How to add menu entry for certain node type?

[Xell Zhang]

Hi,

For example I have 2 node types:
1. company
2. employee

I hope for company node I have a path like "node/123/employees" which  
goes to the page display an employee list of this company.

But i do not hope nodes in other types have this path, how to do that?

thanks!

[Jamie Holly]

Look at:

http://drupal.org/project/pathauto

You can have automatic generated URL aliases dependent upon content type.

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net 
http://www.hollyit.net



Zhang Xiao wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For example I have 2 node types:
> 1. company
> 2. employee
>
> I hope for company node I have a path like "node/123/employees" which  
> goes to the page display an employee list of this company.
>
> But i do not hope nodes in other types have this path, how to do that?
>
> thanks!
>
>  

[Jeff Greenberg-3]

Jamie Holly wrote:

> Look at:
>
> http://drupal.org/project/pathauto
>
> You can have automatic generated URL aliases dependent upon content type.

and, maybe more importantly, depending on your need, you can 'peek'
inside and see how it's done :-)

[Greg Knaddison - GVS]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Zhang Xiao <xellzhang@...> wrote:
> For example I have 2 node types:
> 1. company
> 2. employee
>
> I hope for company node I have a path like "node/123/employees" which goes
> to the page display an employee list of this company.
>
> But i do not hope nodes in other types have this path, how to do that?

I don't think Pathauto or it's inner workings are the solution here.
I think the solution is cck nodereference + views and a validator on
the nid argument for "node type" is "company".

Regards,
Greg (i.e. maintainer of Pathauto).


--
Greg Knaddison | 303-800-5623 | http://growingventuresolutions.com
Mastering Drupal - http://www.masteringdrupal.com

[Xell Zhang]

hmm... thanks for the replies.
but i think you did not get my idea...

As in default theme Garland, if you go to a node page as an admin, you  
can see the tabs:
view: node/123/view
edit: node/123/edit

so what i want is also a tab here:
employees: node/123/employees (when and only when node 123 is a  
company node)

let's say node/456 is not a company node, then there is no tab called  
"employees" in node 456's page.

Does this make sense?

Sorry for my bad English expression ;P

On Nov 2, 2009, at 12:54 AM, Greg Knaddison wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Zhang Xiao <xellzhang@...>  
> wrote:
>> For example I have 2 node types:
>> 1. company
>> 2. employee
>>
>> I hope for company node I have a path like "node/123/employees"  
>> which goes
>> to the page display an employee list of this company.
>>
>> But i do not hope nodes in other types have this path, how to do  
>> that?
>
> I don't think Pathauto or it's inner workings are the solution here.
> I think the solution is cck nodereference + views and a validator on
> the nid argument for "node type" is "company".
>
> Regards,
> Greg (i.e. maintainer of Pathauto).
>
>
> --
> Greg Knaddison | 303-800-5623 | http://growingventuresolutions.com
> Mastering Drupal - http://www.masteringdrupal.com

[Xell Zhang]

btw, I think I should use hook_link() for this case.

But I am curious if menu system can do that?

On Nov 2, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Zhang Xiao wrote:

> hmm... thanks for the replies.
> but i think you did not get my idea...
>
> As in default theme Garland, if you go to a node page as an admin,  
> you can see the tabs:
> view: node/123/view
> edit: node/123/edit
>
> so what i want is also a tab here:
> employees: node/123/employees (when and only when node 123 is a  
> company node)
>
> let's say node/456 is not a company node, then there is no tab  
> called "employees" in node 456's page.
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> Sorry for my bad English expression ;P
>
> On Nov 2, 2009, at 12:54 AM, Greg Knaddison wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Zhang Xiao <xellzhang@...>  
>> wrote:
>>> For example I have 2 node types:
>>> 1. company
>>> 2. employee
>>>
>>> I hope for company node I have a path like "node/123/employees"  
>>> which goes
>>> to the page display an employee list of this company.
>>>
>>> But i do not hope nodes in other types have this path, how to do  
>>> that?
>>
>> I don't think Pathauto or it's inner workings are the solution here.
>> I think the solution is cck nodereference + views and a validator on
>> the nid argument for "node type" is "company".
>>
>> Regards,
>> Greg (i.e. maintainer of Pathauto).
>>
>>
>> --
>> Greg Knaddison | 303-800-5623 | http://growingventuresolutions.com
>> Mastering Drupal - http://www.masteringdrupal.com
>

[Matt Chapman-10]

Views module can provide what you need.

http://drupal.org/project/views

The support mailing list or forums can help you with the details after
you've read the available documentation.

Good luck,

Matt



Zhang Xiao wrote:

> hmm... thanks for the replies.
> but i think you did not get my idea...
>
> As in default theme Garland, if you go to a node page as an admin, you
> can see the tabs:
> view: node/123/view
> edit: node/123/edit
>
> so what i want is also a tab here:
> employees: node/123/employees (when and only when node 123 is a
> company node)
>
> let's say node/456 is not a company node, then there is no tab called
> "employees" in node 456's page.
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> Sorry for my bad English expression ;P
>
> On Nov 2, 2009, at 12:54 AM, Greg Knaddison wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Zhang Xiao <xellzhang@...> wrote:
>>> For example I have 2 node types:
>>> 1. company
>>> 2. employee
>>>
>>> I hope for company node I have a path like "node/123/employees"
>>> which goes
>>> to the page display an employee list of this company.
>>>
>>> But i do not hope nodes in other types have this path, how to do that?
>>
>> I don't think Pathauto or it's inner workings are the solution here.
>> I think the solution is cck nodereference + views and a validator on
>> the nid argument for "node type" is "company".
>>
>> Regards,
>> Greg (i.e. maintainer of Pathauto).
>>
>>
>> --
>> Greg Knaddison | 303-800-5623 | http://growingventuresolutions.com
>> Mastering Drupal - http://www.masteringdrupal.com
>

[Andrew Berry-3]

On 2009-11-02, at 12:25 AM, Zhang Xiao wrote:

> let's say node/456 is not a company node, then there is no tab  
> called "employees" in node 456's page.

Yes, you can do this without much code with CCK and Views. It's likely  
the best solution - if you're new to Drupal, please look at those  
before writing another custom module :). But, that doesn't answer the  
development question of adding a menu tab on nodes of a specific  
content type (which is what Views would do for you automatically).

What you want to do is set the 'access callback' and 'access  
arguments' in your hook_menu() implementation. If the node doesn't  
meet the conditions to show the menu tab, return FALSE. signup has a  
nicely documented example; take a look at signup's signup_menu() and  
_signup_menu_access() functions.

--Andrew

[Xell Zhang]

oh... how stupid i am... totally forgot the access callback.... thanks  
you very much man!

On Nov 3, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Andrew Berry wrote:

> On 2009-11-02, at 12:25 AM, Zhang Xiao wrote:
>
>> let's say node/456 is not a company node, then there is no tab  
>> called "employees" in node 456's page.
>
> Yes, you can do this without much code with CCK and Views. It's  
> likely the best solution - if you're new to Drupal, please look at  
> those before writing another custom module :). But, that doesn't  
> answer the development question of adding a menu tab on nodes of a  
> specific content type (which is what Views would do for you  
> automatically).
>
> What you want to do is set the 'access callback' and 'access  
> arguments' in your hook_menu() implementation. If the node doesn't  
> meet the conditions to show the menu tab, return FALSE. signup has a  
> nicely documented example; take a look at signup's signup_menu() and  
> _signup_menu_access() functions.
>
> --Andrew