I wanted to set item to be active from my module. After research i found quite easy way to do it.
I found theme_links() which are preparing menu to be displayed. Copy that into template.php in your theme folder.
My function is quite simple:
function YOURTHEMENAME_links($links, $attributes = array('class' => 'links')) { global $language; $output = ''; /** * Make our item active */ if (strpos($_GET['q'],'URLTOMATCH1/') !== false) { $org = $_GET['q']; menu_set_active_item('node/57819'); // nid is taken from primary links } if (strpos($_GET['q'],'URLTOMATCH2') !== false) { $org = $_GET['q']; menu_set_active_item('node/57789'); } if (strpos($_GET['q'],'URLTOMATCH3') !== false) { $org = $_GET['q']; menu_set_active_item('node/57829'); } // inspiration if (strpos($_GET['q'],'inspiration') !== false) { $org = $_GET['q']; menu_set_active_item('node/57839'); } if (count($links) > 0) { $output = '<ul'. drupal_attributes($attributes) .'>'; $num_links = count($links); $i = 1; foreach ($links as $key => $link) { $class = $key; // Add first, last and active classes to the list of links to help out themers. if ($i == 1) { $class .= ' first'; } if ($i == $num_links) { $class .= ' last'; } if (isset($link['href']) && ($link['href'] == $_GET['q'] || ($link['href'] == '<front>' && drupal_is_front_page())) && (empty($link['language']) || $link['language']->language == $language->language)) { $class .= ' active'; } $output .= '<li'. drupal_attributes(array('class' => $class)) .'>'; if (isset($link['href'])) { // Pass in $link as $options, they share the same keys. $output .= l($link['title'], $link['href'], $link); } else if (!empty($link['title'])) { // Some links are actually not links, but we wrap these in <span> for adding title and class attributes if (empty($link['html'])) { $link['title'] = check_plain($link['title']); } $span_attributes = ''; if (isset($link['attributes'])) { $span_attributes = drupal_attributes($link['attributes']); } $output .= '<span'. $span_attributes .'>'. $link['title'] .'</span>'; } $i++; $output .= "</li>\n"; } $output .= '</ul>'; } // set original value menu_set_active_item($org); return $output; } |
