user/%/edit - remove it from tab and make it an actual menu item

Question

I am pretty clueless on how drupal handles such things and I can't seem to grasp the context.

I want a menu link to user/%/edit (using menu token already). But as it seems /edit is a 'tab' item of the user/% menu (also saw it in the db). Using theming I have visually removed the unwanted tabs and I've also merged the user/edit form with the profile2 forms I need for extra fields using form_alter.

The problem is that even though I have a menu link called "My Account" linking to user/%/edit, whenever I click it to go there, the "Edit" menu link appears as active in my main menu instead of the "My Account".

Is there any way to remedy this?

If the question is not clear I will revise it cause it's a pretty confusing issue.

EDIT: to avoid similar answers, the problem is not how to visually remove the tabs, the problem is how to somehow alter or ignore the user/* menu structure so the "Edit" part is not a separate tab anymore and thus it won't show when I click the link that leads to to user/%/edit

Answer 1

Those that will stumble upon this looking for a way to do this without coding and using existing modules try using:

1. The Tab Tamer module to remove the account 'edit' tab. It is an administration utility that provides easy re-ordering, hiding, and deactivation of tabs and subtabs. You can also rename tab labels.

2. The Menu Token module to move the account edit menu item to any other menu. This module provides tokens, that could be used in title or in path of menu items (links). For example, if you create menu item with path: "user/[current-user:uid]/edit", the url will be changed "on fly" to: "user/1/edit" (assuming you are user 1).

Answer 2

You want to alter the original menu item that was defined in user.module's hook_menu(). You can do this in hook_menu_alter().

The item's array key is simply the path, so:

function hook_menu_alter(&$items) {
  $items['user/%/edit'] = array(
    'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK,
    'page callback' => 'my_custom_page_callback',
    'page arguments' => array(1),
    'access callback' => TRUE,
  ),
}

Answer 3

If I understand correctly, you might be able to utilise menu_tree_set_path() in a custom module.

EDIT:

It look like the Menu Trail By Path module might do what you want to long as the path is correct! It utilises menu_tree_set_path() and takes all the legwork out for you!

Answer 4

Ok guys figured it out. The 'bug' part was cause I was using Menu Position for various reasons including this portion of the sub-menu and it had a settings tab that I didn't notice before.

Switching from "Insert the current page's title into the menu tree" - which caused the "Edit" to get inserted - to "Mark the rule's parent menu item as being "active"" fixed it all for me.

Other than that I just had to use menu token as usual to create the actual url to the edit page. But all the fuss was because of that one wrong setting, thanks for your time.