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;

[Viks]

UPDATE: sorry folks, i was able to figure it out.
Added navbar2 at the bottom of "navbar" tempelate.

everything is ok now.

[attroll]

To get navbar2 to work with vBadvanced CMPS portal do the following.

In your includes/vba_cmps_include_bottom.php file try looking for:

PHP Code:

global $vboptions, $vba_options, $vbphrase, $stylevar, $bbuserinfo, $show, $pmbox; 


Replace that with:

PHP Code:

global $vboptions, $vba_options, $vbphrase, $stylevar, $bbuserinfo, $show, $pmbox, $navbar2; 


[sportster]

Installed :nervous:

[SHANE-D-PAIN]

hey checkout what ive done with mine: www.teenageforums.com/forums/

[MR-2ZZ]

Awesome! Works great on my site: http://driftchat.com/forum/index.php

[MR-2ZZ]

Originally Posted by attroll

To get navbar2 to work with vBadvanced CMPS portal do the following.

In your includes/vba_cmps_include_bottom.php file try looking for:

PHP Code:

global $vboptions, $vba_options, $vbphrase, $stylevar, $bbuserinfo, $show, $pmbox; 


Replace that with:

PHP Code:

global $vboptions, $vba_options, $vbphrase, $stylevar, $bbuserinfo, $show, $pmbox, $navbar2; 


That didnt work for me. VB 3.06 BTW. I couldnt find that phrase. I found a phrase similiar and added the approprate phrase but nothing came of it.

[MR-2ZZ]

BTW it is actually working for me but the colors are not correct.

[hondaman]

How did you get it to work? I am using vBA CMPS 1.01. I followed the install directions, even did the edit to the vba_cmps_include_bottom.php file, but its not appearing on the front page.

[MR-2ZZ]

I just tried it with a new theme and it did not work.

[trulylowcarb]

Love this mod, as it gives me one uniform navbar that appears on both gallery and vb pages - thank you!!

Now, I wonder if someone could help me move the welcome/login box from the vb navbar into this one instead, so I can turn off the vb navbar on the gallery pages and make the site seem more integrated.
Thanks in advance.