[wp-hackers] Real Menu/Submenu Hooks (patch)

[Ryan Boren]

On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 12:37 -0500, Matt Mullenweg wrote:
> Robert Deaton wrote:
> > I'm not sure if I quite understood what you meant. You do get to
> > specify under which parent submenu's go, but right now choosing where
> > exactly in the menu or submenu's you want it is unsupported, since it
> > would require a ton of tweaking and in my opinion is rather
> > unneccessary.
> 
> Well the point of putting this into a function would be to allow people 
> to, say, put a menu item in between Users and Options without the 
> possibility of conflict with another plugin trying to go in the exact same 
> spot.
> 
> > Also, you could be right about allowing people to hook into the main
> > admin menu, but submenus at least should be supported in my opinion,
> > that way you can speicify plugin option pages.
> 
> Which is currently possible
> 
> $submenu['plugins.php'][] = array('My Plugin', 5, 'my-plugin.php');
> 
> It would be a little silly to have a function to do just that.

I prefer a function because it abstracts the data structure.  If we get
rid of or reorganize $submenu, plugins won't be affected.  Plus, a
function looks purtier.

Ryan

>  However 
> Ryan's suggestion is still valid because it is possible (and likely) that, 
> for example, the first item under Options won't be options-general.php 
> forever, so if you tried to put something into the options submenu it 
> would disappear.
>