"My Links" Menu

[Digital Jedi]

This Mod put a drop down menu in the navbar with a list of custom links defined by whatever a user puts in one of his/her Custom Profile Fields. Our users really liked this addition on 3.0, but it needs to be modified to work with 3.6.

The problem, I'm told, is that it uses the php_include template, which is now controlled by the global_start hook. Not to mention, bbcode is parsed differently now.

Okay, I'm halfway certain I understand all of that. Let's presume I do. <twitch> So what I think I need to do is create a plugin that correctly gives $mylinks meaning. If that's the case, am I going in the right direction with plugin code below? It obviously doesn't work, but I'd like to know if I'm even on the right track, or just wasting my time. And if so, what wil make this work for 3.6?

PHP Code:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/class_bbcode.php');
 $parser =& new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list());
 $mylinks = $parser->do_parse($userinfo['field5']);  
    $mylinks = str_replace('<br />', '', $mylinks); 
    $mylinks = str_replace('</a>', '</a></td></tr>', $mylinks); 
    $mylinks = str_replace('<a', '<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a', $mylinks); 


I removed the if conditions simply because they weren't working either. They just made the link invisible, but with that said, I'm going to need to know how to make them work right too. To be fair, this is like the hundredth variation I've tried after reading about 3 different ways to parse BBCode. But I can't even get content to show in the drop down menu. It tries to open, but since there's no <tr><td> tags, it shows nothing. I know everyone says it, but any help would genuinely be appreciated. This will eat at me, until I can make it work. And I really need to sleep.

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What twitch?