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;

[mustang_lex]

Originally Posted by attroll

We got Edrick's web site working.

One thing to keep in mind when editing templates in your styles is that sometimes editing the Master(Default) style it will not edit the child styles all the time. For example if you edited the navbar template in a child style it will not update later in that particular child style when you go and edit the Master(Default) style.

Once a template has been edited in a child style you can not expect to edit it in the Defult style and have it update in the child style you edited.

I hope that makes sense.

Yes makes perfect sense. I don't have any other styles except one for now so it would be over my head anyways. Glad it works now!!!

[XFGHIA]

Hey, how come the navbar2 wont show up on my vBa CMPS home page, do i need to edit the CMPS index.php file? if so what will i need to add?

[Edrick]

try editing all the templates. Do not trust the feature of inheriting properties form a parent style. I had a similar problem.

Try doing so. It worked for me

[Omega Prime]

Originally Posted by XFGHIA

Hey, how come the navbar2 wont show up on my vBa CMPS home page, do i need to edit the CMPS index.php file? if so what will i need to add?

There's an option in the CMPS settings to add "navbar2" to the list of variables so it'll work with it

[XFGHIA]

Thanks Omega Prime, perfect!!!

[attroll]

Originally Posted by XFGHIA

Thanks Omega Prime, perfect!!!

Did you get it working with CMPS? There is one php file you need to edit to get it working with CMPS. That template is vba_cmps_include_bottom.php. Let me know if you still need help.

[ashley53680]

Thank you for updating this for 3.5!!

[marcjd]

Originally Posted by attroll

This can be done. But it looks like the site you are talking about incorperated it into their existing $navbar. It was not a seperate template.

I played around with it a little and I got it to work but I have to put it in the existing $navbar. I did not try it with drop downs though. I will have to play with it some more later on and see if I can get drop downs to work like in another table within $navbar. I can not promise I will get right on it though. I am pretty buisy.

I basically did this at my site by just editing the existing navbar. It wasn't too difficult. I just looked at the code, copied what I want duplicated on the top, edited it, and pasted it.
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[Samira]

I'm having a cosmetic problem I wanted to ask about. Pardon me if it's the way it's supposed to be; it isn't a big deal, but I thought I'd ask.

When a drop down is clicked on, it is way over to the left, as opposed to directly underneath. (screen attached) Is there any way to correct this? It did it on 3.0.7 and now 3.5.0 for me.

I'd also like to know where to add $navbar2 within the vBa CMPS system if someone knows. The previously posted location doesn't exist in the 2.0.0 version that I can see.

Thanks in advance.

[attroll]

Originally Posted by Samira

I'm having a cosmetic problem I wanted to ask about. Pardon me if it's the way it's supposed to be; it isn't a big deal, but I thought I'd ask.

When a drop down is clicked on, it is way over to the left, as opposed to directly underneath. (screen attached) Is there any way to correct this? It did it on 3.0.7 and now 3.5.0 for me.

I would have to look at your navbar2$ template. If you could send me your email address in a pm then I can write to you and send you my email address and then you could send your telplate for me to look at.

I'd also like to know where to add $navbar2 within the vBa CMPS system if someone knows. The previously posted location doesn't exist in the 2.0.0 version that I can see.

open the vba_cmps_include_bottom.php that is located in the includes directory and

Find:

global $pages, $stylevar, $headinclude, $header, $footer, $vbulletin, $vbphrase, $stylevar, $show, $pmbox, $vba_options, $vba_style, $navbar, $cusid, $_REQUEST, $gobutton, $pagetitle, $pagecache, $db;

Insert the $navbar code like below:

global $pages, $stylevar, $headinclude, $header, $footer, $vbulletin, $vbphrase, $stylevar, $show, $pmbox, $vba_options, $vba_style, $navbar, $cusid, $_REQUEST, $gobutton, $pagetitle, $pagecache, $navbar2, $db;