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1. peterjharrison
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   Was woondering if anyone knows of a way I can call the [_wp_menu_output] function from the front end of my website.

   It is currently located in [wp-admin/menu-header.php] file but I would like to call it from my template.

   I think this is one for the more advnaced WordPress developers, but any help would be cool.

   Regards
   Pete

2. Mark / t31os
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Have you tried including the file?..

   You can't call a function from a file that's not been loaded, so try an include first, then see if your function call works..

3. peterjharrison
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   Thanks for your reply.

   I don't think including the file is going to work there seems to be far to many includes that I will need.

   I've been looking further into the code and what I actually want to use is the $menu and $submenu arrays that are used to build the admin menu in te dashboard.

   Do you know if there is a way of accessing these from within a plugin?

   Regards
   Pete

4. Mark / t31os
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   include( 'wp-admin/menu.php' );

   $menu and $submenu are defined there, include it and you'll have access to the vars..

   Also, if preferred, you hook an action onto..
   

   _admin_menu

   ..instead of the include..

   You you will likely need to globalise the $menu and $submenu vars when using the action hook..
   

   add_action( '_admin_menu' , 'example' );
   function example() {
   global $menu, $submenu;
   ..

   ;)

5. peterjharrison
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   Thanks for your reply.

   When I try and include the menu.php file I get the following error:

   Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /mnt/local/home/pjharrison/peterjharrison.me/wp-admin/menu.php on line 38

   I think it has something to do with the $wp_taxonomies array, any ideas?

   Regards
   Pete

6. Mark / t31os
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   It's because when you include the file, there's no $wp_taxonomies var for it to loop over... where as when the file is usually included that var is present...

   What do you think you should do ? ... it's your code ... i can't tell you how to write it .. ;)

7. peterjharrison
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi

   Thanks for your help.

   I guess I'll have to try and find out what populates the $wp_taxonomies array and see if it will effect what im trying to do if I push it through as blank.

   Regards
   Pete

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