How to create multilingual menu link programmatically in Drupal 7 - menu

Question

I'm trying to create the menu link programmatically. But its not working where source language is other than english. Here is my code.
$language_list = language_list();
foreach ($language_list as $language_code => $language_object) {
$menu_item = array(
'link_title' => t('Fruit'),
'menu_name' => 'menu-main-footer',
'customized' => 1,
'link_path' => $custom_path,
'language' => $language_code,
'weight' => 30,
);
menu_link_save($menu_item);
}
Any one have some idea on this?

Answer 1

I changed my code. And it work for me.
// Create menu translation set.
$menu_translation_set = i18n_translation_set_create('menu_link');
// Create translated menu link for all site enable language.
$language_list = language_list();
foreach ($language_list as $language_code => $language_object) {
// Add Fruit link in menu-main-footer.
// 'change-fruit' is node title.
$fruit_path = drupal_get_normal_path('change-fruit', $language_code);
if (!menu_link_get_preferred($fruit_path, 'menu-main-footer')) {
$menu_item = array(
'link_title' => t('fruit'),
'menu_name' => 'menu-main-footer',
'customized' => 1,
'link_path' => $fruit_path,
'language' => $language_code,
'weight' => 30,
'i18n_tsid' => $menu_translation_set->tsid,
);
menu_link_save($menu_item);
$menu_translation_set->add_item($menu_item, $language_code);
$menu_translation_set->save();
}
}
May be helpful to other.

Answer 2

I had to migrate an old menu to a new one with its localized translations so here is what I did :
$old_name = 'menu-old';
$new_name = 'menu-new';
$old_menu = menu_load($old_name);
if(isset($old_menu)){
$old_mlids = db_query("SELECT mlid from {menu_links} WHERE menu_name=:menu_name", array(':menu_name' => $old_name))->fetchAll();
if(!empty($old_mlids)){
// Clean existing items in new menu.
$new_mlids = db_query("SELECT mlid from {menu_links} WHERE menu_name=:menu_name", array(':menu_name' => $new_name))->fetchAll();
if(!empty($new_mlids)){
foreach($new_mlids as $record){
menu_link_delete($record->mlid);
}
}
// Copy old to new menu.
foreach($old_mlids as $record){
$old_menu_item = menu_link_load($record->mlid);
$new_menu_item_config = array(
'link_title' => $old_menu_item['link_title'],
'link_path' => $old_menu_item['link_path'],
'menu_name' => $new_name,
'customized' => 1,
'weight' => $old_menu_item['weight'],
'expanded' => $old_menu_item['expanded'],
'options' => $old_menu_item['options'],
);
$new_menu_item = $new_menu_item_config;
menu_link_save($new_menu_item);
// Migrate translations.
$languages = language_list('enabled')[1];
foreach($languages as $lang_code => $language_object){
if ($lang_code == language_default('language')) {
continue;
}
$translation_value = i18n_string_translate('menu:item:'.$old_menu_item['mlid'].':title', $old_menu_item['link_title'], array('langcode' => $lang_code));
if($translation_value != $old_menu_item['link_title']){
i18n_string_translation_update('menu:item:'.$new_menu_item['mlid'].':title', $translation_value, $lang_code, $old_menu_item['link_title']);
}
}
}
}
// Delete old menu.
menu_delete(array('menu_name' => $old_name));
}