Drupal 7 Module Development

Working with Content
'access arguments' => array('create artworks'),
'weight' => 1,
'menu_name' => 'management',
'file' => 'artwork.pages.inc',
);
foreach (artwork_types() as $type) {
$type_url_str = str_replace('_', '-', $type->type);
$items['artwork/add/' . $type_url_str] = array(
'title' => $type->name,
'title callback' => 'check_plain',
'page callback' => 'artwork_add',
'page arguments' => array(2),
'access arguments' => array('create artwork'),
'description' => $type->description,
);
}
// ...
return $items;
}
The first menu item creates an index page of artwork types for us to be able to create
artwork types. We then loop over all available artwork types and create a menu
item for each, converting underscores in each artwork type into dashes. Each menu
item's title is the name of the artwork type, but to be safe we run it through the
check_plain() function. check_plain() will take whatever is specified in the title
and escape any and all HTML in it, making it safe to use as the page title. That's
always necessary when displaying a user-generated string as a page title to avoid
both security risks and potentially broken pages.
The listing page is fairly simple, but does show a nice feature of the menu system.
The following is an example:
function artwork_add_page() {
$item = menu_get_item();
$links = system_admin_menu_block($item);
foreach ($links as $link) {
$items[] = l($link['title'], $link['href'],
$item['localized_options'])
. ': ' . filter_xss_admin($link['description']);
}
return theme('item_list', array('items' => $items));
}
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