[HOW TO - vB4] Create a New Tab in the navbar

[cellarius]

Sorry, I mixed you up with jacx. Anyway, I posted the solution for your problem on the previous page of this thread, #199

[Yonatan]

Originally Posted by cellarius

Sorry, I mixed you up with jacx. Anyway, I posted the solution for your problem on the previous page of this thread, #199

I got this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function getNodeId() on a non-object in /home/*username*/public_html/vb/includes/class_bootstrap.php(399) : eval()'d code on line 3

when I used this code.

this is my code:

PHP Code:

$tabselected = '';
$tablinks = '';
if (in_array($this->content->getNodeId(), 5))  
{
    $vbulletin->options['selectednavtab']='content.php?r=5';
    $tabselected = ' class="selected"';
    $tablinks = '';

}
$template_hook['navtab_end'] .= '<li'.$tabselected.'><a class="navtab" href="content.php?r=5">News</a>'.$tablinks.'</li>' ; 


[jacx]

Originally Posted by Lynne

Why couldn't you link to that?


Instead of:

PHP Code:

<a href="/page.php">A page on your site</a> 


do:

PHP Code:

<a href="http://www.anothersite.com/page">A page on another site</a> 


when i tried that it took me to http://mysite.com/link.php

Edit...im trying to post the code i used and keep getting "Bad Request" when i do it..anyone know what im doing wrong so i can post what i had entered?

[vglobal]

Hi Lynne,

If I want only the user with id=1 to see the link. What I have to do?

Thanks.

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by jacx

when i tried that it took me to http://mysite.com/link.php

Then you have a setting or modification that is doing that. If you have the link written as going to http://www.somesite.com/link.php then it should go there, not to your site.

Originally Posted by vglobal

Hi Lynne,

If I want only the user with id=1 to see the link. What I have to do?

Thanks.

This was covered, I think, on page 2 or 3.

[Jason92s]

I created a PHP file with nothing in it but the following:

PHP Code:

<?php
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'locallinks');
?>

My plugin script has the following:

PHP Code:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'locallinks')
{
    $vbulletin->options['selectednavtab']='locallinks'; 


At the bottom of the plugin is:

PHP Code:

$template_hook['navtab_end'] .= '<li'.$tabselected.'><a class="navtab" href="/index.php?pageid=locallinks">Test Link</a>'.$tablinks.'</li>' ; 


When I click on my new tab, it highlights the Forum tab and shows all the regular stuff found under Forum (New Posts, Private Messages, FAQ, etc).

Any help is appreciated.

[vglobal]

Originally Posted by Lynne

This was covered, I think, on page 2 or 3.

Thanks, but that is cover for usergroup.

I create new NavTab as follow, and I want only me to see the Chat Admin. Please help.

$tabselected = ''; 
                $tablinks = ''; 
                if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'chat') 
                    { 
                    $vbulletin->options['selectednavtab']='chat'; 
                    $tabselected = ' class="selected"'; 
                    $tablinks = ' <ul class="floatcontainer"> 
                        <li><a href="chat/admin.php" target="_blank">Chat Admin</a></li></ul> '; 
                    }  
                $template_hook['navtab_end'] .= '<li'.$tabselected.'><a class="navtab" href="chat.php">Chat</a>'.$tablinks.'</li>' ;

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by Jason92s

I created a PHP file with nothing in it but the following:

PHP Code:

<?php
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'locallinks');
?>

According to your code, your page is located at http://yoursite.com/index.php?pageid=locallinks Yet, I'm guessing that is not the link to your actual php page you created above? You you get sent to index.php which is probably forwarded to your forum.php page (check the script) and thus the Forum tab gets highlighted.

Originally Posted by vglobal

Thanks, but that is cover for usergroup.

I create new NavTab as follow, and I want only me to see the Chat Admin. Please help.

$tabselected = ''; 
                $tablinks = ''; 
                if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'chat') 
                    { 
                    $vbulletin->options['selectednavtab']='chat'; 
                    $tabselected = ' class="selected"'; 
                    $tablinks = ' <ul class="floatcontainer"> 
                        <li><a href="chat/admin.php" target="_blank">Chat Admin</a></li></ul> '; 
                    }  
                $template_hook['navtab_end'] .= '<li'.$tabselected.'><a class="navtab" href="chat.php">Chat</a>'.$tablinks.'</li>' ;

Instead of this sort of condition:

PHP Code:

if (is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, 5, 6, 7)) 


You would use this sort of condition:

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] == 1) 


You probably want to wrap that condition around the full contents of the plugin if it is only to show for that userid.

[vglobal]

Thank you very much.

[Jason92s]

Thanks for the reply Lynne...I actually have no clue what I'm doing (is it that obvious?). I just want to have a new link called Local Links that when clicked will show 4 new sublinks with their own links. On the new tab I really don't need it to display any content when it's clicked, just the links. Is this the right mod for me? Thanks again.