add_menu_page( $page_title,  $menu_title,  $capability,  $menu_slug,  $function = '',  $icon_url = '',  $position = null )

Add a top-level menu page.


Description

This function takes a capability which will be used to determine whether or not a page is included in the menu.

The function which is hooked in to handle the output of the page must check that the user has the required capability as well.


Source

File: wp-admin/includes/plugin.php

function add_menu_page( $page_title, $menu_title, $capability, $menu_slug, $function = '', $icon_url = '', $position = null ) {
	global $menu, $admin_page_hooks, $_registered_pages, $_parent_pages;

	$menu_slug = plugin_basename( $menu_slug );

	$admin_page_hooks[$menu_slug] = sanitize_title( $menu_title );

	$hookname = get_plugin_page_hookname( $menu_slug, '' );

	if ( !empty( $function ) && !empty( $hookname ) && current_user_can( $capability ) )
		add_action( $hookname, $function );

	if ( empty($icon_url) ) {
		$icon_url = 'dashicons-admin-generic';
		$icon_class = 'menu-icon-generic ';
	} else {
		$icon_url = set_url_scheme( $icon_url );
		$icon_class = '';
	}

	$new_menu = array( $menu_title, $capability, $menu_slug, $page_title, 'menu-top ' . $icon_class . $hookname, $hookname, $icon_url );

	if ( null === $position ) {
		$menu[] = $new_menu;
	} elseif ( isset( $menu[ "$position" ] ) ) {
	 	$position = $position + substr( base_convert( md5( $menu_slug . $menu_title ), 16, 10 ) , -5 ) * 0.00001;
		$menu[ "$position" ] = $new_menu;
	} else {
		$menu[ $position ] = $new_menu;
	}

	$_registered_pages[$hookname] = true;

	// No parent as top level
	$_parent_pages[$menu_slug] = false;

	return $hookname;
}