Explanation of Top Menu Link

I am trying to learn more about Dolphin.  In a top menu link I see the following (name replaces the name of the module to be generic).

modules/?r=name/view/|modules/?r=name/edit/|forum/name/|modules/?r=name/embed/

Can someone explain this to me please.

No one?

Nope. And i am not sure anyone can answer it.

I don't use links like that in any of my modules. I believe you will only find boonex modules doing that. It's not documented so i don't think any developers know unless someone managed to figure it out.

There are a lot of things in dolphin i still don't know. To much of it is undocumented.

It's to control the displaying of the submenu in the module. For example, try one of those links (note the end /). Then try again with that entry removed from the menu item. The main navigation menu link will no longer be selected and the submenu will be missing.

That's the best way I can describe its function.

I will have to experiment with that a bit. It could come in handy.

It just takes the urls and convert it into the correct format. Either pretty one if you have it enabled OR non pretty one and saves it in cache file.

and it does this for 1st part of the url only. " | " is just the separator here.

modules/?r=name/view/|modules/?r=name/edit/|forum/name/|modules/?r=name/embed/

will be changed to

m/name/view/|modules/?r=name/edit/|forum/name/|modules/?r=name/embed/

if you have permalink enabled of course, otherwise its left like that. Other parts are saved too. To match against the page you're viewing and highlight that on menu, just what Nathon said^.

This is what i observed/guessed.