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I am looking to hide a menu item based on the path of a couples pages. It would be similar to how blocks can be shown on or not shown on a path. My initial attempts revealed that the caching of menus does not permit one to have the ability to remove menu items per page load.

hook_menu_alter() only runs once after a cache clear and then the menu is retrieved from the cache. Does anyone have any ideas on how to accomplish this or is it a futile attempt?

Thanks.

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Yes you can by using an access callback which when defined calls a function. In this function you can analyze the path and based on that return TRUE or FALSE. When you return FALSE, the menu item is not visible. See the documentation of hook_menu for more details.

A simple example:

// in hook_menu something like this, important part is the 'access callback'
 $items["menu/item"] = array(
     'title' => "menu item 1",
     'description' => 'Access test',
     'page callback' => 'node/1',
     'access callback' => 'check_path',
     'menu_name' => 'navigation',
     'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM,
 );

// then define your access callback function
  function check_path(){
    // check path here and return TRUE or FALSE
    return TRUE;
  }

I just asked a similar question dealing with this: How to build a dynamic menu structure. You may find more information in that question that can help you.

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  • Just sat down to try this out and realized before trying anything that this would work if I defined the menu path in a module. The catch here is that the menu item exists already. I need to modify an existing menu item to so I should use hook_menu_alter() and add a custom access callback that way.
    – Jepedo
    Oct 31, 2011 at 15:24
  • Completely correct, I forgot to mention that. Beware that hook_menu_alter() is only called with a menu rebuild though.
    – Whiskey
    Oct 31, 2011 at 19:56
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Also worth mentioning there is the module path access. Here you can restrict paths by role, in a nice administrator interface. I have used this on several sites.

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