Menu tabs on node types

By glueckskind on 4 Mar 2008 at 14:33 UTC

Hi,
I have 2 node types: typea and typeb. I want to show menu tabs for typea, but not for typeb.

function mymodule_menu() {
$items = array();
 
	
	$items['node/%node/tab1']        = array(
	   	'title'               => 'tab1',	
          	'page callback'       => 'theme_function_tab1',
       		'page arguments'      => array(1),
          	'type'                => MENU_LOCAL_TASK,
       		);

	$items['node/%node/tab2']        = array(
	   	'title'               => 'tab2',	
          	'page callback'       => 'theme_function_tab2',
       		'page arguments'      => array(1),
          	'type'                => MENU_LOCAL_TASK,
       		);
       			    	
return $items;
}

The problem is, that the tabs are shown on every node. How can I cell Drupal not to show the tabs on every node without manipulation the node.tpl.php?

Thanks

Comments

You can base the $items on

ziobudda commented 5 March 2008 at 01:51

You can base the $items on the URL ($_GET['q'] and arg()). Say that you want to display tab1 only when the node is a multiply of 2 and your url si http://www.mydomain.com/node/1/

function mymodule_menu() {
$items = array();

   if (arg(1) % 2) {
    $items['node/%node/tab1']        = array(
           'title'               => 'tab1',   
              'page callback'       => 'theme_function_tab1',
               'page arguments'      => array(1),
              'type'                => MENU_LOCAL_TASK,
               );
  } else {
     $items['node/%node/tab2']        = array(
           'title'               => 'tab2',   
              'page callback'       => 'theme_function_tab2',
               'page arguments'      => array(1),
              'type'                => MENU_LOCAL_TASK,
               );
    }
 return $items;
}

Where:
arg(0) = node
arg(1) = 1

Obviously you lost the possibility to cache the $items.

PS: this code is not tested but it's a start point.

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Try this: <?php function

Nick Lewis commented 5 March 2008 at 21:17

Try this:

function mymodule_menu() {
  $items = array();
  // get the active node
  $node = menu_get_object();
  if ($node->type == 'typea') {
  // the local tasks here....  
  }                   
  return $items;
}

Be sure to rebuild the menu to test.
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