[UPDATE: Here is a much simpler method for editing a user's roles.] I thought there might be some sort of API function that allows me to add a user role to a user object by the role id (rid), but after looking at user_save() and some other information around the Drupal universe (like this thread), it looks like it's not as easy as I'd hoped.

Before watching this series, you will need a fresh Drupal 7 installation. Follow the videos in the Setting Up a Web Environment With Drupal to get Drupal set up on your Windows, OSX (Mac) or Linux machine. Some of the key points we'll be covering include: Critical Drupal terminology; How to work with content types and fields; Introduction to Oregon State University Web Services Cascade Hall Rm. 119 601 SW 17th Street Corvallis, OR 97333 541-737-1189 Submit a Help Ticket When building sites, often we want to add a menu item that links to a user's account page. The problem is, Drupal menus do not allow for dynamic paths to be used for menu items. User account pages are dynamic paths with the format user/[UID]. One solution is to link to the path /user, which will redirect the user to their account page. Select Administer-> Site building-> Views in the Drupal administrator menu, then click Add in the menu at the top of the page. Enter ‘newest10’ as the view Name. Expand the Block group and check the Provide block box. Under the View Type drop-down select Table View, enter ‘10 Newest’ in the Title and ‘10’ in the Nodes per block.

The following instructions are for websites using the default UMN Drupal Enterprise 7 configuration. Drupal is highly customizable, and your site may have different steps for completing the task. Additionally, your role in Drupal may not have the proper permissions to complete this task. Contact your site administrator for additional information.

The security should go onto the content or the view, rather than the menu itself. For instance, if you have a view that you've set the access to a role of "Content Editor" and "Admin" then only those rolls will even see the link within the menu for that view, and likewise with content. In Drupal development, menu items get explicitly linked to node id, rather than aliases. Even though you might specify a menu link to point to /home, the back-end will store it as node/7. Even though you might specify a menu link to point to /home, the back-end will store it as node/7. Save menu links programatically in Drupal 7. This post is part of a series of posts on making changes in Drupal programmatically rather than in the Drupal interface.. In this tutorial, we will look at saving menu items programmatically. Collaborate with the Drupal community. This site serves the Drupal community by providing a place for groups to organize, plan and work on projects. Real world local user groups (sometimes called meetups) and regional Drupalcamps in particular are encouraged to setup their online presence here.

Drupal will only print ANY tabs if there are two or more, and the only reason an Edit tab will show up is if the user has permission to edit the page (e.g. user is an admin) so, it would be better to simply control access to editing this particular type of content on the permissions page than to perform a redundant check on the theme layer.

Save menu links programatically in Drupal 7. This post is part of a series of posts on making changes in Drupal programmatically rather than in the Drupal interface.. In this tutorial, we will look at saving menu items programmatically. Collaborate with the Drupal community. This site serves the Drupal community by providing a place for groups to organize, plan and work on projects. Real world local user groups (sometimes called meetups) and regional Drupalcamps in particular are encouraged to setup their online presence here. The Drupal 7 Menu Admin Per Menu module is a simple module that allows you to grant permissions for users to administer specific Drupal menus based on their role. This module for instance would allow you to allow one role to modify the Main menu, while not allowing the role to modify a separate menu on your Drupal 7 website. In this episode you will learn: How to allow a specific role to This all starts with good menu maintenance. Navigation is important for visitors to the website. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how easy it is to manage Drupal menus to improve that process. Editing a Menu in Drupal. When creating certain articles and pages in Drupal, you may want to add them to the menu bar. Perhaps you would like In Drupal 8, the routing system has been rebuilt with the use of Symfony components. The routing system is now responsible for path access and many other things. It has taken the leading role in menu creation replacing Drupal 7’s hook_menu(). The menu link configuration is now conveniently stored in separate YAML files. Creating a menu in