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NAVTAB Combo Drop-Menu with Sub-Items

I have seen several hack to add a NAVTAB menu item (we are talking about the main links).
However, I had not ran across anything that would do exactly what I wanted.

Here is what this does.
Say you have a few pages you want a drop-down link (from the NAVTAB).
For example, I have an add-on gallery.
I wanted a single NAVTAB button called "GALLERY" but a drop-down to select the add on or VB Albums.

There is documentation to cover that, however...
Once the user clicks the drop-down menu, the NAVTAB "GALLERY" button is no longer "selected" and you do not have those nice sub-menu items.

This little combo hack will do this.

First, you must know the THIS_SCRIPT for the pages you will load with the drop-menu.

Once you know this, you can add them to the THIS_SCRIPT area and do two comparisons.
If you are not on one of the THIS_SCRIPT pages, the NAVTAB will be a drop-down.
If you are on one of the THIS_SCRIPT pages, the NAVTAB will be a selected link with submenu items.

Make a new plugin and add this code.

Code:

global $template_hook;

$tabselected = '';

$tablinks = '';

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'DROP Page 1' || THIS_SCRIPT == 'Drop PAGE 2')

{

    $vbulletin->options['selectednavtab']='droppage';

    $tabselected = ' class="selected"';

    $tablinks = '    

                       <ul class="floatcontainer">

                        <li><a href="Sublink1.php">Sublink 1</a></li>

                        <li><a href="Sublink2.php">Sublink 2</a></li>

                        <li><a href="Sublink3.php">Sublink 3</a></li>

                        <li><a href="Sublink4.php">Sublink 4</a></li>';

                </ul>';

$template_hook['navtab_middle'] .= '<li'.$tabselected.'><a class="navtab" href="MainPage.php">Drop Links</a>'.$tablinks.'</li>';

} 

else

{

$template_hook['navtab_middle'] .= '

<li class="popupmenu">

<a  href="javascript://" class="selected popupctrl navtab">Drop Links</a>

<ul class="popupbody popuphover">

<li><a rel="album" href="droplink1.php">Drop Link 1</a></li>

<li><a rel="gallery" href="droplink2.php">Drop Link 2</a></li>

</ul></li>';

}

Nice Article. I get this error:

"Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/combatar/public_html/pfps/includes/class_bootstrap.php(509) : eval()'d code on line 52"

I will look what it is...

thanks alot 4 your work

Thanks Cory, very nice write-up! I now have 6 category drop-downs with 5 or so drop menus. :up:

Hi,

if i would like to create a plugin.
I need to choose "Add-on" and "Hook".

Can somebody tell me what to choose?

Thank you.

Skyborg

Don't work with 4.0.7.

I tried to implement that code but only get an error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in wholeserverpath/home/includes/class_bootstrap.php(517) : eval()'d code on line

Okay it seems to be that you have an error in your syntax

PHP Code:


		
			
global $template_hook;
$tabselected = '';
$tablinks = '';
if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'DROP Page 1' || THIS_SCRIPT == 'Drop PAGE 2')
{
    $vbulletin->options['selectednavtab']='droppage';
    $tabselected = ' class="selected"';
    $tablinks = '    
                       <ul class="floatcontainer">
                        <li><a href="Sublink1.php">Sublink 1</a></li>
                        <li><a href="Sublink2.php">Sublink 2</a></li>
                        <li><a href="Sublink3.php">Sublink 3</a></li>
                        <li><a href="Sublink4.php">Sublink 4</a></li>'; <--- this has to be erased ';
        </ul>'; <--- Cause here its the end

And for some reason I don't why the submenu shows not right

I use the following hack and it works great.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=233629

This should be cleaner code no reason for an else in there.

Code:

$tabselected = '';

$tablinks = '';

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'script1' OR THIS_SCRIPT == 'script2')

{

    $vbulletin->options['selectednavtab']='unique_name';

    $tabselected = ' class="selected"';

        $tablinks = '<ul class="floatcontainer">

                                    <li><a href="link1.php">Link 1</a></li>

                                    <li><a href="link2.php">Link 2</a></li>

                                 </ul> ';

} 

$template_hook['navtab_middle'] .= '

<li '.$tabselected.' class="popupmenu">

<a href="javascript://" class="popupctrl navtab">Members</a>

<ul class="popupbody popuphover">

<li><a style="text-indent: 0px; color:#000000" href="link1.php">Link 1</a></li>

<li><a style="color:#000000" href="link2.php">Link 2</a></li>

</ul>

'.$tablinks.'</li>

';

I'd like to use this mod but I am very confused as to the definition of this_script.

does this_script refer to page name such as forum.php, forumdisplay.php, showthread.php, etc?

is that what it means?

I'd like to use the tabbed menu built into vb4 because I'm currently using a commercial product in my vb3.8 install.

please help me understand.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ozzy47 (Post 2104881)

I use the following hack and it works great.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=233629

thanks just installed this and it works great

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