Drupal Secondary Links Front Page Issue

Question

I'm trying to get my secondary links (which are using primary links as the source, so the children of the primary links) to display as a dropdown on every page. However, since (im guessing) there is no active trail on the front page, the secondary links aren't displayed.

How do I set them so that I can display the secondary links on the front page?

Answer 1

You can use the "theme" function to display the secondary links into your front page:

 print theme('links', $secondary_links, array('class' => 'links secondary-links'));

And to create the dropdown you can overwrite the "theme_links" function into your template.php file: http://api.drupal.org/api/function/theme_links

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

The Menu block module will do what you're describing and a whole lot more.

Answer 3

If you want to display secondary links only on frontpage, don't forget to add an if statement such as:

if ($is_front) {
    print theme('links',$secondary_links,array('class' => 'class-for-secondary-links'));
}

Or just use custom template for frontpage.