How to Update a Menu Item Link In Drupal if You Know The ID?

Easily change a link automatically

Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash

There are occasions when you need to update a link in a menu, but you want to avoid doing it manually, just in case you forget to do it by the time your code gets to the live server.

I’ve seen a lot of examples of creating new menu items programmatically but only a few about editing existing menu items.

This is how you can do it. Replace 3925 with the id of the menu item you want to edit and ”internal:/toolkits” with your url (use “internal:/” just for urls within your site).

Add this code in the *.install file of your custom module:

use Drupal\menu_link_content\Entity\MenuLinkContent;
/**
 * Update Toolkits menu item link.
 * @param $sandbox
 * @throws \Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityStorageException
 */
function custom_module_update_8001(&$sandbox) {
  $menu_link = MenuLinkContent::load(3925);
  $menu_link->link = array('uri' => 'internal:/toolkits');
  $menu_link->save();
}

👉 Find out more about me here: https://sergioguardiola.net 🔥