Version: 1.00, by JJR512
Developer Last Online: Jun 2006
Version: 2.2.x
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Released: 08-09-2002
Last Update: Never
Installs: 3
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This hack puts links to all forums a user has access to at the top of the page (or anywhere else you want it). I've been using hard-coded links on my own forums ever since my site opened over two years ago, and many people love them. For the record, the idea of having links to all forums at the top of the page is not my original idea; I originally saw it at Hardware Central. This is also something I requested once, long ago, at vbulletin.com, and Tubedogg came up with something that worked fairly well. However, his version never had any permission-checking features, so links to all forums were displayed. My version, written from the ground up by myself, does check permissions.
Some assistance was also provided by FireFly, who showed me how to keep the separation character from appearing after the last link. Thanks, FireFly!
This hack is basically very simple. You just add a few lines of code to one file, and a variable to your header template to show the output. But you can take this and customize it greatly, by formatting how the output is displayed, by surrounding the variable with various tags to center it or control the font style and size, or you could make it into a table; it's all up to you.
For a simple example, look at http://testvb.jjr512.com All I've done there is put the variable at the top of the header template, inside smallfont and center tags. For a more elaborate example, take a look at http://www.jjr512.com I've built it into a table with a different background color and a thin line border with curved corners. It's also duplicated in the footer. How you do it on your site is up to you. The possibilities are endless. If you come up with something you feel is neat and unique, maybe you could share it with us to give others an idea or two.
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If you're going to use it as a drop-down, like the forum jump, why not just use the forum jump instead?
(I don't use forumjump anywhere on my board because before we ever started using vBulletin, everyone was used to these links, which I had hard-coded back in our UBB days. So, basically, I see this as an alternative to the forumjump feature...an easier-to-use alternative, since it just takes one click, rather than opening up the drop-down, scrolling if needed, etc. But if you like both, good for you! )
Hey JJR512 ... thank you for this ... but it's displaying every forum in my cp ... including a long ago deleted one, that isn't in my cp. It's also displaying the forums that are marked with a zero, that I don't want displayed. I logged out to be sure it wasn't just showing them to my userid.
I only want the forums listed that are currently showing on the forum home page. Is it suppose to display more than that?
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, this is so useful. props on this on
08-10-2002, 12:59 AM
