatically regenerated and their contents can frequently change, so they are not recommended for production use.
6.x-3.x-dev2009-Jul-0348.31 KBDownload · Release notesDevelopment snapshotDevelopment snapshots are automatically regenerated and their contents can frequently change, so they are not recommended for production use.
6.x-1.x-dev2009-Jul-0344.23 KBDownload · Release notesDevelopment snapshotDevelopment snapshots are automatically regenerated and their contents can frequently change, so they are not recommended for production use.
5.x-3.x-dev2009-Jun-2237.02 KBDownload · Release notesDevelopment snapshotDevelopment snapshots are automatically regenerated and their contents can frequently change, so they are not recommended for production use.


 
 

Drupal is a registered trademark of Dries Buytaert.