Let me fully describe the problem I am trying to solve as there may be a better way of doing what I am trying to do.
On my Drupal 7 install, when a user is logged out, the Main menu shows Home / Log In and a few other links I've added. This is $primary_nav in the theme.
When a user is logged in, a Log Out link is added.
What is confusing however, is that there is still a login link in the Main menu.
My solution was to create a second menu that would replace the Log in link with a link to the user's account page when they are logged in. All other links would remain the same.
In the template, I am doing the following:
<?php // show different menus depending on if the user is logged in ?>
<?php if ($user->uid): ?>
<?php $menu = menu_navigation_links('user-menu'); ?>
<?php print theme('links__menu_user_menu', array('links' => $menu)); ?>
<?php else: print $primary_nav; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
And this correctly shows the right menu depending on whether the use is logged in or not.
However, the styles are completely different. $primary_nav is a horizontal menu and user-menu is a vertical menu.
According to http://drupal.org/node/254940#theme-suggestions-for-menus, I should be able to create a function in my theme's template.php file and style it. However, I tried doing the following:
function MYTHEME_menu_tree__user_menu(&$variables) {
echo 'Success'; exit;
}
But that code is not run.
So my questions are these:
1) Is this the best approach to replace Log In with a link to the user account page when the user is logged in?
2a) If so, what's the best way to get the menu styled the way I want it?
2b) If not, how can I achieve the effect listed in 1)?
Thanks!
