Dynamic language links from menu?

Kevin

5/31/23, 7:24 PM

I am trying to find a way to do the following:

Add languages to Drupal 9 menu items
Translate content/menu links
Provide (from the Main Navigation) a list of languages the current page is translated in

I was able to complete the first two, but I cannot see how to get a menu to list links that output the available language options for the current entity. I see that there is a Language Switcher block from core, but is there a way to make this appear baked into a Drupal menu itself?

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Clive

5/31/23, 8:07 PM

I don't think this has been fully solved in core yet, there are modules to help like https://www.drupal.org/project/menu_block_current_language, https://www.drupal.org/project/menu_manipulator, https://www.drupal.org/project/menu_multilingual

Kevin

5/31/23, 9:02 PM

Hmmm... there must be a way to mimic this. I'll take a look around

4uk4

6/1/23, 7:25 AM

For a code solution you would need a dynamic menu link plugin pointing at the current node derived for each language. Like this example for local tasks https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/292739/how-to-get-links-of-translated-node-edit-page-in-the-secondary-tabs

Kevin

6/2/23, 9:13 PM

I see - that would work even if its not a local task? Like how would you get it appended to "Main Navigation"?

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4uk4

6/3/23, 10:18 AM

You put the static infos in *.links.menu.yml where you also define dynamic menu link plugins, which provide the infos you can't put in a static yml. And the deriver to produce a plugin for each language. The local task example was just an example for the translation stuff.

A working static example:

mymodule.links.menu.yml

mymodule.language.top:
  title: 'EN'
  menu_name: main
  route_name: '<none>'
  expanded: true
  # Plugin class to override the title dynamically:
  # class: Drupal\mymodule\Plugin\Menu\TranslatedNodeTop
mymodule.language.item:
  title: 'Node 8 spanish'
  parent: mymodule.language.top
  route_name: entity.node.canonical
  route_parameters: { node: '8' }
  menu_name: main
  options:
    attributes:
      class:
        - foo-class
        - bar-class
  # deriver for installed languages
  deriver: Drupal\mymodule\Plugin\Derivative\TranslatedNodeTabDeriver
  # Plugin class extending MenuLinkDefault overriding static properties dynamically,
  # the route parameter from the current route match, the language from the deriver
  # the title from both and link attributes added for the current language:
  # class: Drupal\mymodule\Plugin\Menu\TranslatedNodeItem

You need to add the two dynamic plugins extending MenuLinkDefault. I've recycled the TranslatedNodeTabDeriver from How to get links of translated node edit page in the secondary tabs.