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

[The Realist]

The instructions state:

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Add The Following Phrases to Error Messages
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Varname: custom_link_added
Text: The custom link has successfully been added.

Varname: custom_link_edited
Text: The custom link has successfully been edited

Varname: custom_link_deleted
Text: The custom link has successfully been deleted

The instructions should state the following:

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Add The Following Phrases to "Front-End Error Messages" in Phrase Manager > Add New Phrase.
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Varname: custom_link_added
Text: The custom link has successfully been added.

Varname: custom_link_edited
Text: The custom link has successfully been edited.

Varname: custom_link_deleted
Text: The custom link has successfully been deleted.

Laters

[Cyricx]

Should those phrases just add in through the product?

Nice hack!! Definately will use this and prolly tweak it abit to handle multiple menus

[harmor19]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

Should those phrases just add in through the product?

Nice hack!! Definately will use this and prolly tweak it abit to handle multiple menus

I don't know how to add phrases automatically but I'll look through some hacks and figure it out.

Originally Posted by harmor19

@c
I'll have to find the function for the radio buttons
@d
do you mean when hovering it shows text in the status bar?

the TITLE tag show the information in a popup when you hover the link, like everywhere here... not in the navbar...

for the radio button: something like this:

PHP Code:

    print_yes_no_row($vbphrase['theoptions_text'], 'link[theoptions]', $link['theoptions']); 


[harmor19]

I'm working on the phrases in the product then I'll add that hover thingy.

I already added the "open in new window" option (check the screenshots)

[The Realist]

Uninstalled due to errors on forum. Will wait until its out of beta.

[harmor19]

What errors were you recieving?
Has anyone else recieved any errors?

New screenshots added

[The Realist]

They were database errors but removed hack now so cant recover error text.

[yinyang]

how many extra queries does this run? (if any)

[Cyricx]

Just add the phrases and in the product drop down select your product, then when you export your product it'll have it in the xml