wp_nav_menu SHORTHAND? SYNTAX?

It’s just another way of coding the attributes for wp_nav_menu. You could equally write it as:

$args ' => ' array(
	'sort_column' => 'menu_order',
	'menu_location' => 'main-menu',
	'container_id' => 'nav',
	'menu_class' => 'sf-menu'
);
wp_nav_menu( $args );

Is that more like the examples you’ve seen?

Thank you for your prompt response but can you extend further? I can easily understand your example but I want to understand what is happening here as well: “sort_column=menu_order&menu_location=main-menu&container_id…”

I can’t seem to find the relationship! what is “=” and what is “&” doing in this case?

If you have a link to a tutorial, i would pretty much appreciate it.

Key value pairs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute-value_pair
Query String: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string
Associative arrays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative_array

“sort_column=menu_order&menu_location=main-menu&container_id…” is a query string part with a series of key value pairs
Esmi’s PHP array is the same set of key value pairs in an associative array

Thank you tcbarrett!!!

So this is a query string!

field1=value1&field2=value2&field3=value3…

“The series of pairs is separated by the ampersand, ‘&’ or semicolon, ‘;’.” from wiki