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Gael Lafond
Gael Lafond
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I just want to add my experience to the lot. I had similar issues using Drupal menu. The solution I used is:

  • Set all menu items with children to "Expanded". This as to be done manually: Structure > Menus > List links, edit links which has children, check the Show as expanded checkbox.
  • Use menu_tree_page_data function (example: $menu_tree = menu_tree_page_data('main_menu''main-menu')) to get the menu, with all its children AND with active trail.
  • Create a renderable array using menu_tree_output function (example: $renderable_array = menu_tree_output($menu_tree)) to prepare the menu for rendering.
  • Use the renderable array as content for my custom block, but you could call drupal_render($renderable_array) to get the rendered HTML representing the menu.

I just want to add my experience to the lot. I had similar issues using Drupal menu. The solution I used is:

  • Set all menu items with children to "Expanded". This as to be done manually: Structure > Menus > List links, edit links which has children, check the Show as expanded checkbox.
  • Use menu_tree_page_data function (example: $menu_tree = menu_tree_page_data('main_menu')) to get the menu, with all its children AND with active trail.
  • Create a renderable array using menu_tree_output function (example: $renderable_array = menu_tree_output($menu_tree)) to prepare the menu for rendering.
  • Use the renderable array as content for my custom block, but you could call drupal_render($renderable_array) to get the rendered HTML representing the menu.

I just want to add my experience to the lot. I had similar issues using Drupal menu. The solution I used is:

  • Set all menu items with children to "Expanded". This as to be done manually: Structure > Menus > List links, edit links which has children, check the Show as expanded checkbox.
  • Use menu_tree_page_data function (example: $menu_tree = menu_tree_page_data('main-menu')) to get the menu, with all its children AND with active trail.
  • Create a renderable array using menu_tree_output function (example: $renderable_array = menu_tree_output($menu_tree)) to prepare the menu for rendering.
  • Use the renderable array as content for my custom block, but you could call drupal_render($renderable_array) to get the rendered HTML representing the menu.
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Gael Lafond
Gael Lafond
  • 151
  • 4

I just want to add my experience to the lot. I had similar issues using Drupal menu. The solution I used is:

  • Set all menu items with children to "Expanded". This as to be done manually: Structure > Menus > List links, edit links which has children, check the Show as expanded checkbox.
  • Use menu_tree_page_data function (example: $menu_tree = menu_tree_page_data('main_menu')) to get the menu, with all its children AND with active trail.
  • Create a renderable array using menu_tree_output function (example: $renderable_array = menu_tree_output($menu_tree)) to prepare the menu for rendering.
  • Use the renderable array as content for my custom block, but you could call drupal_render($renderable_array) to get the rendered HTML representing the menu.