Menu secondary tabs

Question

How do I create secondary local tasks with hook_menu in Drupal 7?

For instance, if I wanted to add a new tab to a node, that presented multiple tasks beneath it?

• View
• Edit
• Update
  • Price
  • Photo
  • Person

Answer 1

You should use a combination of the MENU_LOCAL_TASK and MENU_DEFAULT_LOCAL_TASK types:

 $items['node/%node/update'] = array(
   'title' => 'Update',
   'page callback' => 'price_callback_function',
   'access arguments' => array('access args'),
   'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK // This adds the 'Update' tab to the node path
 );

 $items['node/%node/update/price'] = array(
   'title' => 'Price',
   'type' => MENU_DEFAULT_LOCAL_TASK,
   'weight' => -10
 );

 $items['node/%node/update/photo'] = array(
   'title' => 'Photo',
   'page callback' => 'callback_function',
   'access arguments' => array('access args'),
   'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK // This adds another tab under 'Update'
 );

// etc...

You can control the order of the tab using the weight key in your menu item.

Don't forget to clear Drupal's cache once you add this to hook_menu()