Wildcard link for user menu

Question

I have a dropping menu links for the user menu:

My account

• Profile edit
• My posts (track)
• Exit

Here's an example of my code:

  <ul id="userNavigation">
                <li><?php echo l(t("Profile edit"), "user/%/edit"); ?></li>
                <li><?php echo l(t("My posts"), "user/%/track"); ?></li>
                <li class="exit"><?php echo l(t("Exit"), "user/logout"); ?></li>
            </ul> 

I've tried with wildcard %. With a Views module was very easy, but in this case (without views) it's not working. Is any other way so when user clicks on "My posts" will link to user/user_id/track or profile edit that will lead to user/user_id/edit?

Answer 1

You cannot use menu wildcards like that. You need to use the following code.

  <ul id="userNavigation">
    <li><?php echo l(t("Profile edit"), 'user/' . $GLOBALS['user']->uid . '/edit'); ?></li>
    <li><?php echo l(t("My posts"), 'user/' . $GLOBALS['user']->uid . '/track'); ?></li>
    <li class="exit"><?php echo l(t("Exit"), "user/logout"); ?></li>
  </ul>

The global $user is the user object for the currently logged-in user. Be careful: It is not a fully-loaded user object. If you need that, you should use the value returned from user_uid_optional_load().