Additional Navbar

Dispite what category this is in it works with vBulletin 3.5. Just read the directions.

What this does is create another navbar with drop down menu?s by typing $navbar2 in any of your templates. It is just like the one that comes with vBulletin 3.

After seeing a lot of replies about users wanting another navbar besides the basic one that comes with vBulletin. I waited for someone else to write one. But no one stepped forward and wrote one. I wanted this for my site and got tired of waiting for someone else to write it. So I played around and created this one for myself. I though I would share it with everyone.

Note: If you do not want to add a separate navbar template you can also substitute the steps in 5A through 5D and insert the navbar2.txt after you have edited it the way you want and into the same places as I mentioned for the $navbar2 in your default navbar and you will not have to do any of these other steps.

I put a lot of description tags in the HTML file to help explain what everything does. Once you understand what is going on here you can removed these. With very little modifications you can add to, remove or move items around in this navbar.

1. To install this hack you will have to create a template in you ADMINCP and call it ?navbar2? and insert the contents of the attached file "navbar2.txt" into this template file. Right now it is set up for my site. So you will have to modify it to what you want in this navbar for your site.

2. Put the following command in your phpinclude_start template:

PHP Code:

eval('$navbar2 = "' . fetch_template('navbar2') . '";'); 


2A. This is for users that have vB 3.5 and up. Step 2 will not work because the phpinclude_start template no longer exist in versions 3.5 and higher. So for 3.5 users ignore step 2 and use 2A.

Plugin System
Add new Plugin

Hook Location: global_start
Title: navbar2
Plugin PHP Code:

PHP Code:

eval('$navbar2 = "' . fetch_template('navbar2') . '";'); 


3. Now put the following command in you header or what ever template where your want the new navbar to be displayed (samples of where to put them are in the attached photos and directions are in 5A, B, C, D.):

PHP Code:

$navbar2 


4. Since the template is uncached you will have an extra query on each page. To fix, open global.php
Find:

PHP Code:

// misc useful 


Add below:

PHP Code:

'navbar2', 


5A. Under current Navigation / Breadcrumb Templaters - navbar:
Find:

<!-- / nav buttons bar -->

Below that place:

$navbar2

5B. On top of forums tables:
Find:

<!-- / PAGENAV POPUP -->
</if>

Below that place:

$navbar2

5C. Under your header:
Find:

<br />
<!-- breadcrumb, login, pm info -->

Above that add:

$navbar2

5D. Top of current navbar:
Find:

<!-- breadcrumb, login, pm info -->

Under that add:

$navbar2

vBadvance CMPS using vB 3.5 or higher. To get this working with the homepage you will have to do the following.

Go into your ADMINCP-->vBa CPMS-->Default Setting-->Portal Output Global Variables and add navbar2 in the block there and save it.

Arcaded hack. You will need to go into your darcaded hack and edit a line. Here are the directions:
Go to you arcade/functions/functions.php
open it with a text editor:
Find:

global $header, $vbphrase, $vboptions, $stylevar, $headinclude, $bbuserinfo, $session, $show, $pmbox;
global $forumjump, $timezone, $logincode, $_USEROPTIONS, $scriptpath, $admincpdir, $modcpdir, $quickchooserbits;

Replace with:

global $header, $vbphrase, $vboptions, $stylevar, $headinclude, $bbuserinfo, $session, $show, $pmbox;
global $forumjump, $timezone, $logincode, $_USEROPTIONS, $scriptpath, $admincpdir, $modcpdir, $quickchooserbits, $navbar2;

[trulylowcarb]

I decided to just remove the bottom part of the navbar with all the links, and leave the breadcumbs and login box only.... I quickly created another template called navbar_lite and copied the code from my existing navbar into it, removing everything after the login info. Then I adjusted the addition to the phpstart templete (change the navar2 to navar_lite) and replaced $navbar with $navbar_lite in the gallery template .
This worked great for me.

[RichieBoy67]

This is an awesome addon but I have one question.

I have added an html "sponsor Page" to my site that I link up too.

http://www.talkandmore.net/adpage1.htm?

It is just a really simple basic page to list sponsors, ads, links etc.. Is there any way I can put the navbar on this page??

Thanks,


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[KanyeWest]

i added new templates to my site www.idenonfire.com but it wont show the double nav bar i did all the editing for navbar and navbar2 it wont work whats wrong

[SuperGLS]

Check out how I did mine... www.elantraxd.com.

This way both bars and next to each other.

[attroll]

Originally Posted by KanyeWest

i added new templates to my site www.idenonfire.com but it wont show the double nav bar i did all the editing for navbar and navbar2 it wont work whats wrong

Did you do step 2 and 3 and create a template called navbar2?

It is hard to see what you did wrong when I can only look at you front page and forum page. I can not see what you di that is not making it work.

[beano33]

Originally Posted by SuperGLS

Check out how I did mine... www.elantraxd.com.

This way both bars and next to each other.

I like that a lot. What did you do to get the bars like that?

[attroll]

It looks like he did the same thing I did with my web site but you can not see the table border because it is the same color as the background. This is what I have donw with mine. www.whiteblaze.net

[RichieBoy67]

This is an awesome addon but I have one question.

I have added an html "sponsor Page" to my site that I link up too.

http://www.talkandmore.net/adpage1.htm?

It is just a really simple basic page to list sponsors, ads, links etc.. Is there any way I can put the navbar on this page??

Thanks,

[attroll]

Originally Posted by RichieBoy67

This is an awesome addon but I have one question.

I have added an html "sponsor Page" to my site that I link up too.

http://www.talkandmore.net/adpage1.htm?

It is just a really simple basic page to list sponsors, ads, links etc.. Is there any way I can put the navbar on this page??

Thanks,

I could not get that link to work.

It depends on how your doing it. Is the sponsor page in your templates? It looks like it is a stand alone sponsor page. If is is a stand along page then it will not work. But if it is a template then just add $navbar2 in the template.

[RichieBoy67]

Oh, sorry... that link is no good because I added a portal.. here is the new link

http://www.talkandmore.net/forums/adpage1.htm?

Yes, It is a stand alone....