[Badshah93]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

But if it's not a static link? I'm supposed to tell user's to do it themselves now because vBulletin thinks they want more control over their navbar? Respectfully, most user's do not want total control, they want things done for them.

I've come up with this code, it's not efficient but it works, I will work on efficiency-

nhawk I know you mentioned making a database change but I prefer to avoid db edits if possible.

This example adds a link to Quick Links
No phrase needed.

On navigation_tab_complete hook:

PHP Code:

//Quick Links Add in 4.2.0 Start
  foreach ($tabdata AS $key => &$thistab)
  {
   if (is_array($thistab['children']))
   {
    foreach ($thistab['children'] AS &$ttab)
    {
     if ($ttab['name'] == 'vbmenu_qlinks')
     {
       $nl['root']  = $key;
       $nl['type']  = 'link';
       $nl['url']    = 'myfile.php';
       $nl['title']  = 'Link Title';
       $nl['name']  = 'custom_name_here';
       $nl['children'] = 0;
       $ttab['children'][] =  $nl;
     }
    }
   }
  }
//Quick Links Add 4.2.0 END 


Mind you that needs to be run for each new link which itself will likely be some kind of loop.

does 'name' key exist in tabdata[children] array, because when i print_r the tabdata array i did not find a word called "name" anywhere.

Well i liked vb 4.2.0 navigation manager and specially for my new mod. Yes i still have to create one plugin which i was doing in earlier version also but i won't have to create new template for it to use vb:each function.

i am creating a new mod which has one tab and under which there are 5 menu by default. (which i will create it through navigation manager)
there are 3 menu who's links are not fixed, it changes for each usergroup, so i will be creating array of links for those menus which i was for doing in earlier version also.

i don't know how others are going to place their dynamic links inside menu, but i will be doing this way

Plugin Hook: set_navigation_tab_main

PHP Code:


if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'myscript')
{

$rootid = $roots['mytabname'];   
$x = build_navigation_list(true, $rootid, false); // building mytabname list only

// An Array with menu name = $key and value = links array 
(ex: array([menu1] => array([0]=> array('title' => 'google', 'url' => 'google.com') 
[1]=> array('title' => 'vbulletin', 'url' => 'vbulletin.com')) [menu2] => (link array for menu2))

foreach ($array AS $menuname => $linkarray)
{

$menuchild = $x["$rootid"]["links"]["$menuname"]["navid"];

$tabs["$rootid"][children]["$menuchild"][children] = array_merge($tabs["$rootid"][children]["$menuchild"][children], $linkarray);

}

} 


Benefits of this method:

1) admin can add new menu inside "mytabname" easily through navigation manager
2) admin can add new links inside any menu. (even those menu which have dynamic links)
3) admin can change displayorder, title of any menu.
4) admin can change title of any links through navigation. (for dynamic links through phrase manager)
5) it hardly effects overall performance. (.1 extra second)