Drupal 7 - Add two menu items with the same path but different query string

What I did is add the redirect module.

Then I created custom redirects for those menu items, e.g. "node/add/alert/kind/regular" goes to "node/add/alert?kind=regular".

No need for custom hook_menu programming. It worked! But why doesn't drupal provide it work out of the box???

Another option would have been to make a custom Block in Drupal with your 2 links as simply an HTML list.

So far as I know /node/add/alert is 1 page in Drupal, Pylons, Joomla whatever .... its 1 page path to Apache or Nginx. The querystring is simply key-value pairs of arguments you are passing to the page.

The default Menu system in drupal doesnt allow for a single page to exist in more than 1 spot of your site (see NodeSymlink for a module that allows an alias of a page to live in different places of your site, but only 1 master location for the content).

I believe what you're seeing here is an example of drupal's 1 piece of content, lives only 1 place in drupal; so disallow multiple links to the same thing for SEO purposes.

Not quite with Drupal, but you can add a bit of jquery to target the menu item id.

In your menu item, set the path to "" as a placeholder.

Then add this bit of jquery:

$("a#specificLink1").attr('href','/node/add/alert?kind=regular'); $("a#specificLink2").attr('href','/node/add/alert?kind= news');