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

[sandalwood]

you probably just made an honest mistake, which messing with custom admin permissions and left that in there. canadminmyhack was the EXAMPLE string used in the post about that, so i can see now thinking about it you were just experimenting and accidentally left it in. i'm sorry i jumped all over you but i hate it when i see a mod include stuff that messed with core things like admin permissions and such.

hope i didn't ruin your day. thanks for taking the time to make this mod and for putting up with confrontational loud people like myself!

[sandalwood]

i understand now what happened. you are admin your board as SUPERADMIN, that overrides all access masks.

i am a normal admin.

this is why you custom access mask stopped me, but not you, and why you missed it in your testing.

please remove your custom access mask, or change it to actually work thank you.

[MarcusTangh]

Here's my problem:

The link doens't look right AND id="navbar_search" isn't found in any of the "Right click" Source code
I did however find:
<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="navbar_search_menu" style="display:none">

Just incase, I decided to try "vbmenu_popup" ironicly enough, it didn't work.
Suggestions?

I just thought of something else I should inform you of, in any template aside from default I could not find:
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

nor anything to do with Calander.php
so I just stuck it in there somewhere

[harmor19]

Thanks sandalwood.
I had no idea that permissions="canadminmyhack" cause conflict that's why I didn't remove it.

I'll edit the XML and re-upload

[sandalwood]

minor bug

if you go to "show new posts"
https://forum.example.com/search.php?do=getnew
and there are no new posts so you see the error message, then if you click the Extras menu, your items are not listed the menu is empty.

also if you do a search, and there are no results
Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.

all other places i could test, the menu works fine. its just those two error type pages, the menu becomes empty there.

[harmor19]

Someone else reported it and I thought it's to small to worry about.

[bashy]

Hi

I have 17 drop links and i take it this means i have added 17 queries to my forum
custom_droplinks (17) or am i totally wrong?

Please advise?

[harmor19]

That is correct.

[bashy]

Doh....

39 queries, 17 from this hack, damn, must remove some links lol

[Brandon Sheley]

how do we upgrade ? just upload the plugin ?
I see this

Q: Where are all the upgrade files located?
A: I have created a seperate folder in the archive specifically for upgrades
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but I looked all over the file I downloaded from the first post.. and I don't see this ?

thanks
-Loco