Drupal Menu system is great indeed but it lacks support for arguments and links based on some custom php logic. Consider a scenario when you want to create a facebook style login bar that when logged out displays a facebook type horizontal login bar with username and password fields and after logged in, displays primary links including a link to current user and logout.
Follow the steps and you will get something like that working.
1- Create a block with following code and php code as input filter:
<?php
print "<ul id='mylinkbar'>";
print "<li><a href='#'>Link Title</a></li>";//add your primary links manually
print "<li><a href='#'>Link Title</a></li>";
print "<li><a href='#'>Link Title</a></li>";
global
$user;
if ($user->uid) {
print "<li>";
print l($user->name,"user");
print "</li>";
print "<li>";
print l(" Log Out " ,"logout");
print "</li>";
}
print "</ul>";
?>2- Add this block in the region you want this link bar to appear e.g. primary links, header, footer region or whatever region you have in your theme.
3- Add the default Drupal User Login Block in same region as above.
4- Add the following css code at the end of your stylesheet. Change the colors and other variable properties as per your theme.
// Css Code for making Default Drupal Block to appear as horizontal bar.
#block-user-0 {
margin: 2em 0 1em;
}
#block-user-0 *
{
display: inline;
color:#292928;
}
#edit-user-login-block {
display:none; /* rehide hidden form element */
}
#block-user-0 h2 {
font-size: 92%;
}
#block-user-0 .form-item {
margin-left: 1em;
font-size:11px;
}
#block-user-0 li {
list-style:none;
background:none;
}
#block-user-0 .form-text{
font-size:10px;
height:12px;
width:70px;
}
#block-user-0 .form-submit{
font-size:11px;
height:19px;
}
// Css Code for your custom link bar
#mylinkbar{
display:inline;
list-style-image:none;
background:none;
}
#mylinkbar li{
display:inline;
list-style-image:none;
margin-left:5px;
margin-right:5px;
background:none;
}
Thats all you need to do. You can play with it and customize as per your abilities.
Also have a visit to http://drupal.org/node/17272 for some similar code snippets.
Also check out the following post to see how to highlight the current url link:
http://www.dashplanet.com/tutorials/webmasters/drupal-cms/identifying-fo...
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