Check if add_menu_page exists or not

I’m working on a plugin that I have to release in parts.

The problem is, if there is a menu in the page then add the new plugin to the 2nd or next submenu else add a new menu and then add the plugin to 1st submenu.

My questions:

1. How to check that there exists a menu?
2. If I’m coding a reusable function , that will go with every plugin then that causes conflict option.
3. I don’t know the order of the plugin release.

add_menu_page(
    'Page Title',
    'Top Menu Title',
    'manage_options',
    'my_unique_slug',
    'my_magic_function'
);
add_submenu_page(
    'my_unique_slug',
    'page title',
    'submenu title',
    'manage_options',
    'my_submenu_slug',
    'my_magic_function_of_submenu'
);

Answers:

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Method 1

You can use the fourth parameter of add_menu_page(), the my_unique_slug, to check if the page exists:

if ( empty ( $GLOBALS['admin_page_hooks']['my_unique_slug'] ) )
    add_menu_page(
        'Page Title',
        'Top Menu Title',
        'manage_options',
        'my_unique_slug',
        'my_magic_function'
    );

$GLOBALS['admin_page_hooks'] is the list of registered pages.

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