How to add a tab to the node in Drupal

February 11th, 2010 | in
Drupal

And another Drupal tip for today: "How to add a tab to the node in Drupal":

Put this snippet in hook_menu of your new module:

$items['node/%node/new_tab']  = array(
    'title' => 'New Tab',
    'page callback' => 'mycallback',
    'page arguments' => array(1),
    'access callback'   => TRUE,
    'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK
)

This tab is going to be shown on any node type and without access restrictions,

however, if you need to specify a special node type, 'custom_node' for example, do the following:

put this snippet in hook_menu of your new module:

$items['node/%custom_node/new_tab'] = array(
    'title' => 'New Tab',
    'page callback' => 'mycallback',
    'page arguments' => array(1),
    'access callback'   => TRUE,
    'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK
)

And create a function:

function custom_node_load($arg) {
  $node = node_load($arg);
  if($node->type == 'custom_node')
    return $node;
  return FALSE;
}

Hope this helps!

Tags 

drupal planet, drupal 6

Comments

Submitted by teemak on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 15:24

Hello!

Thanks but I've a problem with it... it doesn't work!
Maybe there is a conflict with pathauto?

Submitted by teemak on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 15:56

Ok I found the problem. I can't put the pathauto directly in the URL.... Thx

Submitted by braindump on Tue, 09/21/2010 - 12:55

Thanks for sharing this such a wonderful post

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