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Addon: Auto-populate Navbar menu (for John's Arcade V3)

What this hack does:

It replaces the link in your navbar for the Arcade with a Dropdown menu of all the games that are active in your Arcade.

Motivation: Extrapolated from my other auto-populating menu for Erwin's vB3 hack ...

Files to edit: 2
global.php
includes/functions.php
Template to edit: 1
navbar
New phrases to insert: 1
Queries added: 1

Step 1: Add the following in the Phrase Manager under GLOBAL

Alternate: you can import the single phrase using the included XML file

************************************************** ******
Name: arcade_addon_title
Phrase: The Arcade!
************************************************** ******

Step 2: Add the following at the bottom of global.php

Find:

Code:

/*======================================================================*\

|| ####################################################################

|| # Downloaded:

Add Before:

PHP Code:


		
			
// Addon to John's vB3 ArcadeV3 hack - created by Natch

    $nav_arcade = genArcadeMenu();

// Addon to John's vB3 ArcadeV3 hack - created by Natch

Step 3: Add the following at the bottom of includes/functions.php

Find:

Code:

/*======================================================================*\

|| ####################################################################

|| # Downloaded:

Add Before:

PHP Code:


		
			
// Addon to John's vB3 ArcadeV3 hack - created by Natch

function genArcadeMenu() {

    global $DB_site,$vboptions;

    $theseGames = $DB_site->query("SELECT gameid,title,gamesettings FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "games ORDER BY title");

    while ($thisGame = $DB_site->fetch_array($theseGames)) {

        $arcmenu.= (is_int($thisGame[gamesettings]/2)) ? "" : "\t\t<tr><td class=\"vbmenu_option\"><a href=\"$vboptions[bburl]/arcade.php?$session[sessionurl]do=play&amp;gameid=".$thisGame[gameid]."\">".$thisGame[title]."</a></td></tr>\n";

    }

    return $arcmenu;

}

// Addon to John's vB3 ArcadeV3 hack - created by Natch

Step 4: Add the following to the template 'navbar'

Find:

Code:

Add Before:

Code:

<!-- Addon to John's vB3 ArcadeV3 hack - created by Natch -->

        <if condition="$show['member']"> <!-- remove this line and the endif if you wish all users and guests to view the menu -->

        <!-- flash arcade auto-menu -->

        <div class="vbmenu_popup" id="flasharcade_menu" style="display:none">

                <table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">

                <tr><td class="thead"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/arcade.php?$session[sessionurl]" title="$vbphrase[arcade_addon_title]">$vbphrase[arcade_addon_title]</a></td></tr>

$nav_arcade

                </table>

        </div>

        <!-- / flash arcade auto-menu -->

        </if>

<!-- Addon to John's vB3 ArcadeV3 hack - created by Natch -->

Find:

Code:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="arcade.php?$session[sessionurl]">Arcade</a></td>

REPLACE WITH:

Code:

<!-- Addon to John's vB3 ArcadeV3 hack - created by Natch -->

                        <if condition="$show['member']"> <!-- remove this line and the endif if you wish all users and guests to view the menu -->

                                <td id="flasharcade" class="vbmenu_control"><a href="#flasharcade">$vbphrase[arcade_addon_title]</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("flasharcade"); </script></td>

                        </if>

<!-- Addon to John's vB3 ArcadeV3 hack - created by Natch -->

NOTE: in the two navbar edits there are conditionals that WILL CAUSE the menu to only appear to Registered users - remove these conditional wrappers to show the menu to all and sundry ... ;)

Should work :) Enjoy, and props to John for his great Hack ...
U can see a demo @ http://www.mobileforces.org/ << running vBulletin 3.0.0 RC4 and vBIndex RC3, on PHP v4.3.4, MySQL 4.0.15

Screenshots attached: one with all default games enabled, and one with asteroids disabled

UPDATE: fixed up my comments - damn that copy and paste ... those that downloaded the attachment b4 5AM +11GMT, re-get the attachment, or make the following alterations to the above script:

Find twice:

Code:

// remove this line and the endif if you wish all users and guests to view the menu

Replace with:

Code:

UPDATE: IF YOU WANT ONLY N MOST POPULAR GAMES - check out this post

UPDATE: if you wat IMGAES in your dropdown menu, check out this post

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
Page Generation 0.01466 seconds Memory Usage 1,758KB Queries Executed 10 (?)
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