Drupal 8 version of special_menu_items

Thanks for your proposition. But for now, instead of working on a D8 version it would be better to spend your time to try to get this bug fixed in core #1543750: Allow menu items without path.

And sadly it's to late for this one #1287610: Create a Menu Item Type API.

I will work on the D8 version as soon as their is a RC out.

Did this ever get fixed in d8 core?

Curious if we'll need this mod in 8?

Many thanks :)

We will certainly need it.

Hi all, now that the release candidates are out and a release date is announced I am wondering what the status of this port is and if there is anything that we can do to help make it happen?

Wonder how this sandbox module compares to Special Menu Items:

https://www.drupal.org/sandbox/danielbeeke/2515610

Also, if a D8 version is made, we could follow the convention that core might follow using "<none>" for the link.

Since any change in core won't happen until 8.1, I would love to see this available in contrib for 8.0.

So patch welcome.

I agree https://www.drupal.org/sandbox/danielbeeke/2515610 is what we need. Simple and efficient. I don't think upgrade path is really that critical for this module.

Gagarine, does the "Menu link placeholder" sandbox module work for you? I get an Error 500 whenever I try to display the frontend (with an empty menu link placed on it)...

mod_fcgid: stderr: Uncaught PHP Exception Symfony\\Component\\Routing\\Exception\\RouteNotFoundException: "Route "" does not exist." at .../core/lib/Drupal/Core/Routing/RouteProvider.php line 191

Would be so nice to get it to work because I need this functionality immediately...

Updating issue title for clarity in dashboard views.

Not sure what has changed in core, but now on 8.1.10 it seems when the required flag is disabled by Special menu items, the "nolink" item's route gets transformed into "".

Quick and dirty patch included to change the preprocess function to look for that, this gets the module working for me. As the basic functionality is in 8.2.0 and it's coming out any time now, I don't think anything grander should be done about this before that. (If I understood correctly the Core issue, it'll be only necessary to circumvent form validation in a way that is reasonable to make it work in 8.2.0.)

Sorry, broken patch, new try.

On 8.2.1, patch #15 is not required. Leaving link field empty results in the expected behavior.

Actually, the patch will break the functionality.

#1543750: Allow menu items without path explains that no-link menu items can be created in >=8.2.0 by entering route:<nolink> into the link field.

Is there a roadmap for an alpha or beta release?
Is there any major task preventing a release? What can be done to help?

If you want non-linking menu items in Core > 8.2, just enter route:<nolink> in menu item link field, you do not need this module.

Holist, this works for me. Thanks for letting us know!!

Great. I updated the documentation and therefore close this issue as core support no link.

Thanks holist for update.

Thanks holist .. Thats great. route:<nolink>