Modify header/nav of specific forums ie: forumdisplay.php?f=32

[tobybird]

What I am looking to do is this... Let's say I have three different categories on my board. Of course each category has it's own forums. I would like to modify the header or navbar area of each category's forum to contain category specific links back to my main site.

Example: Category 1 deals with Linux, Cat 2 is Sun OS and Cat 3 MS

Headers or navbar area of cat 1 forums would contain links to Linux pages in my main site. Cat 2 forums would have Sun OS links and cat 3 would have MS links.

While I'm not a coder, I'm comfortable editing board files. My problem is, I'm not sure which to modify. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.

eta: And if it is needed... I'm running 3.6.0

[ericgtr]

Sure, this can be done with a condition in the navbar template, here's an example:

Let's say your category is forumid 1, wrap the condition around the link you want to add like this:

    <if condition="in_array($GLOBALS[forumid], array(1))">
		<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="mylink.php">test</a></td>
		</if>

You may also add more forumid's to this same array if you want to use the same links for more than one category:

    <if condition="in_array($GLOBALS[forumid], array(1,3,5))">
		<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="mylink.php">test</a></td>
		</if>

You can use this for as many different navbar links as you want, just change the forumid accordingly.

[tobybird]

Sweet! I'll give it a shot. Thanks so much for the quick reply. :up:

eta: Very cool. I had to do a bit of tweaking for proper placement, but I got exactly what I was looking for. Thanks again, ericgtr!

[lukemax]

Hey, would something like this work?
(current header)

    <div id="headermenu">
	<ul>
	<li><a href="/main.shtml" title="Return to MyLAASP">Home</a></li>
	<li><a href="" title="Available now">Available now</a></li>
	<li><a href="" title="Hobbyist">Hobbyist</a></li>
	<li><a href="/providers.php" title="Providers">Providers</a></li>
	<li><a href="/reviews.php" title="Reviews">Reviews</a></li>
<li><a href="/chat/flashchat.php" title="Chat">Chat</a></li>
	<li><a href="">Newbies Corner</a></li>
	</ul>
    </div>

And changed it to

<div id="headermenu">
	<ul>
	<li><a href="/main.shtml" title="Return to MyLAASP">Home</a></li>
<if condition="in_array($GLOBALS[forumid], array(8))">
	<li id="current"><a href="/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=8" title="Available now">Available now</a></li>	
</if>
         <li><a href="/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=8" title="Available now">Available now</a></li>
<if condition="in_array($GLOBALS[forumid], array(4))">
	<li id="current"><a href="/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=4" title="Hobbyist">Hobbyist</a></li>	
</if>
	<li><a href="/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=4"  title="Hobbyist">Hobbyist</a></li>
	<li><a href="/providers.php" title="Providers">Providers</a></li>
	<li><a href="/reviews.php" title="Reviews">Reviews</a></li>
<li><a href="/chat/flashchat.php" title="Chat">Chat</a></li>
<if condition="in_array($GLOBALS[forumid], array(5))">
	<li id="current"><a href="/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=5" title="Newbies Corner">Newbies Corner</a></li>	
</if>
	<li><a href="">Newbies Corner</a></li>
	</ul>
    </div>

to make the tabs "highlight" when I go to a specific forum/category
To the tabular navbar in
http://www.mylaasp.com/forum/index.php

[ericgtr]

I'm not sure about the code you posted (haven't tried it out) but I am sure this can be achieved with the same process.