Drupal 7 adding custom menus to pages

Question

I have been developing with Drupal 7 for the past 4 months now, and I can't seem to find a straight answer as to how to add more menus on my pages. I understand the whole system_main_menu and system_secondary_menu, but how in the world can I add more menus to my page if I make a custom menu, let's say I have a footer_social_menu? I just love dynamic menus.

Here's what I am working with right now

function cornmaze_links($variables){
    $html = '<ul>';
foreach($variables['links'] as $link){
    $html .= '<li>'. l($link['title'], $link['href'], $link).'</li>';
}
    $html .= '</ul>';
    return $html;

}

I tried using the THEME_links($vars) function, but that affects ALL of the menus, what if I wanted to add a certain ID to a custom menu? or change the custom menu to use all divs? That's what I don't get. I can't necessarily loop through the menus using the THEME_links() function?

I don't want to put them in a block either, if I don't have to, just to avoid any extra markup that I don't need. I just want to be able to control menus, whether they be system or custom.

Any help, or light shed would be awesome! Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

Try menu block module. It creates your menus as blocks and highly configurable.

Here's the documentation link.