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siraxi

06-12-2006, 09:05 PM

Hi

I love the forum jump as set on DigitalPoint Forums (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/). Does anyone have the code for it or could figure out a hack?

Thanks!

bashy

06-12-2006, 09:09 PM

wow...im liking this also, would love to add this to my clutter, does anyone know of the coding for this please....

siraxi

06-12-2006, 10:22 PM

This (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=89502) thread explains that it's not javascript but something internal.

This (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=157456) thread explains it's DHTML.

Here (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=356671), it says:
It's actually a rather complex plug-in that does some preg_replace() stuff. And then to make it even more tricky, moderators can AJAX drag-and-drop threads onto it to move them with one step.

Ramsesx

06-12-2006, 10:35 PM

On this video (http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/dp-forum-moderating.mov) it's looking very cool, think they have stolen the secret vb 5 alpha version. :rolleyes:

WritersBeat

10-06-2006, 02:25 AM

Sorry to bump - but is there any way to... do this? Haha. Maybe not the advanced ajax but... a mod that is similar?

Zachery

10-06-2006, 03:16 AM

Looks like its a manual template edit honestly.

Adrian Schneider

10-06-2006, 03:42 AM

The navbar part would be easy... just some basic PHP / HTML with the forumcache (no extra queries either)... but the moderation part would take some work.

While I like it, I don't think I would want all that extra HTML being on every page.

siraxi

10-25-2006, 01:06 PM

Thanks for the replies.

I managed to find a mod for this and applied it with success on my forum (http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/).

ericgtr

10-25-2006, 01:25 PM

On this video (http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/dp-forum-moderating.mov) it's looking very cool, think they have stolen the secret vb 5 alpha version. :rolleyes:
That has to be one of the slickest mods I've seen for vb yet.

johnstires

11-01-2006, 05:15 PM

ericgtr

11-01-2006, 06:03 PM

See this hack:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=118551&highlight=usercp

You'll have to configure the phrasing to work for Forums and manually add your forums, but it will work just the same as the site you referenced.
That is actually not even close to the mod over at digital point. Have a look at the video, you can tell that the forum list is dynamic and it allows for an ajax drag and drop to move threads around. It's safe to assume there is some complex coding in the background.

johnstires

11-02-2006, 12:16 AM

That is actually not even close to the mod over at digital point. Have a look at the video, you can tell that the forum list is dynamic and it allows for an ajax drag and drop to move threads around. It's safe to assume there is some complex coding in the background.

I thought the original question was about the forumjump in the navbar, not the video, which shows moderation not navigation.

I agree, what I posted is nothing like the video. But isn't the forum jump menu in the navbar just a glorified template of the the hack I posted?

ericgtr

11-02-2006, 12:34 AM

I thought the original question was about the forumjump in the navbar, not the video, which shows moderation not navigation.

I agree, what I posted is nothing like the video. But isn't the forum jump menu in the navbar just a glorified template of the the hack I posted?
Well, it can be if you manually add everything but a dynamic solution would be a much better alternative IMO. That way anytime a forum is added or removed there wouldn't be a template edit.

johnstires

11-02-2006, 02:36 AM

A dynamic hack like this would be awesome. I'm doing in manually right now cuz my boards not too heavily forumed. Plus once it's set up it's not all that difficult to change. I'm diggin' it. I love it when I stumble upon a cool, useful change.:D

ericgtr

11-02-2006, 03:10 AM

This is an interesting mod, I may take a stab at it minus the ajax drag and drop though. ;)

ericgtr

11-02-2006, 06:07 PM

I set one up manually at my site.. took a while and it's tedious but it works. If anyone wants the code (all template) I will post it up but you will have to manually edit in all of your links. Preview is in my sig on my guitarblast site.

ForumDog

11-02-2006, 06:34 PM

The drag-n-drop stuff is actually a good deal simpler than it might appear, I considered doing something similar myself but knocked it on the head given that all the extra work and bloat wouldn't really offer a great deal over what is already a system that works fine. In fact apart from to a couple of moderators it wouldn't add anything at all. Not worth it to me.

The forumjump is very nice though :) much better than the default if you have a lot of forums.

johnstires

11-02-2006, 11:11 PM

I am not a coder at all, but I was wondering how this could be done dynamically.

I pasted $forumbits into the popup menu table and my entire forum showed up in the forum jump. Cool but a little too much info...

How would I go about just showing the title of the forum? $forumbits is calling the forumhome_forumbit_level1_post template which contains the code:

<td class="alt1Active" colspan="2" align="$stylevar[left]" id="f$forum[forumid]">
<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]"><strong>$forum[title]</strong></a>

</td>

If I paste just this code into my template I get only one random forum dynamically created.

Anyone know how to have them all? Or does it require some sort of php modification? Is there a way to change $forumbits to $forumbits_navbar and then have that call some other peice of code?

Bear with me, I have no clue what I'm doing...:confused:

Darat

11-24-2006, 06:16 PM

heynurse

12-02-2006, 04:26 AM

that video with the drag/drop is very cool :) I love seeing more web 2.0 functionality blended with vb

imported_infitech

12-02-2006, 09:52 PM

I thought the original question was about the forumjump in the navbar, not the video, which shows moderation not navigation.

I agree, what I posted is nothing like the video. But isn't the forum jump menu in the navbar just a glorified template of the the hack I posted?
im with you.
is anyone working on making this a mod we can download on vb.org?

category

12-04-2006, 12:44 AM

so anyone gonna release it soon?

davidw

12-04-2006, 01:05 AM

sunnycher

12-04-2006, 01:21 AM

I love yours! Very neat looking!
I'd love for you to do one LOL!!
Love your site too btw :)

If eric doesn't object, I'll release something this week - I've already got something created on my site in the past couple hours. :) No links work yet, but the structure is there. :P

You can see my version at my site (the one in my sig). I like his too (much leaner than mine).

imported_infitech

12-05-2006, 09:48 AM

This is an interesting mod, I may take a stab at it minus the ajax drag and drop though. ;)
u are my hero

If eric doesn't object, I'll release something this week - I've already got something created on my site in the past couple hours. :) No links work yet, but the structure is there. :P

You can see my version at my site (the one in my sig). I like his too (much leaner than mine).I dont see it in the sig

I love yours! Very neat looking!
I'd love for you to do one LOL!!
Love your site too btw :)
Where did you find it?

sunnycher

12-05-2006, 09:55 AM

Go to his website in his signature, http://www.christianboards.org/, click on Forum Jump that is in his nav bar to the right.

Where did you find it?

Darat

12-05-2006, 11:10 AM

My version so far:

ericgtr

12-05-2006, 02:00 PM

If eric doesn't object, I'll release something this week - I've already got something created on my site in the past couple hours. :) No links work yet, but the structure is there. :P

You can see my version at my site (the one in my sig). I like his too (much leaner than mine).
No objections here, I think the more ideas the better :) Mine is at my guitar site in my sig. So far the only difference is that mine spans across the top instead of one line. For example, I have 7 categories and the most forums I have in any cat is also 7 (just happened to work out that way) and added conditions for the officers forums so I could also add them. So I simply made a table 7 columns by 7 rows, then manually added the forums and utitlized the classes. All in all it's pretty easy, just takes some tedious work.

davidw

12-05-2006, 03:27 PM

I've released my version:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=133277

ericgtr

12-05-2006, 05:12 PM

I've released my version:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=133277
Nicely done. :)

Darat

12-05-2006, 06:22 PM

I've done this slightly differently to christianb's, I started by looking at the code from ericgtr's forum and then I adapted it. I wanted a layout that was as compact as possible so I've used a small font and fixed columns.

Place this wherever you want the menu to appear in the standard navbar links section:

<td id="forumindex" class="vbmenu_control_navbar"><a href="/?nojs=1#forumjump">Forum Index</a><script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("forumindex");</script></td>

and this is my menu code, added just below: 

It should be easy to understand and edit for your own uses.

I've in fact moved it into a custom template so it's easier to manage and I just call that template in the navbar template now. I'm also going through and tidying it up a bit more - creating a couple of new styles in the CSS and so on.

<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="forumindex_menu" style="display:none; position:absolute; padding: 0px;">

<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0" STYLE="table-layout:fixed; " WIDTH=600>
<COL WIDTH=120><COL WIDTH=120><COL WIDTH=120><COL WIDTH=120><COL WIDTH=120>
<tr>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td class="thead">Useful Links</td>
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imported_infitech

12-05-2006, 09:46 PM

has anyone seen the deviantart categories.
THAT..... would be quite amazing for VBulletin.

AWJunkies

12-08-2006, 05:28 AM

I see what you mean have full Main cats in the drop down in which those drop down to sub cats within that main cat and on down if it has more. I like that idea MUCH better and looks much cleaner. I will program it right now wont be that hard. The usercp.php file has the same idea on left side bar. Drop downt o a drop down hmm will look clean. Sorry thinking out loud. Will have it done be end of weekend dam busy right now programing other things.

imported_infitech

12-08-2006, 07:52 AM

sunnycher

12-08-2006, 11:11 AM

Ohhh Great idea! Didn't think of that!
Thank you Thank you!

imported_infitech

12-08-2006, 07:07 PM

I know it's a good idea.
I've been trying to get it done as a mod for a long time.

Is anyone actually going to write this and share it with us.
I think MANY would really appreciate it.
I'd put money on it that if we voted on weather it should be a default feature on VBulletin and Photopost that the votes would be a unanimous YES.

i've posted on countless forums about this, but this is the only one i could find.

http://www.photopost.com/forum/showthread.php?t=128756&highlight=deviant

AWJunkies

12-11-2006, 05:13 AM

Sorry guys havent had time to attack this yet. Should take me few hours to have it as a program/plugin. To be honest I probably wont have time to do it till next weekend. BUT I will try real hard to have it out before then. I want this on my site real bad. I just have some other things to finish programing at the moment.

imported_infitech

12-13-2006, 06:45 AM

Anyone have an update on the status of the deviantart forumjump menu?

Darat

12-13-2006, 11:31 AM

Anyone have an update on the status of the deviantart forumjump menu?

Have you looked at incorporating a Tigra menu ? (http://www.javascript-menu.com/) I think it would do everything you want.