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Hide Local Task Menu Tabs in Drupal

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Submitted by tyler on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 16:47
Updated: 2013-04-02
Category: 
Code
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drupal 6.x
menu
planet drupal

Here is how you can hide certain local task menu tabs in Drupal by utilizing theme_menu_local_task. The example below demonstrates how to hide the 'View' tab on user account profile pages. This code goes in your theme's template.php file.

function tf_menu_local_task ($link, $active = FALSE) {
  if (strpos($link,"/users/") !== false) { // we are on a user's page...
    if (strpos($link,">View<") !== false) { /* hide the 'view' tab */ return ''; }
  }
  // default render
  return '<li ' . ($active ? 'class="active" ' : '') . '>' . $link . "</li>\n";
}

So, with this code we are actually preventing it from being rendered.

Comments

satheesh kumar (not verified)

Fri, 05/11/2012 - 07:22

Thanks it working fine...

satheesh kumar (not verified)

Fri, 05/11/2012 - 07:37

its also working... perfect way to use..

function hook_menu_alter(&$menu) {
unset($menu['linkname']);
}

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tyler

Fri, 05/11/2012 - 09:50

Thank you, your solution looks much more elegant!

Elin (not verified)

Sat, 03/21/2015 - 05:59

A much better way would be to set the menu type to MENU_CALLBACK instead of unsetting the menu item completely:

  function yourmodule_menu_alter(&$items) {
    $items['linkname']['type'] = MENU_CALLBACK;
  }

The advantage of that, the menu item and therefore the functionality of this menu item is still there, but there is no menu link for that path.

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tyler

Sat, 03/21/2015 - 11:02

My 2015 self definitely agrees with you on this! ;)