Get first menu item of custom menu

Ok, real stupid while writing this post I was thinking about first looping of the menu items and then storing them in an array for later use. With the example on the following page I can manage that:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_nav_menu_items

// Get the nav menu based on $menu_name (same as ‘theme_location’ or ‘menu’ arg to wp_nav_menu)
// This code based on wp_nav_menu’s code to get Menu ID from menu slug

$menu_name="custom_menu_slug";

if ( ( $locations = get_nav_menu_locations() ) && isset( $locations[ $menu_name ] ) ) {
$menu = wp_get_nav_menu_object( $locations[ $menu_name ] );

$menu_items = wp_get_nav_menu_items($menu->term_id);

$menu_list="<ul id="menu-" . $menu_name . '">';

foreach ( (array) $menu_items as $key => $menu_item ) {
    $title = $menu_item->title;
    $url = $menu_item->url;
    $menu_list .= '<li><a href="' . $url . '">' . $title . '</a></li>';
}
$menu_list .= '</ul>';
} else {
$menu_list="<ul><li>Menu "" . $menu_name . '" not defined.</li></ul>';
}
// $menu_list now ready to output
echo $menu_list

The code above just needs some adapting but it will do! 🙂