function _menu_link_build

Builds a link from a router item.

Related topics

Menu system
Define the navigation menus, and route page requests to code based on URLs.
2 calls to _menu_link_build()
menu_reset_item in drupal/modules/menu/menu.module
Reset a system-defined menu link.
_menu_navigation_links_rebuild in drupal/includes/menu.inc
Builds menu links for the items in the menu router.

File

drupal/includes/menu.inc, line 2856
API for the Drupal menu system.

Code

function _menu_link_build($item) {

  // Suggested items are disabled by default.
  if ($item['type'] == MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM) {
    $item['hidden'] = 1;
  }
  elseif (!($item['type'] & MENU_VISIBLE_IN_TREE)) {
    $item['hidden'] = -1;
  }

  // Note, we set this as 'system', so that we can be sure to distinguish all
  // the menu links generated automatically from entries in {menu_router}.
  $item['module'] = 'system';
  $item += array(
    'menu_name' => 'navigation',
    'link_title' => $item['title'],
    'link_path' => $item['path'],
    'hidden' => 0,
    'options' => empty($item['description']) ? array() : array(
      'attributes' => array(
        'title' => $item['description'],
      ),
    ),
  );
  return $item;
}