highlight the menu items related to the particular content type

Question

How to highlight the menu items related to the particular content type? Actually I want whenever the user visits the page related to the particular content type,it should highlight the particular menu item. Context module is the one solution for this. Is any other custom coding solution without installing any module?

Answer 1

You can use theme_menu_link function. Add this code to template.php of your theme

function themename_menu_link(array $variables) {
  $path_parts = array();
  $element  = $variables['element'];
  $sub_menu = '';
  $menuName = $variables['element']["#original_link"]["menu_name"];
  //Check menu name
  if($menuName == 'main-menu')
  {
    $path_parts = explode('/',$element['#href']);
    if($path_parts[0]=='node' && is_numeric($path_parts[1]))
    {
      $menu_load_node = node_load($path_parts[1]);
      //Check node type (In our case 'article')
      if($menu_load_node->type == 'article')
      {
        $element['#attributes']['class'][] = 'highlight';
      }
    }
  }
  if ($element['#below']) {
    $sub_menu = drupal_render($element['#below']);
  }
  $output = l($element['#title'], $element['#href'], $element['#localized_options']);
  return '<li' . drupal_attributes($element['#attributes']) . '>' . $output . $sub_menu . "</li>\n";
}

All links to nodes with type 'article' will have class highlight