How to make a primary link with user id variable embeded?

By mattyoung on 18 Oct 2008 at 01:44 UTC

I need to make a primary link menu item to go to the IMCE file browser. The url is:

/user/%user_id/imce

where %user_id is the numeric user id. How can I make a menu item so the actual user id is substituted?

Comments

Don't know

3CWebDev commented 18 October 2008 at 02:33

I don't know the answer but I had the same question/problem a few days ago. With my scenario I was able to point my regular primary link to a Views 2 path and then used a views argument to insert the user ID.

I'm curious to see if someone has an answer for your question though :)

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User id in the link

Dody commented 11 March 2009 at 14:44

just % and it will be. :)
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use to_arg() Functions

mulogic commented 18 October 2008 at 03:27

For the menu path "/user/%user_id/imce", Define a function with the name user_id_to_arg(). Return the value you want to replace the wild card with. (in your case the user id)
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What should I put in the Path field?

mattyoung commented 19 October 2008 at 01:44

>Define a function with the name user_id_to_arg()

Where do I define this function and how to use it?

I am talking about define a menu item in the primary link. What is the text I should put in the Path field?

Implement using a custom module

mulogic commented 20 October 2008 at 14:43

Hi,

Since the path of the menu is dynamic (i mean it varies from user to user), i guess it may not be possible to do it from GUI. You can write a custom module to implement this menu link.

Take a look at user_uid_optional_to_arg . i guess this is how user module implements the my account link. you need to have something like this or may be use the same function defined by user module. but in any case, i guess you need to write a small snippet.
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i use the

WorldFallz commented 20 October 2008 at 14:47

i use the http://drupal.org/project/me module for exactly this-- though it hasn't been ported to d6 yet, it seems as if someone might post a patch shortly.

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