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add_submenu_page › WordPress Function

Since1.5.0
Deprecatedn/a
add_submenu_page ( $parent_slug, $page_title, $menu_title, $capability, $menu_slug, $callback = '', $position = null )
Parameters: (7)
  • (string) $parent_slug The slug name for the parent menu (or the file name of a standard WordPress admin page).
    Required: Yes
  • (string) $page_title The text to be displayed in the title tags of the page when the menu is selected.
    Required: Yes
  • (string) $menu_title The text to be used for the menu.
    Required: Yes
  • (string) $capability The capability required for this menu to be displayed to the user.
    Required: Yes
  • (string) $menu_slug The slug name to refer to this menu by. Should be unique for this menu and only include lowercase alphanumeric, dashes, and underscores characters to be compatible with sanitize_key().
    Required: Yes
  • (callable) $callback Optional. The function to be called to output the content for this page.
    Required: No
    Default: (empty)
  • (int|float) $position Optional. The position in the menu order this item should appear.
    Required: No
    Default: null
Returns:
  • (string|false) The resulting page's hook_suffix, or false if the user does not have the capability required.
Defined at:
Codex:
Change Log:
  • 5.3.0

Adds a submenu page.

This function takes a capability which will be used to determine whether or not a page is included in the menu. The function which is hooked in to handle the output of the page must check that the user has the required capability as well.


Source

function add_submenu_page( $parent_slug, $page_title, $menu_title, $capability, $menu_slug, $callback = '', $position = null ) {
	global $submenu, $menu, $_wp_real_parent_file, $_wp_submenu_nopriv,
		$_registered_pages, $_parent_pages;

	$menu_slug   = plugin_basename( $menu_slug );
	$parent_slug = plugin_basename( $parent_slug );

	if ( isset( $_wp_real_parent_file[ $parent_slug ] ) ) {
		$parent_slug = $_wp_real_parent_file[ $parent_slug ];
	}

	if ( ! current_user_can( $capability ) ) {
		$_wp_submenu_nopriv[ $parent_slug ][ $menu_slug ] = true;
		return false;
	}

	/*
	 * If the parent doesn't already have a submenu, add a link to the parent
	 * as the first item in the submenu. If the submenu file is the same as the
	 * parent file someone is trying to link back to the parent manually. In
	 * this case, don't automatically add a link back to avoid duplication.
	 */
	if ( ! isset( $submenu[ $parent_slug ] ) && $menu_slug !== $parent_slug ) {
		foreach ( (array) $menu as $parent_menu ) {
			if ( $parent_menu[2] === $parent_slug && current_user_can( $parent_menu[1] ) ) {
				$submenu[ $parent_slug ][] = array_slice( $parent_menu, 0, 4 );
			}
		}
	}

	$new_sub_menu = array( $menu_title, $capability, $menu_slug, $page_title );

	if ( null !== $position && ! is_numeric( $position ) ) {
		_doing_it_wrong(
			__FUNCTION__,
			sprintf(
				/* translators: %s: add_submenu_page() */
				__( 'The seventh parameter passed to %s should be numeric representing menu position.' ),
				'<code>add_submenu_page()</code>'
			),
			'5.3.0'
		);
		$position = null;
	}

	if (
		null === $position ||
		( ! isset( $submenu[ $parent_slug ] ) || $position >= count( $submenu[ $parent_slug ] ) )
	) {
		$submenu[ $parent_slug ][] = $new_sub_menu;
	} else {
		// Test for a negative position.
		$position = max( $position, 0 );
		if ( 0 === $position ) {
			// For negative or `0` positions, prepend the submenu.
			array_unshift( $submenu[ $parent_slug ], $new_sub_menu );
		} else {
			$position = absint( $position );
			// Grab all of the items before the insertion point.
			$before_items = array_slice( $submenu[ $parent_slug ], 0, $position, true );
			// Grab all of the items after the insertion point.
			$after_items = array_slice( $submenu[ $parent_slug ], $position, null, true );
			// Add the new item.
			$before_items[] = $new_sub_menu;
			// Merge the items.
			$submenu[ $parent_slug ] = array_merge( $before_items, $after_items );
		}
	}

	// Sort the parent array.
	ksort( $submenu[ $parent_slug ] );

	$hookname = get_plugin_page_hookname( $menu_slug, $parent_slug );
	if ( ! empty( $callback ) && ! empty( $hookname ) ) {
		add_action( $hookname, $callback );
	}

	$_registered_pages[ $hookname ] = true;

	/*
	 * Backward-compatibility for plugins using add_management_page().
	 * See wp-admin/admin.php for redirect from edit.php to tools.php.
	 */
	if ( 'tools.php' === $parent_slug ) {
		$_registered_pages[ get_plugin_page_hookname( $menu_slug, 'edit.php' ) ] = true;
	}

	// No parent as top level.
	$_parent_pages[ $menu_slug ] = $parent_slug;

	return $hookname;
}