overlay on custom paths with hook_admin_paths_alter() not working

It should work. Did you clear Drupal cache?

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Code similar to the above does work fine for me. Maybe you can post a larger section of your code?

Note that it is only expected to open in the overlay if you click on a link to it in the site or visit it by URL with something like http://example.com/#overlay=custom. If you go to http://example.com/custom directly, it won't open in the overlay (by design, although I think that is problematic in some ways). It sounds like that is probably not your issue, but thought I'd mention it in case it is.

In sites/all/modules/mymodule, if I put mymodule.info with:

name = My Module
core = 7.x
files[] = mymodule.module

and mymodule.module with

/**
 * Implements hook_menu().
 */
function mymodule_menu() {
  $items['custom'] = array(
    'title' => 'Custom',
    'page callback' => 'mymodule_custom_page',
    'access callback' => TRUE,
  );

  return $items;
}

function mymodule_custom_page() {
  return t('This is a test.');
}

/**
 * Implements hook_admin_paths().
 */
function mymodule_admin_paths() {
  $paths['custom'] = TRUE;
  return $paths;
}

/**
 * Implements hook_admin_paths_alter().
 */
function mymodule_admin_paths_alter(&$paths) {
  $paths['user'] = TRUE;
  $paths['user/*'] = TRUE;
}

it all seems to work fine - clicking on the new 'Custom' link in the navigation menu, as well as any user-related links, takes me into the overlay when I am logged in as an administrator.

Is it possible you forgot to define the page callback for your menu item? If I remove the mymodule_custom_page() function above, I get some weird behavior similar to what you are describing... so I wonder if that could be it.

Hope that helps!

Hi there! I'm trying to load a node directly into overlay from a view link but I get the same weird behavior described by David and the page gets redirected to the node page instead of opening the overlay.

Here is my code:

/**
 * Implements hook_menu().
 */
function restylr_helper_menu() {
  $items['item/%node'] = array(
    'page arguments' => array(1),
    'page callback' => 'item_overlay_page',
    'access callback' => TRUE,
    'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM,
  );
  return $items;
}
function item_overlay_page($node) {
  
  $contents = node_view($node, 'full');
  $output = drupal_render($contents);

  return $output;
}
/**
 * Implements hook_admin_paths().
 */
function restylr_helper_admin_paths() {
  $paths['item/*'] = TRUE;
  return $paths;
}
/**
 * Implements hook_admin_paths_alter().
 */
function restylr_helper_admin_paths_alter(&$paths) {
  $paths['item'] = TRUE;
  $paths['item/*'] = TRUE;
  $paths['item/*/view'] = TRUE;
  $paths['item/*/edit'] = TRUE;
}

Can you help me out?