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In my module I need to install custom menu items (add to existing main-menu) on the front-end side. So basically it's a simple one-time operation, yet it rises some questions about the proper way to deal with programatic menu items in general.

  1. hook_install + menu_link_save sounds good for installing the items, hook_uninstall + menu_link_delete - for uninstalling, but how am I supposed to find out the $mlid parameter of the menu link - required by the menu_link_delete function?

  2. Would hook_enable and hook_disable be more suitable?

  3. How do I protect my module's menu items from deleting on the admin UI side?

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You can programatically add/remove menu items on install/uninstall and/or enable/disable events. But that's not how we do usually.

Implement hook_menu and you will be fine to go with almost any menu item implementation.

A few points. Set menu router item's 'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM and it will now be in a menu. Unless you set 'menu_name', it will be placed in the "navigation" menu. See the huge (and very helpful) text on the page. Also, have a look at examples module for high-quality hook_menu examples.

Good luck!

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  • Thanks Ayesh. Let's see if I'm lucky today. On my bilingual site I try to programatically assign a menu router to a particular language, by adding 'options' => array('language' => 'fr') To no avail. Should this work?
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    Commented Nov 26, 2012 at 15:45

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