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

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by 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.

It would be the correct mod, however you need to define exactly *when* those sub-menus are supposed to show. If you can't define that, then your sub-menus will never show.

[Lynk]

Lynne, this is brilliant! I upgraded my forums (drzforums.com) last night, and ran into a few pain-points. Using your instructions, I created the navigation tabs that I would like, reusing all of the sub-menu links from the "Forum" tab. Now, I'm left with one more question, which I am having difficulty finding through search.

There is one "Quick Link" that refers to a javascript code bite. How do I program "Open Contacts Popup?" Can you point me in the right direction?

Thank you for the trouble you went through to document the tab creation process!

Heh... I guess I'm going to have to setup some conditionals for several of the sub-menu items. (I just viewed my site as a guest.)

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by Lynk

There is one "Quick Link" that refers to a javascript code bite. How do I program "Open Contacts Popup?" Can you point me in the right direction?

I'm not sure what you mean by How do you program it.

[NashChristian]

THANKS Lynne! Very helpful!

[Jason92s]

Originally Posted by Lynne

It would be the correct mod, however you need to define exactly *when* those sub-menus are supposed to show. If you can't define that, then your sub-menus will never show.

Gotcha...I only want them to show when I click the tab that they belong to. In a perfect world, when the user clicks a tab called Local Links, they will see 3 submenus appear below: 1) EG, 2) Laguna, 3) Sac. Then each of those will have their own URL or additional sub-menus to offsite pages or whatever. The "Local Links" page that opens when the user clicks the tab doesn't need any data if that's possible. Or if it must contain text, then I can just enter something describing the page to the user. Does that make any sense and is it possible? Thank you.

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by Jason92s

Gotcha...I only want them to show when I click the tab that they belong to. In a perfect world, when the user clicks a tab called Local Links, they will see 3 submenus appear below: 1) EG, 2) Laguna, 3) Sac. Then each of those will have their own URL or additional sub-menus to offsite pages or whatever. The "Local Links" page that opens when the user clicks the tab doesn't need any data if that's possible. Or if it must contain text, then I can just enter something describing the page to the user. Does that make any sense and is it possible? Thank you.

Ok, so write that as a condition now. For other vbulletin pages, THIS_SCRIPT is defined at the top - so if you only want something to happen on the showthread page, the condition is THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread'... so, what defines your page? Have you defined THIS_SCRIPT in it? If so, just use that as the condition in the plugin.

[Jason92s]

Do you know if it's possible to use vbAdvanced to create a BB Code page and have it work with this mod then? If memory serves the url looks something like sitename.com/index.php?pageid=pagename

what would you use for THIS_SCRIPT in that situation?

SOLVED:

I used:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'adv_index' AND $pages['name'] == 'testpage')

[alfanexus]

I want to create a tab for a specific section in the CMS. Is there a way to get the section name in the PHP code?

I can see the section name in the navbar so maby I can get the navbar text and use this for a compare?

I was thinking something like

PHP Code:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'vbcms')
{
          if (sectionname =='My Section')
          {
           $vbulletin->options['selectednavtab']='unique_name';
           $tabselected = ' class="selected"';
           $tablinks = '                <ul class="floatcontainer">
                        <li><a href="link1.php">Link 1</a></li>
                            <li class="popupmenu">
                                <a href="javascript://" class="popupctrl">Drop Down</a>
                                <ul class="popupbody popuphover">
                                        <li><a href="sublink1.php">SubLink 1</a></li>
                                        <li><a href="sublink2.php">SubLink 2</a></li>
                                        <li><a href="sublink3.php">SubLink 3</a></li>
                                </ul>
                            </li>
                        <li><a href="link2.php">Link 2</a></li>
                        <li><a href="link3.php">Link 3</a></li>
                </ul> ';


          }
} 


Please can anyone help? I have searched for this the whole day

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by alfanexus

I want to create a tab for a specific section in the CMS. Is there a way to get the section name in the PHP code?

I can see the section name in the navbar so maby I can get the navbar text and use this for a compare?

I was thinking something like

Please can anyone help? I have searched for this the whole day

You didn't put anything in your code that showed what variable names you have tried for the section name.

[alfanexus]

Originally Posted by Lynne

You didn't put anything in your code that showed what variable names you have tried for the section name.

No that was my question what variable names can I use to get a section?

Sorry if I am not being clear, I was hoping someone new a way to check for a section name in the php code.