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Hi

I love the forum jump as set on DigitalPoint Forums. Does anyone have the code for it or could figure out a hack?

Thanks!

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

This thread explains that it's not javascript but something internal.

This thread explains it's DHTML.

Here, it says:

On this video it's looking very cool, think they have stolen the secret vb 5 alpha version. :rolleyes:

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

Looks like its a manual template edit honestly.

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.

Thanks for the replies.

I managed to find a mod for this and applied it with success on my forum.

That has to be one of the slickest mods I've seen for vb yet.

See this hack:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ghlight=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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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:

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:

I'd certainly like it, please!

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

im with you.
is anyone working on making this a mod we can download on vb.org?

hey eric did you post the template edits?

what template edits?
am i missing something?
did someone start writing this mod already?

i have a plugin i had made that makes a directory of all your forums on one page (without descriptions) by category. i bet if you took the code from that and stuck it into a popup it would look very similar. attached is a screen shot of what it looks like.

That plugin sounds interesting in its own right - have you uploaded it here?

i dont remember. it might have been released by the developer it might not have been. its been awhile.

Where did you find it?


Thanks!

I think he found it here. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=62493

Why is this thread so damn secretive.
I thought the whole point of this forum in the first place was to help one another.

That looks easy enough to do - I might set myself up for that as well. :) - I've already got something like that on my site - this would be a great addon to compliment that :)

so anyone gonna release it soon?

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

u are my hero

I dont see it in the sig

Where did you find it?

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

My version so far:

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.

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

Nicely done. :)

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:
and this is my menu code, added just below: <!-- NAVBAR POPUP MENUS -->

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.

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