If you have ever needed to bulk generate menu items in Drupal (I used this for theming some drop-downs), here is a snippet to accomplish it. The third parameter is for recursively creating a hierarchy, so be careful with it – you can blow up the menu admin page in a hurry!
This code requires the devel module; the ambitious reader might consider adapting this to patch devel itself.
When you're finished, the generated items can be cleared quickly with DELETE FROM {menu_links} WHERE link_path = 'http://example.com/';
<?php
/**
* Bulk generate menu links.
* @param $count Number of links to generate.
* @param $plid Menu id of the parent item.
* @param $depth Recursion depth; 0 for a single set of menu items.
*/
function menugen($count, $plid = NULL, $depth = 0) {
require_once(drupal_get_path('module', 'devel_generate') . '/devel_generate.inc');
foreach (range(1,$count) as $x) {
$item = array(
'menu_name' => 'primary-links',
'link_path' => 'http://example.com/',
'link_title' => devel_create_greeking(2, TRUE),
);
if (! empty($plid)) {
$item['plid'] = $plid;
}
$mlid = menu_link_save($item);
if($depth != 0) {
menugen($count, $mlid, $depth - 1);
}
}
}