Menu on front page not expanded [#213664]

What are the steps required to reproduce the bug?

1) Create a few menu items in the primary links menu. One of the items is at the highest level (with no parent) and the other are children of the first:

a
--b
--c

2) Set the path of 'a' to be .
3) activate the primary links block (tested in garland with the links block on the right sidebar)

What behavior were you expecting?

On the front page I expect the menu item 'a' to be expanded, showing 'b' and 'c'.

What happened instead?

The menu does not expand.

I can't tell if this is a bug or feature and I can't see any other issue about this. Sorry if I've missed something obvious!

Comment	File	Size	Author
#11	front_page.patch	1.51 KB	theborg
#11
#10	front_path.patch	1.34 KB	chx
#10
#9	menu_not_expanded.patch	1.35 KB	theborg
#9

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Comments

Comment #1

theborg CreditAttribution: theborg commented 24 January 2008 at 15:20

Status:

Active

» Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Can you say which is the path to a?

Comment #2

sym CreditAttribution: sym commented 24 January 2008 at 17:28

Status:

Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

» Active

Ah, it got filtered out:

2) Set the path of 'a' to be .

should be

2) Set the path of 'a' to be <front>.

So 'a' links to the front page, but after its been clicked (and you are viewing the front page) you cannot see the expanded menu.

Setting back to active, because I've given the more info.

Comment #3

theborg CreditAttribution: theborg commented 25 January 2008 at 08:00

I am not able to reproduce it on FF 2.0, linux, neither rc2 or dev.

Comment #4

dvessel CreditAttribution: dvessel commented 25 January 2008 at 19:25

sym, can you set the menu item to be expanded all the time (by checking off "expanded" for the parent item.)? I can't even get that to work even though I set "source for secondary links" to primary in "admin/build/menu/settings".

Comment #5

sym CreditAttribution: sym commented 25 January 2008 at 19:35

If I set the menu item 'a' to be expanded then it is expanded on all pages as expected.

I have tried changing the secondary links settings too, with no affect.

theborg: have you set up the menu as I did? Did your menu item expand on the home page?

Comment #6

webernet CreditAttribution: webernet commented 25 January 2008 at 20:05

Version:

6.0-rc2

» 6.x-dev

Confirmed.

With the following menu structure, the top level link in the primary links menu block doesn't expand on the front page.

<front>
- node/1
- node/2

Comment #7

dvessel CreditAttribution: dvessel commented 25 January 2008 at 20:18

Okay, confirmed as well.

Another related issue is that if the path set for the parent item is not understood by the menu system, it will never expand. I was trying with an external link.

Comment #8

theborg CreditAttribution: theborg commented 26 January 2008 at 09:34

Confirmed for me, I haven't set the correct test menu before.

What I have found is that the function that builds the menu_tree_page_data has this sql:

          $parents = db_fetch_array(db_query("SELECT p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6, p7, p8 FROM {menu_links} WHERE menu_name = '%s' AND link_path = '%s'", $menu_name, $item['href']));

And in the case of front this is returning false because href is translated to 'node', so the parents array is empty.