allow themes to mess with the navbar contents without a custom template. It's done as a callback using a transient plugin hook.

For instance to get rid of the notifications link:

insert_hook('nav','strip_notify');

function strip_notify($a,&$b) {
    unset($b['nav']['notifications']);
}

3 files changed, 42 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/boot.php b/boot.php
index 53d756e93..dc9021745 100755
--- a/boot.php
+++ b/boot.php
@@ -2459,6 +2459,8 @@ function construct_page(&$a) {
  	 * Build the page - now that we have all the components
  	 */
 
+	require_once(theme_include('theme_init.php'));
+
 	$installing = false;
 
 	if($a->module == 'setup')
@@ -2473,7 +2475,6 @@ function construct_page(&$a) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	require_once(theme_include('theme_init.php'));
 
 	if(($p = theme_include(current_theme() . '.js')) != '')
 		head_add_js($p);
diff --git a/include/nav.php b/include/nav.php
index 51c1cc583..56644f6fd 100644
--- a/include/nav.php
+++ b/include/nav.php
@@ -201,16 +201,19 @@ EOT;
 	if($banner === false) 
 		$banner = 'red';
 
+	$x = array('nav' => $nav, 'usermenu' => $userinfo );
+	call_hooks('nav', $x);
+
 	$tpl = get_markup_template('nav.tpl');
 
 	$a->page['nav'] .= replace_macros($tpl, array(
         '$baseurl' => $a->get_baseurl(),
 		'$langselector' => ((get_config('system','select_language')) ? lang_selector() : ''),
 		'$sitelocation' => $sitelocation,
-		'$nav' => $nav,
+		'$nav' => $x['nav'],
 		'$banner' =>  $banner,
 		'$emptynotifications' => t('Nothing new here'),
-		'$userinfo' => $userinfo,
+		'$userinfo' => $x['usermenu'],
 		'$localuser' => local_user(),
 		'$sel' => 	$a->nav_sel,
 		'$apps' => $a->get_apps(),
diff --git a/include/plugin.php b/include/plugin.php
index d90434b3a..fd58fb7dd 100755
--- a/include/plugin.php
+++ b/include/plugin.php
@@ -181,12 +181,14 @@ function unregister_hook($hook,$file,$function) {
 //
 // It might not be obvious but themes can manually add hooks to the $a->hooks
 // array in their theme_init() and use this to customise the app behaviour.  
+// UPDATE: use insert_hook($hookname,$function_name) to do this
 //
 
 
 function load_hooks() {
 	$a = get_app();
-	$a->hooks = array();
+	if(! is_array($a->hooks))
+		$a->hooks = array();
 	$r = q("SELECT * FROM hook WHERE true ORDER BY priority DESC");
 	if($r) {
 		foreach($r as $rr) {
@@ -197,6 +199,36 @@ function load_hooks() {
 	}
 }
 
+/**
+ *
+ * @function insert_hook($hook,$fn)
+ *
+ * Insert a short-lived hook into the running page request. 
+ * Hooks are normally persistent so that they can be called 
+ * across asynchronous processes such as delivery and poll
+ * processes.
+ *
+ * insert_hook lets you attach a hook callback immediately
+ * which will not persist beyond the life of this page request
+ * or the current process. 
+ *
+ * @param string $hook;
+ *     name of hook to attach callback
+ * @param string $fn;
+ *     function name of callback handler
+ *
+ */ 
+
+function insert_hook($hook,$fn) {
+	$a = get_app();
+	if(! is_array($a->hooks))
+		$a->hooks = array();
+	if(! array_key_exists($hook,$a->hooks))
+		$a->hooks[$hook] = array();
+	$a->hooks[$hook][] = array('',$fn);
+}
+	
+
 
 
 function call_hooks($name, &$data = null) {
@@ -204,7 +236,8 @@ function call_hooks($name, &$data = null) {
 
 	if((is_array($a->hooks)) && (array_key_exists($name,$a->hooks))) {
 		foreach($a->hooks[$name] as $hook) {
-			@include_once($hook[0]);
+			if($hook[0])
+				@include_once($hook[0]);
 			if(function_exists($hook[1])) {
 				$func = $hook[1];
 				$func($a,$data);