Additional navbar at bottom of forumdisplay [Archive]

Spenser

04-15-2006, 07:24 PM

Hi!

I tried to add another navbar at the bottom of each page to ease navigation to higher-level forums.
So I copied the navbar-template and added a new one "navbar2" that is all the same as navbar. Finally I removed the login-stuff and navigation-stuff and so reduced it to the level I want.
Unfortunately there are no links shown (iirc it's the breadcrump-stuff).
Please have a look at the bottom of http://forum.computerbetrug.de/forumdisplay.php?f=15
There you will see what I mean.
It just seems as if the variables in the template are not parsed.

Please help me to solve this problem.

Dexter_kcd

04-19-2006, 06:31 AM

This is how I do it.

To place a navbar at the bottom of forums:

- Open FORUMDISPLAY template.
- Find:



</form>
<br />
BELOW THAT ADD:


<br />
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="alt1" width="100%">
<if condition="is_array($navbits)">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr valign="bottom">
<td><a href="#" onclick="history.back(1)"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/navbits_start.gif" alt="$vbphrase[go_back]" border="0" /></a></td>
<td> </td>
<td width="100%"><span class="navbar"><a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php?$session[sessionurl]" accesskey="1">$vboptions[bbtitle]</a></span> $navbits[breadcrumb]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="navbar" style="font-size:10pt; padding-top:1px" colspan="3"><a href="$scriptpath"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/navbits_finallink.gif" alt="$vbphrase[reload_this_page]" border="0" /></a> <strong>$navbits[lastelement]</strong></td>
</tr>
</table>
<else />
<div class="navbar" style="font-size:10pt"><a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php?$session[sessionurl]" accesskey="1"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/navbits_start.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a> <strong>$vboptions[bbtitle]</strong></div>
</if>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />


Save template.

To place a navbar at the bottom of threads:

- Open SHOWTHREAD template.
- Find:



BELOW THAT ADD: (Same code as above)

Save template.

There is also a nice little plugin here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=98485) to do something similar, it creates a new template on import of the product through the control panel, then gives you a choice of inserting a full navbar in its' own table row like this does, or as a mini-navbar between the New Reply button and the Moderation dropdown. That plugin is only written to do navbars at the bottom of a thread, but you could easily insert it at the bottom of a forum at the same location in the FORUMDISPLAY template I use above.

The only thing I don't like about the Mini-navbar plugin is that the navbar stops at the forum level, and does not show the actual thread you are in like the main navbar does. The code I listed above will show the full location including current thread, just like the top navbar does.

Cheers,

Dexter...