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Now that I've gone through all of the work, I hope this helps someone on here. A while back, I created two new tabs (Home and Groups) over at http://www.drzforums.com, and just replicated the navlinks from the Forums navtab. The result was a set of broken links for visitors, since some of the navlinks require registration.

Today, I converted the navlinks conditional statements from the vB-specific HTML found in navheader, into the PHP required for a plug-in. Here is the plug-in code for my Groups tab:

PHP Code:

$tabselected = '';
$tablinks = '';
if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'group')
{
    $vbulletin->options['selectednavtab']='navtablabel_groups';
    $tabselected = ' class="selected"';
    $tablinks = '<ul class="floatcontainer">'.$template_hook['navbar_start'];

    if ($show['searchbuttons']) {
        if ($show['member'])
            $tablinks .= '<li><a href="search.php?'.$session['sessionurl'].'do=getnew&amp;contenttype=vBForum_Post">'.$vbphrase['new_posts_nav'].'</a></li>';
        else
            $tablinks .= '<li><a href="search.php?'.$session['sessionurl'].'do=getdaily&amp;contenttype=vBForum_Post">'.$vbphrase['todays_posts'].'</a></li>';
    }

    $tablinks .= $template_hook['navbar_after_getnew'];

    if ($show['pmmainlink'])
        $tablinks .= '<li><a href="private.php'.$session['sessionurl_q'].'" rel="nofollow">'.$vbphrase['private_messages'].'</a></li>';

    $tablinks .= $template_hook['navbar_after_pm'].'<li><a rel="help" href="faq.php'.$session['sessionurl_q'].'" accesskey="5">'.$vbphrase['faq'].'</a></li>'.$template_hook['navbar_after_faq'].'<li><a href="calendar.php'.$session['sessionurl_q'].'">'.$vbphrase['calendar'].'</a></li>'.$template_hook['navbar_after_calendar'].'<li class="popupmenu"><a href="javascript://" class="popupctrl" accesskey="6">'.$vbphrase['community'].'</a><ul class="popupbody popuphover">'.$template_hook['navbar_community_menu_start'];

    if ($show['quick_links_groups'])
        $tablinks .= '<li><a href="group.php'.$session['sessionurl_q'].'">'.$vbphrase['social_groups'].'</a></li>';

    if ($show['quick_links_albums'])
        $tablinks .= '<li><a href="album.php'.$session['sessionurl_q'].'">'.$vbphrase['pictures_and_albums'].'</a></li>';

    if ($bbuserinfo['userid']) {
        $tablinks .= '<li><a href="profile.php?'.$session['sessionurl'].'do=buddylist">';

        if ($show['friends_and_contacts'])
            $tablinks .= $vbphrase['contacts_and_friends'];
        else
            $tablinks .= $vbphrase['contacts'];

        $tablinks .= '</a></li>';
    }

    if ($show['memberslist'])
        $tablinks .= '<li><a href="memberlist.php'.$session['sessionurl_q'].'">'.$vbphrase['members_list'].'</a></li>';

    $tablinks .= $template_hook['navbar_community_menu_end'].'</ul></li>'.$template_hook['navbar_after_community'].'<li class="popupmenu"><a href="javascript://" class="popupctrl">'.$vbphrase['forum_actions'].'</a><ul class="popupbody popuphover"><li><a href="forumdisplay.php?'.$session['sessionurl'].'do=markread">'.$vbphrase['mark_forums_read'].'</a></li>';

    if ($show['member'])
        $tablinks .= '<li><a href="profile.php?'.$session['sessionurl'].'do=editoptions">'.$vbphrase['edit_options'].'</a></li><li><a href="profile.php?'.$session['sessionurl'].'do=editprofile">'.$vbphrase['edit_your_details'].'</a></li>';

    $tablinks .= '</ul></li><li class="popupmenu"><a href="javascript://" class="popupctrl" accesskey="3">'.$vbphrase['quick_links'].'</a><ul class="popupbody popuphover">';

    if ($show['member']) {

        if ($show['member'])
            $tablinks .= '<li><a href="subscription.php'.$session['sessionurl_q'].'" rel="nofollow">'.$vbphrase['subscribed_threads'].'</a></li>';

        $tablinks .= '<li><a href="javascript://" onclick="window.open(getBaseUrl() + \'misc.php?'.$session['sessionurl'].'do=buddylist&amp;focus=1\',\'buddylist\',\'statusbar=no,menubar=no,toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=250,height=300\'); return false;">'.$vbphrase['open_contacts'].'</a></li>';

        if ($vboptions['forumleaders']) {
            $tablinks .= '<li><a href="showgroups.php'.$session['sessionurl_q'].'" rel="nofollow">';

            if ($vb_suite_installed)
                $tablinks .= $vbphrase['view_site_leaders'];
            else
                $tablinks .= $vbphrase['view_forum_leaders'];

            $tablinks .= '</a></li>';

        }

    }

    $tablinks .= $template_hook['navbar_quick_links_menu_pos1'].$template_hook['navbar_quick_links_menu_pos2'].$template_hook['navbar_quick_links_menu_pos3'];

    if ($show['wollink'])
        $tablinks .= '<li><a href="online.php'.$session['sessionurl_q'].'">'.$vbphrase['whos_online'].'</a></li>';

    $tablinks .= $template_hook['navbar_quick_links_menu_pos4'].'</ul></li>'.$template_hook['navbar_end'].'</ul></li>';
} 

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


Enjoy!