menu_set_active_item

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Definition

menu_set_active_item($path = NULL)
includes/menu.inc, line 430

Description

Sets the path of the active menu item.

Related topics

Name	Description
Menu system	Define the navigation menus, and route page requests to code based on URLs.

Code

<?php
function menu_set_active_item($path = NULL) {
  static $stored_mid;

  if (!isset($stored_mid) || isset($path)) {
    if (!isset($path)) {
      $path = $_GET['q'];
    }
    else {
      $_GET['q'] = $path;
    }
    $menu = menu_get_menu();

    while ($path && !isset($menu['path index'][$path])) {
      $path = substr($path, 0, strrpos($path, '/'));
    }
    $stored_mid = isset($menu['path index'][$path]) ? $menu['path index'][$path] : 0;

    // Search for default local tasks to activate instead of this item.
    $continue = TRUE;
    while ($continue) {
      $continue = FALSE;
      if (isset($menu['items'][$stored_mid]['children'])) {
        foreach ($menu['items'][$stored_mid]['children'] as $cid) {
          if ($menu['items'][$cid]['type'] & MENU_LINKS_TO_PARENT) {
            $stored_mid = $cid;
            $continue = TRUE;
          }
        }
      }
    }

    // Reset the cached $menu in menu_get_item().
    menu_get_item(NULL, NULL, TRUE);
  }

  return $stored_mid;
}
?>