menu_get_item

Get a router item.

Parameters

$path: The path, for example node/5. The function will find the corresponding node/% item and return that.

$router_item: Internal use only.

Return value

The router item, an associate array corresponding to one row in the menu_router table. The value of key map holds the loaded objects. The value of key access is TRUE if the current user can access this page. The values for key title, page_arguments, access_arguments will be filled in based on the database values and the objects loaded.

Related topics

Menu system

Define the navigation menus, and route page requests to code based on URLs.

14 calls to menu_get_item()

File

includes/menu.inc, line 304

API for the Drupal menu system.

Code

function menu_get_item($path = NULL, $router_item = NULL) {
  static $router_items;
  if (!isset($path)) {
    $path = $_GET['q'];
  }
  if (isset($router_item)) {
    $router_items[$path] = $router_item;
  }
  if (!isset($router_items[$path])) {
    $original_map = arg(NULL, $path);
    $parts = array_slice($original_map, 0, MENU_MAX_PARTS);
    list($ancestors, $placeholders) = menu_get_ancestors($parts);

    if ($router_item = db_fetch_array(db_query_range('SELECT * FROM {menu_router} WHERE path IN (' . implode(',', $placeholders) . ') ORDER BY fit DESC', $ancestors, 0, 1))) {
      $map = _menu_translate($router_item, $original_map);
      if ($map === FALSE) {
        $router_items[$path] = FALSE;
        return FALSE;
      }
      if ($router_item['access']) {
        $router_item['map'] = $map;
        $router_item['page_arguments'] = array_merge(menu_unserialize($router_item['page_arguments'], $map), array_slice($map, $router_item['number_parts']));
      }
    }
    $router_items[$path] = $router_item;
  }
  return $router_items[$path];
}