Additional Navbar 3.5.3 and up

After upgrading my 3.0.0 version of this hack a long time back and repeatedly asking for it to be moved here in the 3.5.3 area with no success. I decided to add it here myself.

Despite what category this is in it works with vBulletin 3.0 up to the most recent version of 3.5.3. 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#1: 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;

[Shazz]

Originally Posted by rnmcd

I bet you can't show me a 3.6.4 website that has it installed. I'm not talking about your 3.6.2 patched version.

I have it on a test site which is .htaccess protected, Would you really like a screen shot of it?

[rnmcd]

Don't worry about it, thanks for the offer though.

[attroll]

Originally Posted by rnmcd

Don't worry about it, thanks for the offer though.

If you need help and would like me to look at this them let me know. It works with all versions on VB. I am the one that put this hack together.

[rnmcd]

How do you create the 'links' in the new navbar?

Also, can you have a different Additional Navbar for various forums/sub-forumus?

[attroll]

Originally Posted by rnmcd

How do you create the 'links' in the new navbar?

Also, can you have a different Additional Navbar for various forums/sub-forumus?

I don't know what you mean by "how do you create the links"?

The attached navbar2.txt is a good example of the template you need to create and it has samples of how to create links.

I am sure you can also set it up to use different additional navbars for different forums. I have never looked into it and I don't have to time to do that. Maybe someone else will jump in and help you on that.

[Eagle Creek]

Im trying to install it.. It's kinda confusing...

[Eagle Creek]

I guess I managed .

[afmarko99]

I have a question. I made an additional navbar and placed the coding in my header template. I couldn't post it like yours because my navbar is made of images from a style I imported.

How would I go about adding a dropdown menu to my additional navbar www.thepublicenemy.net. (The navbar with links I.E. Roster, TWL, New Post, etc.)

I would like to take a few of those links and categorize them into one dropdown.

[myown]

is it supported on 3.6.8 ?

[RichieBoy67]

Where is the plug in? I just spent a halfhour doing the template...

Can someone e-mail this to me maybe??

Thanks