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| author | webchick <webchick@24967.no-reply.drupal.org> | 2011-03-28 08:52:43 -0700 |
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| committer | webchick <webchick@24967.no-reply.drupal.org> | 2011-03-28 08:52:43 -0700 |
| commit | 5b45a85ca7859e23b79cac3616e4cf5ad1b47f4c (patch) | |
| tree | 5dd1c9073595007516ada373803f35e19ce90efb | |
| parent | 1e3714af4dff3a9518074a9856b7428259d1a99d (diff) | |
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Issue #749992 by jhodgdon: menu system / menu module distinction is not obvious to folks new to Drupal.
| -rw-r--r-- | includes/menu.inc | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | modules/menu/menu.module | 8 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/includes/menu.inc b/includes/menu.inc index a3121c739..f4241221d 100644 --- a/includes/menu.inc +++ b/includes/menu.inc @@ -13,7 +13,10 @@ * The Drupal menu system drives both the navigation system from a user * perspective and the callback system that Drupal uses to respond to URLs * passed from the browser. For this reason, a good understanding of the - * menu system is fundamental to the creation of complex modules. + * menu system is fundamental to the creation of complex modules. As a note, + * this is related to, but separate from menu.module, which allows menus + * (which in this context are hierarchical lists of links) to be customized from + * the Drupal administrative interface. * * Drupal's menu system follows a simple hierarchy defined by paths. * Implementations of hook_menu() define menu items and assign them to diff --git a/modules/menu/menu.module b/modules/menu/menu.module index ec41c2f3e..3edf158df 100644 --- a/modules/menu/menu.module +++ b/modules/menu/menu.module @@ -2,7 +2,13 @@ /** * @file - * Allows administrators to customize the site navigation menu. + * Allows administrators to customize the site's navigation menus. + * + * A menu (in this context) is a hierarchical collection of links, generally + * used for navigation. This is not to be confused with the + * @link menu Menu system @endlink of menu.inc and hook_menu(), which defines + * page routing requests for Drupal, and also allows the defined page routing + * URLs to be added to the main site navigation menu. */ /** |