Override the title of a Menu Item (Local task)

By lee20 on 30 Jan 2008 at 04:39 UTC

I'd like to change the title of a menu item that is defined in a core module (specifically in taxonomy.module). I want to change the "Add term" local task to "Add category". Is there a (right) way to do this without changing it directly in the module? I think I could probably use i18n to solve this issue, but I don't believe this is how i18n is meant to be used, plus that is overkill for changing a single title.

I have tried creating a custom menu item through the menu administration; this does actually change the name but causes two tabs to appear (both with the right title). Disabling the item has no affect, both tabs still appear.

I have also tried redefining the menu item in a custom module (with the proper title), but it this gets overwritten by the menu item defined in the taxonomy module.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Comments

theme_menu_item_link?

Jody Lynn

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commented 30 January 2008 at 16:02

I need to do a similar thing. I think I'm going to try implementing a theme_menu_item_link in template.php and having it doing something like if ($item['title'] == 'old-title') {$item['title'] = 'new-title'; }

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Yes, that worked

Jody Lynn

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commented 30 January 2008 at 16:07

In my case the local task I wanted to override was called 'Orders' and I changed both its title and description.

function phptemplate_menu_item_link($item, $link_item) {
  if ($item['title'] == 'Orders' && $item['description'] == t('View your order history.')) {
    $item['title'] = 'Credits';
    $item['description'] = t('Buy credits and view your order history.');	
  }
  return l($item['title'], $link_item['path'], !empty($item['description']) ? array('title' => $item['description']) : array(), isset($item['query']) ? $item['query'] : NULL);
}

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