The best way to use VBA Modules is to bypass the vB template system and just echo the data out within the content file itself.. (just like the recent threads example).. Im sure you will figure it out just fine. my PM box is open if you have questions :cool:

Bobster,
I would like to know, what is the best way to use pagination code in tab for displaying information in pages within the same tab.

Thanks

I have yet to do anything with pagination.... I know a few members over at vborg have mentioned working on it, but I have not heard from them lately.

This looks like a great mod and i seem pretty silly asking this as everyone else has done just fine installing it.

Im stuck on step 2 lol, everything else i can do.

When it sais modify css file which file am i modifying? The ajaxtabs.css?

if so what do i modify as i cant see anything that would need changing.

Sorry for being so thick but i really want to get this working.

The only silly question is the one not asked lol ;)

yes, the file with the extention .css is the one that is being refered to in step #2 ... (ajaxtabs.css)

Well, in step 2, the only thing to modify in the .CSS file would be the paths to any images .. right now they are just the imagename .. you will find them after url (imagename.gif) .. you will need to put the full path in those.. ie url (forums/ajaxtabs/imagename.gif)

Hope that makes sense?

Thank you for a quick reply.

Il take another look at it now and see if i can get it working.

Thank you very much

No Problem :cool: Please click installed when you have time (and have it working) :D

Hi

I know its not much to go on but has anybody got any idea whats gone wrong

http://www.cashloopholes.co.uk/cmps_index.php

Iv followed it as best as i can but iv obviously gone wrong somewhere

Well, for one, Tab 1 is not configured correctly.... its set to the default DOMAIN.COM that I put in the instructions.. point it to your domain and tab 1 will work.

You will need to increase the height of the DIV (in the template) so that the content does not overlap... you will also need to edit the .css file and change the width settings. You can change all those values from ###px to 100% and then set static heights or widths later..

Its working, its just a matter of making some adjustments....

ALSO: I just seen that you need to edit the content php files and change the URLS to match your site as well......

You are close, its just a matter of some tweaking and things will start to shape up.

Thank you for your replies they are very much appreciated.

Its getting late now so il have a play with it in the morning and see if i can get it working.

Thanks again.

Yer welcome... I will check back tomorrow and see if you need any help :cool:

how is this supposed to work with vb forums? all the functions are alien to me! and how does it fit in with the templates?

thanks in advance

This "how to" is written for use with vbadvanced. However, this can be used within vbulletin itself with a little tweaking to the install instructions. For example, instead of the step for creating a template Module... that can be replicated in vb by creating a custom template and integrating that template within an existing page or a custom page.

Im actually surprised that nobody has done this yet.. well, I have, but I mean the community as a whole lol.. 3.7 I see finally has some tabs in the Profile, but still not anywhere else on the forums..

ok, so could you provide a step by step instruction list for vb then please!

I'll think about it. Got some other things going on right now. If anyone else wants to do it, they have my permission to do so..

I followed all the steps, but it's not showing any content... When I click on a tab, I "Requesting Content" but nothing displays... Just a plain white screen. Any ideas???

sounds like its not finding the content files.. double check ALL and ANY paths to make sure that everything is pointing to the correct files .. makes sure the path to the ajaxtabs.js is correct as well. The most common thing when it just sits and displays "requesting Content" is that is can not find the content file that you are telling it to load.

when i create a separate template, what do i put in it, and how do i link to it from the other main forumdisplay template?

bobster,
I am trying to put javascript in php file for expand collapse. I want description field read more, when user click on Read more.. link whole description field should display.
I included onclick event in echo statement for link. but nothing happens.
I would like to know, weather expand/collapse works in ajax tabs onclick event for link.

Thanks

You CAN use additional Javascript, but there is a trick to it (where you include it).. I'll have to dig through my notes (or you can check on dynamic drive if you don't want to wait)... Also, check to make sure the IDs for the expand contract part are not conflicting with anything else that might be on the entire page itself.... that will cause the expand/contract to not work as well.. if it uses IDs, change then to some high number like 8749 lol (hope that made sense)

Curious, is this what vbulletin.com is using on its member.php pages?

I doubt it.. they probably are using YUI or wrote their own custom version.. Im sure the base code is almost the same tho and the basic functionality is.

No doubt they were inspired ;) hopefully if they were they owned up to it. Either that or this mod was inspired by 3.7 if it was out back then ... beats me I actually hadnt noticed a 3.7 site until I clicked on a member profile eariler and thought wow this sorta looks neat. LOL!

Na, this mod was inspired by many non vb portals (Yahoo, ESPN, NFL.com etc) .. I've been doing tabbed stuff outside of vB for years and just felt like it was something that was missing with vbadvanced, so I wrote up a mod for it. I've got some vb specific stuff that I have not released yet like Tabbed Forum Home (example bbwforums.net) and the Whos on Line section broke out into Tabs with Paul M's stuff as well) saves a lot of space on the main forums page ;)

Bobster,
As you suggested, I looked at dynamicdrive code and using and I need your help for the error I am getting. When i call onclick event in echo statement in php page. I am getting follwing error

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in C:\Program Files\EasyPHP 2.0b1\www\upload\tabexternal5.php on line 71

The line where I am getting error is
echo'<input type="button" onclick="javascript:return toggleMe('para1');" value="Toggle">';

echo '<div id="para1">
Decription here....
</div>';

When I change to double quotes like 'para1' to "para1" and also tried with '.para1.'
onclick="javascript:return toggleMe("para1");" value="Toggle">'; - no errors but nothing is happening when I click on toggle button.actually it should expand/collapse.
Javascript:
<script type="text/javascript">
function toggleMe(a){
var e=document.getElementById(a);
if(!e)return true;
if(e.style.display=="none"){
e.style.display="block"
}
else{
e.style.display="none"
}
return true;
}
</script>

Please help me with this echo statement javascript onclick.

Thanks for your reply

For those of you that have been wanting to display Post Icons and or limit the thread title character limit for the recent threads content file within a tab, check out the attached file.

PLEASE NOTE: all paths in this file are assumed that you have your forums installed in {forums} folder off the root ie /forums/showthread.php so if you have a different set up, just edit those lines to the correct path and everything will work as it should.

LINES OF CODE TO EDIT FOR YOUR PERSONAL NEEDS:

Line 46: Change 30 to the cut of length you wish.


Line 68: Change this to pull threads from which ever forums you desire.. you can edit/add/or delete ..


Line 72: Change the number to display the amount of threads you wish.


Lines 156-180: You MAY have to change the paths on all the href's .. Change to match your individual forums setup.

Hey Ready, can you zip up the entire file and anything else that goes along with it so I can play with it on my dev server? those ' around para1 are causing that error by the way..

anyway, if you can do that.. just PM me and I will give you my email addy so that you can send the file.

Layout question. I've got tabs working, I've added my forum CSS to the top of ajaxtabs.css and my testtabs.php page has the same theme as my forum now. First, where would I change the CSS (I'm using "indentmenu") to move the tab menu to the top?

Then, I have another custom PHP file, with a custom template. The PHP file loads a bunch of nested tables, theads, tcats, collapsing trs and tds, into strings, and then the template displays certain strings depending on the usergroup of the person looking at the page. I would like to replace some of the nested collapsing stuff with tabs like these. Should I just move the ajaxtabs template into the custom PHP file where I need tab boxes? Can I place dynamic content (loaded from MySQL) into the tab boxes, rather than loading a file?

The Tab menu for the Indentmenu CSS SHOULD be on the top (unless you didn't use the template formatting for the Indentmenu as shown in Post 2 of this thread). The template layout is different for each of the 3 provided CSS... Sounds like you just changed the name of the CSS in the DIV on the template that is arranged for the Modern Bricks CSS.. just take a quick look at post 2 and make sure that the template is formatted correctly for use with the Indentmenu CSS..

Ya know.... what I think would work better for that would be the NON AJAX tabs. That is what I use for my Tabbed Forum Home .. the code is easy to imbed in php or via the vb template system.. You wouldn't need the AJAX version if you did it the way you are talking, because with the tabs imbeded into the php file itself, when you click on a tab, its going to execute the code within its area of the file (hope that made sense) lol if not, I will try and explain it better.

Hi

I tried to add a tab with the newest profile photos. But it shows this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/stonner/public_html/forums/tabexternal4.php on line 42

Could you please help me?

I attached my file tabexternal4.php.

Thank you very much

That error is because you need to echo out HTML in the file.. after looking at what you are trying to do, I think that the iframe option would be the best (since you are calling external javascript) .. I don't have any iframe stuff that you could look at that would help, so I would suggest going to dynamic drive and reading the section on iframes for AJAX Tabs 2 .. I'll do some digging when I have some spare time.. just have not played with that option yet (but know that its the best for what you are attempting)..

*Update* added two new sample content files for use with this addon as well as a sample make your own file (Replicate the vBa UserCP Block)

The FILES for these are located in Post 3 of this Thread.

NEW 02-07-2008 - tabrecentthreadsexp2.php - This file includes Post ICON Column and the ability to set a specific Thread Title Character cut off amount.

NEW 02-07-2008 - tab_blog.php - This content file is for use with vbulletins blog system. It is a BASIC recent blogs layout. The File contains 2 Layout Styles (Wide and Small). Wide is the default. To use small (for skinny Tab Layouts) remark out the 2 Wide Layout Areas and uncomment out the 2 ALT Layout Areas. Both display Title, Name, Data and Views.

What to make your own?
Check out Post 3 of this thread to see an example of replicating the USER CP BLOCK.

I apologize, I said I would post up the GARs tab that I completed and I completely forgot. For those of you using GARs for articles on your vBulletin forums, if you would like to display the latest recent GARs articles within an Ajax TAB you can do so with the following .php file:

Basically, I just took the GARs vB CMPS module file and merged it with the recent threads tab file that came with this Ajax TABS script (I think thats what I did? It's been a little while so I kind of forgot. :rolleyes:)

I hope this helps anyone using GARs and the Ajax TABs script. You can see this running live at my website (www.ready-up.com). There is currently a small bug in firefox with my nested tabs, just hit the "Home" link on the top of the page if you are using firefox and you should be able to see the tabs working perfectly after that. PM me if you have any questions or problems setting that up.

Thanks again bob, wonderful script! :cool:

OK.. this was pretty simple actually and I made you two different styles (basic and expanded) .. The Basic one is just as you described above. The Expanded one includes the Link Name, Author, Date, Time, Category, # of Replies and # of Views.

Each file comes with various configuration settings to meet your needs/requirements.. ie

$linkurl Variable (The full URL Path to your vba links directory)

$order Variable can be set as follows (1 = newest, 2 = most viewed, 3 = most comments, 4 = highest rated, 5 = random) to give you 5 different ways of displaying your data for your members.

$limit Variable can be set to the number of links you would like to display

$maxnamechars Variable used to set the max characters of the links name before the rest will be replaced with '...' NOTE: Set this to 0 to disable it.

Both files contain the same basic code, just different echo output to control the Layout for the Data.

To further customize the layout, look for the echo statements and edit the HTML output.. simple as that :cool:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/02/17.jpg

This is an mazing hack I have ever seen, thank you for your time to code.

I have a little request, I just want to make a simple tab category for different categories in a forum like the picture shown, say I click on announcement tab it only pulls out the threads about announcement, click on recent NFL news it shows only thoses threads of NFL news. Can somone show me how, the more I read on the post the more I confuse...

Thank you in advance...

Well, you will need to make 4 .php files (use the recentthreads example file and make 3 additional copies of it). Then, edit each file to contain only the forum ID you wish. Upload those new files, then edit the template, change the tab names to what ever you want and point each tab to the specific file.

bobster, I just wanted to say thanks for all of your work on this. Your support is nothing less than superb and you deserve a lot of credit. I installed it on my site this morning and it's working great!

You are more than welcome Eric. If you have any questions, feel free to PM me anytime.

hello bobster,

first: a hudge thank you for this work :)

I see in dynamic drive page a new js version. We can update in our installs?
The new version have a interesting feature [forward/reward] tabs

All the best
Joao Barroca
aka beduino

I was just there yesterday and didn't see it lol .. Im sure you can upgrade without any problems.. might have to change a few things in the template, but thats about it (besides uploading the new .js file) ..

I'll check things out :up:

EDIT: OK, checked it out. Nothing major, just a .(dot) release. All you need to do is upload the new .js and you can use the forward/back feature. When I get time, I will update posts 1-3 with the new available info. Thanks for the heads up bud!