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drupal 8 add menu link programmatically

by Dr. Eldora Swaniawski II Published 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago
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Drupal Share Code snippet that can be used to create menu link programmatically in drupal 8. to add menu links juste use MenuLinkContent::create() function where you want.

Full Answer

How do I create a custom menu link in Drupal 8?

If you head over to Structure -> Menus in a Drupal 8 site, you will see existing menu's. Main navigation is the one that we want. Click on Edit menu and you'll see the links already defined for the menu. If this is a fresh install, it will probably just be Home.

How to create menu in drupal 8 programmatically?

Code snippet that can be used to create menu link programmatically in drupal 8. to add menu links juste use MenuLinkContent::create() function where you want.

What is a route?

A route determines which code should be run to generate the response when a URI is requested. It does this by mapping a URI to a controller class and method. This defines how Drupal deals with a specific URI. Routes are based on Symfony’s routing system.

How is this different to Drupal 7?

In Drupal 7, you add a route and menu item in the same place, in hook menu.

Create a menu link

To demonstrate the Drupal 8 menu system, we will add a menu link to the main navigation menu.

Admin menu

If you have an admin form, you might want your form to be listed in the Configuration section of the admin interface. To do that, the parent will be one of the menu links listed under Administration. Just like above, you can find the name spaced menu name via the menu interface.

Complete code

Here is the full code for this example. If you have already been following along with previous tutorials in this series and created the hello module, you could skips to step 5 and 6.

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