Custom Navbar Links

Author: Andrew Harmor
Version: 1.20
File Edits: 0
Template Edits: 1
Difficulty: Easy

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Description:
Adds a drop down menu on your navbar which contains links you add through the ACP.


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FAQ


Q: The link doesn't look right on the navbar
A: While on your forums view the source and search for id="navbar_search"
To the right should be "class" (For the default skin the class is "vbmenu_control")

Edit the navbar template
Find:

PHP Code:

<td id="custom_links" class="vbmenu_control"> 


Replace the "class" so it's the same as the search's class.
Let's say you're class is "nav_element" then it should look like this

PHP Code:

 <td id="custom_links" class="nav_element"> 


Open the product xml in an editor
Find:

PHP Code:

<td class='vbmenu_control'> 


Replace with your class.

PHP Code:

<td class='nav_element'> 


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To get this to work with CMPS (Thanks To: drl2005)

In your CMPS settings under Portal Output Global Variables place:
custom_droplinks
custom_singlelinks

###########Changelog################

1.00
Initial Release

1.02
All Phrases are now in the product xml
The option to have link open in new window

1.03
Option to add new links on navbar as a stand alone link or in the drop down menu.

1.04
Sort the display order of links in the drop down menu.

1.05
16x16 images can be added to both stand-alone and drop down links

1.06
Templates are now cached


1.07
Fixed bug in product.
Changed the maximum characters for "name" from "20" to "100"

1.20
Usergroup permissions per link

[YOimYO]

OK. i have installed this when you added the images to the buttons. that same day.

its working ok. but i want to make sure i have the most recent version.


what do i need to do to reinstall the newest ? do i need to completely uninstall the older version ?




thx

[harmor19]

I didn't make that big of changes so no need to uninstall and lose all your links, well unless you want to.
All I did was increase the characters that "name" accepts from "20" to "100".

[YOimYO]

ok thx for the fst response

I dont use long names. so not needed. Ill wait till next upgrade if there will be one



thx

[kremer4]

Originally Posted by harmor19

I haven't forgot about you.
Perhaps I need to make it "unsigned"?

Edit:
I made it unsigned and I made the default value "0".
If you are stilling recieving an error do not hesitate to report it.

Thanks it's working now, the only thing is that the drop down menu is not lined up with extras links.

[harmor19]

If it's a problem I can try to fix it tonight.

P.S.
Click "Install"!!

[kremer4]

I'm up and running, all is good. Thanks for the great support.
<<INSTALLED IS NOW CLICKED>>

[Devil Woman]

Hi, had a member come to me with a problem on my board, I have Paul M's Display Unread Posts hack installed and when members click on the no posts to be read link and then go to the extra's link in the navbar it doesn't show up any links that are in extra's dropdown but yet when you go onto the main forum page and into the forums and the posts the extra's link is fine, is this because this modification is not compatible with Paul M's hack or is there a problem?

Thanks

[harmor19]

I guess there's a problem with my hack but what's new?
I'll be upgrading this hack to use usergroup permissions soon so I let me do that and I'll see why it's not working.

[kartik786]

Gr8 Hack...

Really Helpful ....

.. But the extra bar Pi****s me off .. I just want to take it off somehow . :|

Ne other ppl havin d same prob ?

[Thanatos]

I was running this previously, though I only had 2 links in it. I just upgraded to 3.5.3 and it doesn't work for me. I did the full upgrade.

I copied my navbar changes over to the new navbar template and did an install/overwrite and it does not add any links, whether they are drop downs or stand alones.

I have uninstalled, deleted the copy/pastes out of the navbar. Reinstalled, put them back and added test links (Stand alone and drop down) and none appear.