Question

I would like to use the node-menu (see image) on a page in Drupal.

Is this possible and, if yes, how?

Answer 1

If the page you are referring is a custom page output from your module, and “mymodule/page” is the path for that page, for which you want the tabs “View” and “Edit,” then you should implement hook_menu() using code similar to the following one:

function mymodule_menu() {
  $items = array();

  $items['mymodule/page'] = array(
    'page callback' => 'mymodule_page_view', 
    'access arguments' => array('view mymodule page'),
  );

  $items['mymodule/page/view'] = array(
    'title' => 'View', 
    'type' => MENU_DEFAULT_LOCAL_TASK, 
    'weight' => -10,
  );
  $items['mymodule/page/edit'] = array(
    'title' => 'Edit', 
    'page callback' => 'mymodule_page_edit', 
    'access arguments' => array('edit mymodule page'), 
    'weight' => 0, 
    'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK, 
  );

  return $items;
}

If the page you are referring is a page that is shown at example.com/mymodule/page, and that should show what you see at example.com/node/7, then you can implement the following code, in Drupal 7:

function mymodule_url_inbound_alter(&$path, $original_path, $path_language) {
  if (preg_match('|^mymodule/page|', $path)) {
    $path = 'node/7';
  }
}

The equivalent for Drupal 6 is writing the following code in the settings.php file:

function custom_url_rewrite_inbound(&$result, $path, $path_language) {
  if (preg_match('|^mymodule/page|', $path)) {
    $result = 'node/7';
  }
}

I didn’t write the symmetric code for hook_url_outbound_alter(), and custom_url_rewrite_outbound() as I suppose you are not interested in rewriting example.com/node/7 to make it appear as example.com/mymodule/page, but you are interested in making appear example.com/mymodule/page the same as example.com/node/7.