Menu items shown in Navigation menu?

Question

I made a module for displaying nodes(links) from database. And I have simple question, why are the links displayed in the navigation menu? I want to be displayed in a separate menu (like navigation menu with my custom title etc etc...), but whatever I do they show up in the navigation menu.

function test_menu(){

$items = array(); 

  $items['test1'] = array(
    'title callback'   => 'test_callback1',
    'page callback'    => 'test_output1',
    'access arguments' => array('access content'),
    'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM,
  );

      $items['test2'] = array(
    'title callback'   => 'test_callback2',
    'page callback'    => 'test_output2',
    'access arguments' => array('access content'),
    'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM,

  );
       ..... etc etc
      return $items;
}

This is page-test.tpl.php

<?php
 print $content;
 ?>

Answer 1

It's because you're using the MENU_NORMAL_ITEM type, which will add the item to a menu, and haven't set a menu_name. From the docs:

"menu_name": Optional. Set this to a custom menu if you don't want your item to be placed in Navigation.

If you want to add the link to a different menu try something like this:

$items['test1'] = array(
  'title callback'   => 'test_callback1',
  'page callback'    => 'test_output1',
  'access arguments' => array('access content'),
  'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM,
  'menu_name' => 'main-menu'
);

If you don't want the link to be added to a menu automatically at all, change MENU_NORMAL_ITEM to MENU_CALLBACK.

Remember to clear the caches when you make any change to hook_menu(), otherwise the changes won't be picked up.