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

[TygerTyger]

There's on more minor bug, if you set the links to open in a new window, they only do so if you click on the link itself in the drop-down menu. Clicking the link background opens the link in the same window.

[harmor19]

Are yuou saying that links that are not in the drop down menu opens in a new window regardless of what setting you put them?

[harmor19]

Originally Posted by b6gm6n

Is there a way to catorgarize links with seperators? ...

If you entered some text for the cat heading but didn't enter a link then the seperator would appear! - sound good?

-b6

you'll have to do it manually.
I'll make a tutorial that will show you how soon

[harmor19]

I have taken this hack out of beta.

Hopefully more people will check it out now.

[Rhoads]

Thnx harmor19, working perfectly.
Only in my CMPS it's not working, maby you have a fix for that

Edit: fixed, see below

[TygerTyger]

Originally Posted by harmor19

Are yuou saying that links that are not in the drop down menu opens in a new window regardless of what setting you put them?

No, sorry mate. It's working perfectly, except if you click on the link background (the table cell bit that changes colour) it opens the link in the same window, even if it's set for a new window. If you click on the link text itself, it opens in a new window as it should. Very minor, really.

Something else which I believe might have been mentioned, but possibly not...I'm running the Microstats plugin and it is displaying this information:

(1 queries for uncached templates)
Uncached templates: custom_droplinks (1)

No clue if that's right or wrong or what, just FYI.

And I have a small suggestion in case you were interested, would be really nice to be able to specify a 16x16 icon to go with a link you have added as an option.

Thanks for the Extension again, really great stuff.

[Rhoads]

Oke I have already found a solution to work with CMPS.
In your CMPS settings under Portal Output Global Variables place:
custom_droplinks
custom_singlelinks
Now it's working with CMPS

[harmor19]

No, sorry mate. It's working perfectly, except if you click on the link background (the table cell bit that changes colour) it opens the link in the same window, even if it's set for a new window. If you click on the link text itself, it opens in a new window as it should. Very minor, really.

I see what you mean, I don't know how to fix it.

And I have a small suggestion in case you were interested, would be really nice to be able to specify a 16x16 icon to go with a link you have added as an option.

I'll think about it.

[harmor19]

Originally Posted by drl2005

Oke I have already found a solution to work with CMPS.
In your CMPS settings under Portal Output Global Variables place:
custom_droplinks
custom_singlelinks
Now it's working with CMPS

I posted the solution on that hack info thingy at the top.

[Neutral Singh]

This is what i have been looking for, for a long long time, should be standard in vBulletin. Where can i edit the formatting of stand alone links? Thanks