Trying to modify Main menu by testing $vars['heading']['text'] == 'Main menu',

Question

I'm trying to modify the code for the main menu only. below is my sorry code, which is not working. it attempts to see if $variables['heading']['text'] equal 'Main menu'

function myTheme_link($variables) {
if($variables['heading']['text'] == 'Main menu') {
//put my mods here
} else {
  return '<a href="' . check_plain(url($variables['path'],     $variables['options'])) . '"' . drupal_attributes($variables['options']    ['attributes']) . '>' . ($variables['options']['html'] ? $variables['text'] :     check_plain($variables['text'])) . '</a>';
}
}

this must be close, no? i would greatly appreciate if someone could advise

Answer 1

How about a pure CSS solution:

#block-system-main-menu ul li:after {
    content:'*';
    padding:20px;
}
#block-system-main-menu ul li.last:after {
    content:'';
}

Or something to that effect.

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Answer 2

You can do it by using this code in template.php file of your active theme.

function mytheme_links__system_main_menu($variables) {
  $html = "<div class='myclass'>";
  $html .= "  <ul>";  
  foreach ($variables['links'] as $link) {
    $html .= "<li>".l($link['title'], $link['path'], $link)."</li>";
  }
  $html .= "  </ul>";
  $html .= "</div>";

  return $html;
} 

or you can add customization in $variables also if we have do minor customization to do. Here replace mytheme with name of your theme. Clear you cache after using this code.

Hope it will help you!