Mini navbar at bottom of thread

[TheEDIGuy]

Version 1.0, 01/27/04 - Written for RC3

My users wanted a navbar at the bottom of each thread, so they don't have to scroll back to the top of a page to navigate the site. Rather than put the large navbar, with all of the buttons and the userinfo box included, I created a stripped-down version of it (see image below of what it looks like on my site).

Just follow the simple instructions in the attached text file. There is 1 file edit, 1 new template, and 1 template edit.

You may PM me or post here for support if something's gone wrong, but it is currently working on my site.

[Drile]

Nice.

I did this myself on vB2, and as soon as I upgrade I will "install" this.

Thanks!

[NTLDR]

I don't see any point in hacking this in since all you need to do is add the HTML directly to the SHOWTHREAD template.

[TheEDIGuy]

Ah, you probably could. I'm certainly no expert in hacking, this is just how I did it. It makes my code nice and clean, and much easier to move around if I need it moved somewhere else.

[StarBuG]

Ah, you probably could. I'm certainly no expert in hacking, this is just how I did it. It makes my code nice and clean, and much easier to move around if I need it moved somewhere else.
* StarBuG clicks install

Nice and easy to install no problems at all ;)

Thx

StarBuG

[jaliam]

Cool hack! I love it.

[AN-net]

no offense but this is easily done by using the nav bar bits alrdy in the templates but cool hack though;)

[TheEDIGuy]

I take no offense at all. I needed a way to do this, and this was the easiest way I found, and it works well. And now the lower navbit is in a separate template, so I can modify it extremely easily.

I'm sure there are different ways to accomplish the same thing. I'm just helping out those who need a way to do it and want to follow this example.

[codemonkey]

Thats a very good idea, but it would be better if this will be shown on the forumdisplay.php as well.

[CdaKnight]

I'm actually having a problem. Its probably I did something retarded. I've been trying to do something like this for a while, and it keeps showing up incorrectly.

It will show the forum back link (javascript.history-1 business), then the board title, then nothing is in the next level. I hvae it placed in a templated called navbar2, and copied the code directly from the text file. Any clues?

[TheEDIGuy]

If you have a template named "navbar2", then you aren't following my instructions, and I can't be of much help.

[CdaKnight]

I assumed one empty, custom template was the same as any other...

However, I went back and made -another- template called navbar_bottom, and I still have the problem as stated above.

[TheEDIGuy]

PM me the contents of your navbar_bottom template, because there's something wrong with it.

[Stray]

Simple but nice, very clean.

/me clicks install

[FWT]

Nevermind

[admiralapril]

Thanks so much. I put the HTML code directly into the showthread template and it works great. I've been wanting to do this for a long time! :classic:

[Sharpsh00ter]

cool ;)

installed without probs. thx.

cya
s.

[DenzoForums]

where in the show threads template does it go?

this is the html right?
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="alt1" width="100%">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr valign="bottom">
<td><a href="#" onclick="history.back(1)"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/navbits_start.gif" alt="$vbphrase[go_back]" border="0" /></a>&nbsp;</td>
<td><span class="navbar"><a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php?$session[sessionurl]">$vboptions[bbtitle]</a></span> $navbits[breadcrumb]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="navbar" style="font-size:10pt; padding-top:1px" colspan="2"><a href="$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>
</tr>
</table>

thanks
dave

[DenzoForums]

where in the show threads template does it go?

this is the html right?


thanks
dave

Never mind, I got it..
Cool! I like it..

www.denzoforums.com

[BeatYou]

Awesome, exactly what I needed for those looooong threads.

[jamesglewisf]

no offense but this is easily done by using the nav bar bits alrdy in the templates but cool hack though;)How can this be done in the templates. I tried but did not succeed. I'm kind of a novice on 3.0.

[weitalia]

Fantastic amazing hack man ;) very useful thanx so much!!!
I just change in the the navbar_bottom template the very last 4 rows of code:

</tr>
</table>
</tr>
</table>

with

</tr>
</table>
<td class="alt2" width="20%">
$forumjump
</td>
</tr>
</table>


Great job mister!!

;)

[tony adams]

excellent, never mind it there are other ways this does just what my members want

thanks

[Cryo]

Awesome, this is EXACTLY what I was looking for. I prefer the template approach too. ;)

* Cryo clicks install!

[Erwin]

For just template mods,

In SHOWTHREAD and FORUMDISPLAY templates,

Find:

$forumjump


ABOVE, ADD:


<span class="navbar"><a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php?$session[sessionurl]">$vboptions[bbtitle]</a></span> $navbits[breadcrumb]


Just as good. ;)

[CSS59]

In the FORUMHOME
I would like to move the "Navigation Bar" (including the log in boxes) from the top ---> to the bottom combined with "Whats Going On?"

I want it to be included in the "Whats Going On" on the top of "Currently Active Users"

How Can I do that? The navbar line is all the way at the bottom of the code, but I dont know how to include it with the "whats going on?" Any ideas?

[fly]

For just template mods,

In SHOWTHREAD and FORUMDISPLAY templates,

Find:

$forumjump


ABOVE, ADD:


<span class="navbar"><a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php?$session[sessionurl]">$vboptions[bbtitle]</a></span> $navbits[breadcrumb]


Just as good. ;)

Any ideas why this only shows up for me in IE and not Firefox? Anyone got this installed on their site that I can look at from FF, to see if its just my site?

edit: And yes, the normal one works fine...

[Borgs8472]

I added this to my vbadvanced portal too.

portal index.php (whatever you've call it)

find
print_portal_output($home);

under add:

eval('$navbar_bottom = "' . fetch_template('navbar_bottom') . '";');

Done!

[yoyoyoyo]

Any ideas why this only shows up for me in IE and not Firefox? Anyone got this installed on their site that I can look at from FF, to see if its just my site?

edit: And yes, the normal one works fine...same here... very odd.

[MorrisMcD]

Excellent and simple hack...

:install:

This makes me wonder how easy it might be to have a 'New Posts' link below as well.. Could this be easily implemented into this same hack? As the admin, I pretty much read everything and scrolling up everytime to click new posts could be simplified with somethin like that.

[Dax IX]

For some reason this isn't working for me on 3.0.7. :(

The navbar_bottom shows up, but it only shows a link to the forum home, not the rest of the breadcrumb links.

[Dax IX]

Never mind.

[ztempuser]

how i get this to work with vbullitin 3.5.1?

[TheEDIGuy]

Someone has done something similar in 3.5.1 already. It's here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=98485).