Pass URL to menu item call back

Question

I'm implementing hook_menu to add a new tab to the user account page. I'd like to pass a URL as the page callback (a local URL for an existing page on the site). the page_callback parameters just accepts a function name. How would I go about using that to pass a URL?

Answer 1

You can use page arguments:

function MYMODULE_menu() {
  $items['foo'] = array(
    'title' => 'Bar',
    'access arguments' => array('access content'),
    'page callback' => 'MYMODULE_baz',
    'page arguments' => array('http://google.com', 'another arg'),
  );

  return $items;
}

function MYMODULE_baz($url, $another_arg) {
  // Do something with $url, e.g. redirect.
  drupal_goto($url);
}

That's quite a contrived example, if you are redirecting, you could shorten that by just using drupal_goto as the callback:

function MYMODULE_menu() {
  $items['foo'] = array(
    'title' => 'Bar',
    'access arguments' => array('access content'),
    'page callback' => 'drupal_goto',
    'page arguments' => array('http://google.com'),
  );

  return $items;
}