Multiple Navbars
 

There is always a demand for increased navigation from your vB Board. This modification has been tested on 3.6.x, 3.7.x and 3.8.x

Hardcoding a menu is the best way to add the increased functionaility, without adding server load and queries. This template modificiation explains how to add additional simple navbars to your website. By utilising exisitng vB code from within the Navbar template, the menu will appear on all pages, including in add-ons such as vBa and Photoplog and Photopost.


A working expample can be found at Midlands Weather Forum

The basis of the navigation bar (refered to as the 'Main Code') is as follows:

To create a link visible to all usergroups add this code to replace the green section of the main code (above):
To create a link visible only to members add this code to replace the green section of the main code (above):
Placement is recommended above your existing navbar, due to the "drop down" lists.

Find the following line in your navbar template and place your compiled code above it.

Links to useful hints and tips within this thread:

Adding an admin only link: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....8&postcount=15
Border around navbar: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....29&postcount=7
Make link open in new window: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....9&postcount=22
Colour links: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....7&postcount=23

Great come in handy :)

hi,
i will test and install - really useful!:D
tks
beduino

Great Hack Optrex.
Heres a screen shot to show my version. :)

Hi m8, i have put mine above the navbar and its missing the line above the top of the botton cell? www.bashys-place.com/forums top bar you'll see

Any ideas as to the code to add it please?

Hi Bashy, There are 2 ways round that the first is to remove the following coloured text

or you can change the same coloured text to read 1px instead of 0px

Cheers m8, I added the 1 instead of removing it :)
All sorted now, thanks again!!

thanks for the tute. This is really helpful, I guess I could also add the navbar at the footer if I wanted right?

Could I also duplicate the current navbar so it shows in the footer? if so where should I add it?

Thanks

Yes the idea is you can create as many menu nars as you want. Because it's coded directly into the template there are no additional server loads or queries.

If you were putting it in the footer, I would choose to place it above
Again be careful of the placement of drop downs if you are going to move/copy your original.

Just what I was looking for.. many thanks!

Thanks for the tip; it came in pretty handy!

Installed and definitely has saved me from my users getting frustrated of having to scroll to the right and back to the left. ;)

Thank you for sharing this with the rest of us. :D

Thanks......:)

Something I'll add to this which I think is pretty useful... <at least it's been useful for me. :)>

The following will ad an 'ADMIN" link to your Navbar. Only admins will be able to see it.

under:
add:
Hope you'll find it as useful as I do.

Thanks Optrex, very usefull :)

Thanks morrow, I'll add it to the hints and tips.

Of course its easy to see how this can be changed to "moderator" only too.

*uninstalls marky's multi menu due to not working with some mods/hacks*

*installs optrex mutple menu's*

works great thanks !

Same ;)

and "SAME" again :)

Just installed this hack on my test enviroment, because I'm perparing an upgrade to 3.6.2 and it works teriffic. thanks a lot for this hack.

because I'm no hero with this stuff, how can I change the color of the link? and is it possible to chose even the link opens in a new window or staying in the parent window? that's the point I would need some help :o

*installed*

GREAT! Took only minutes!

Now what do I do to make some of these (but not all) open in a new window?

To open link in new window, add bold text:

To make the link a different colour add the bold text, where cccccc is the html colour you want to use.

Thank you very much!

Its looks nice and clean in my template too! I spot it right away! That will make for easy edit!

Worked like a charm!

So much control this way! :)

Thanks optrex ... that's really awsome :P ... Thanks you very much for your help

after spending many years with phpBB I am adjusting to this board that was a quick easy lesson on how things work on VB

excellent thank you:)

ok what template do all this coding go under?

the answer to that question is in bold in the instructions

thanks working great

this is one of the best mods

Thanks for the info.. this is a great mod!

And something I deffiantly am glad I learned!

A silly question, but how do I get the new links I've added to the additional nav bar to line up to the left and not centred as I haven't got that many extra links can be seen here here

Excellent mod!

AllenMead, in the 4th line of code change <tr align="center"> to <tr align="left">

it doesn't work with the DJ Fluid style

hehe

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...=1#post1110105

It would be very easy for me to say its a bug in that hack, especially as its not been updated since RC, but as I don't have it installed, if you want to pm me some template information, I'll take a look.

I am assuming the skin uses the parent navbar, rather than relying on its own - ie when you look at the templates in style DJ, the navbar template is yellow not red?

It does work, having just installed that skin in the fluid mode, it works fine. Like I say, you just need to modify the correct template for that style.

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/7792/menuej7.th.jpg

Sir If you look at the pic you put you are gonna see that some options came twice
like by example User Cp

can we make anything different and pass this problem?

That is because the designer of the skin has placed his navigation in the header. Just remove that part of code from the header template, or refer back to the person who made the skin for more advice.

ok thanx

let's wait for the Designer he might help us i hope

regards