Miscellaneous Hacks - Sidebar Anywhere (Formerly Sidebar for Activity Stream) by BOP5

Brought to you by BirdOPrey5
www.Qapla.com

Version 2.2.0

The new Activity Stream for VB 4.2.0 is very nice but it feels like it is missing something- and what it is missing is a sidebar. Ideally at some point VB will release a custom sidebar built just for the Activity Stream but until then this quick mod will let you use the built in forum sidebar on the Activity Stream.

As of version 2.0 besides just working on the Activity Stream the mod can now add a sidebar to ANY vBulletin page including forums, threads, groups, albums, who's online, forum leaders, and more. In fact you can easily add the sidebar even to custom pages from custom mods.

New Features

• Now works on ANY vBulletin Page (except blogs which have their own sidebar)
• Option to align sidebar with page content or top of page
• Option to Disable Sidebar Collapse Option (By Usergroup in 2.1.0)
• Collapsed sidebar state now "remembered" on different pages
• Option to enable Sidebar by Usergroup
• Option to disable Sidebar by Forum (if enabled for forums/threads)
• Option to disable Sidebar in specific styles
• Options to disable sidebars if mobile devices detected*

NOTE: To enable mobile device detection options you must install the Mobile Browser Detector mod.

Live Demo: Qapla.com Activity Stream

You can enable or disable the Sidebar Anywhere independently of the forum sidebar but they will both display the same content (blocks.)

NEW - If you need to have different blocks on different pages check out this add-on.

You must have at least 1 block setup and active for the sidebar to show.

Unlike most of my other mods this mod is enabled by default upon installation. Be default it is setup to show only on the Activity Stream and register.php pages.

I am aware there is already a mod out there "Everywhere Sidebar" by another coder. This is completely different code and I made this because my "Staff Online Sideblock" mod did not work on Sidebar Everywhere but it does work on this mod.

This mod requires at least VB 4.2.0 to work on the Activity Stream but should work on older VB 4.x.x versions on other pages.

Full view of admin cp options: http://www.qapla.com/mods/ss/sidebar...tings_full.jpg.

The old version Zip file Sidebar for Activity Stream by BOP5 v11.zip works only on the Activity Stream.

PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS INCLUDED WITH THIS MOD- THEY ANSWER MOST OF THE QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW TO USE IT.

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[Dr.osamA]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

No, 4.2.0+ as it says in the title. There is no activity stream in 4.1.12.

thank you bro

but i see this in sorce

PHP Code:

    <dependencies>
        <dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="4.2.0 Alpha 1" maxversion="5.0.0" />
    </dependencies> 


for that i asked

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by Trangalleiro

Thanks Joe, awesome as always

Off topic .....house is da man that avatar rules. ..

Back on topic. I been following this B2B beta and this a must have that again BOP5

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Dr.osamA

thank you bro

but i see this in sorce

PHP Code:

    <dependencies>
        <dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="4.2.0 Alpha 1" maxversion="5.0.0" />
    </dependencies> 


for that i asked

"minversion" means "Minimum Version" so it says 4.2.0 Alpha is the Minimum version.

4.2.0 is greater than 4.1.12 because 2 is greater than 1. The 12 doesn't matter in this case.

[Hippy]

@ BirdOPrey5
cosmetically the sidebar is a tad high compared to the forum home
works perfect tho..
thanks

[gremrock]

Thanks checked the code works fine! Good idea too considering this is relatively new!

[joyboy2001]

A mod for 4.20 so soon ... Brilliant

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Hippy

@ BirdOPrey5
cosmetically the sidebar is a tad high compared to the forum home
works perfect tho..
thanks

Do you have a screenshot? (if it's something you want me to look at... if not don't worry about it.)

Originally Posted by gremrock

Thanks checked the code works fine! Good idea too considering this is relatively new!

Originally Posted by joyboy2001

A mod for 4.20 so soon ... Brilliant

Thanks everyone.

[espacioprofundo]

Hi Joe,

Yes, the sidebar it's a bit higher.

Thanks anyway for the mod!

[Hippy]

sorry BOP5 too much reading .. seems espacioprofundo beat me to the screenshot

seem the padding under #sidebar_container
in the sidebar.css does not work on both pages

[BirdOPrey5]

I see what you are saying. Personally I like it better as is, but I have released a new zip with an 'alternate' version aligned like it is in the forums. No version number change.