Question

I’m trying to use hook_menu to create a link to a view which takes an argument. However if I use the path (in $items[view-path/%dest]) that I’ve already set as the path in the view then the link doesn’t appear. I’m guessing there’s a path conflict somewhere. Is there a way round this? Or can I use another method to return the view?

I’m using the following code:

/**
* implementation of hook_menu().
*/

function sign_custom_menu() {
  $items['view-path/%dest'] = array(
    'title' => 'Link to view',
    'page callback' => 'sign_custom_hello',
    'page arguments' => array(1), //(corrected typo from 'page arguements')
    'access callback' => TRUE,
    'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM,
    'menu_name' => 'menu-student-links',
  );

  return $items;
}

function dest_to_arg() {
  // would normally be dynamic to get view with correct argument
  $arg = 73;
  return $arg;
}

Thanks in advance.

Addition

function sign_custom_hello() {
    //return t('Hello!');
}

Answer 1

I managed to answer my problem. Basically I used a different path to the one I had set in the view and then used views_page() as my “page callback”. I passed it the arguments for the view, the page ID and it’s own additional arguments to make the view work. I was able to use a wildcard in the menu item to pass to views_page() by using the to_arg() function that works with hook_menu() to pass in wildcards. The ‘page arguments’ pass in the three arguments. The last argument, “1” is a reference to which position in the path the argument appears (starting from 0).

The working code is:

<?php
/**
* implementation of hook_menu().
*/

function sign_custom_menu() {
    $items['view-path/%dest'] = array(
        'title' => 'link to view',
        'page callback' => 'views_page',
        'page arguments' => array('view_name', 'page_1', 1),
        'access callback' => TRUE,
        'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM,
        'menu_name' => 'menu-student-links',
    );
    return $items;
}

//this function is needed from the "%dest" argument in hook_menu above 

function dest_to_arg() {
    // would normally be dynamic to get view with correct argument
    $arg = 73;
    return $arg;
}
?>