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

[lowchia]

Hi Lynne

Thanks for helping us but after reading so much, my knowledge only increase by abit

My forum is at http://singstocks.com/forum

I just need to add a "Home" tab at nav bar: Home --> Forum --> What news

This home tab is a link back to my blog at http://singstocks.com.

Pls help and explain clearly as i am new at codes.

Thank you

<div id="navbar" class="navbar">

	<ul id="navtabs" class="navtabs floatcontainer<vb:if condition="$show['member'] AND $notifications_total"> notify</vb:if>">
		{vb:raw template_hook.navtab_start}
		<vb:if condition="!$vboptions['selectednavtab'] AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'search'">
			<li class="selected"><a class="navtab" href="{vb:raw vboptions.forumhome}.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase forum}</a>
				<ul class="floatcontainer">
					{vb:raw template_hook.navbar_start}
					<vb:if condition="$show['searchbuttons']">
						<vb:if condition="$show['member']">
						<li><a href="search.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=getnew&amp;contenttype=vBForum_Post">{vb:rawphrase new_posts_nav}</a></li>
						<vb:else />
						<li><a href="search.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=getdaily&amp;contenttype=vBForum_Post">{vb:rawphrase todays_posts}</a></li>
						</vb:if>
					</vb:if>
					{vb:raw template_hook.navbar_after_getnew}
					<vb:if condition="$show['pmmainlink']">
						<li><a href="private.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}" rel="nofollow">{vb:rawphrase private_messages}</a></li>
					</vb:if>
					{vb:raw template_hook.navbar_after_pm}
					<li><a rel="help" href="faq.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}" accesskey="5">{vb:rawphrase faq}</a></li>
					{vb:raw template_hook.navbar_after_faq}
					<li><a href="calendar.php{vb:raw

[cassis2k]

Originally Posted by Lynne

If the page you are clicking on has THIS_SCRIPT defined as 'adv_index', then 'adv_index' is what you need to put into the plugin. The plugin has the condition for when the tab is highlighted.

Thank you Lynne, it's perfect

[Lostboyfan]

How do I make a navbar tab stay highlighted with you click on it?

I would like to know as soon as possible

[Hippy]

your answer is above your post

[Lostboyfan]

Originally Posted by Hippy

your answer is above your post

Thanks for telling me. Must of been reading so many post that I finally just posted to get an answer and didn't know that it was right in front of me.

[crtsoft]

Great post. simple, and works great. thanks

[Dugchugger]

Thanks Lynne! It's Duggy-proof! I got it up and running in less than 5 mins. You are a vB Goddess!

[sailnet]

I just installed this code exactly as it appears, and it shows up on my forums menus but the drop downs do not appear - any ideas why?

I'm running on 4.1.0

I would have preferred to go with the template version of this mod but there's nothing in the template version about creating drop downs and I need drop down on my additional menu items.

[tdev1]

thanks for this tutorial, very nice

used to create a tutorial on how to embed webchat-IRC: http://thomasfischer.biz/?p=441

[larryd]

I've added a tab called Features which works great thanks..

Question is now that I am calling custom vb pages that I'm creating from this tab how do I get the tab to be the highlighted tab?

For example in my custom VB page dynodb.php

define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'dynodb');
define(ncoextratab, true);

The forum template for the Features tab is called nco_extra_navbar and looks like this

<vb:if condition="$vboptions['selectednavtab'] == 'ncoextratab'">

<li style="border-top-style:solid; border-top-color:white; border-top-width:1px; border-left-style:solid; border-left-color:white; border-left-width:1px;" class="popupmenu">

<a style="text-decoration:none;" color='#ff0000'" href="javascript://" class="popupctrl" ><b>Features</b></a>

<ul class="popupbody popuphover">
<li><a href="http://www.newcelica.org">Install Guides</a></li>
<li><a href="http://partscatalog.newcelica.org/page.php">Parts Catalog</a></li> 
<li><a href="http://tracktimes.newcelica.org/index.php">Track Times</a></li>   
<li><a href="dynodb.php">Dyno Database</a></li>   
<li><a href="http://www.newcelica.org/other/technical/index.htm">Technical Information</a></li>   
<li><a href="http://www.newcelica.org/other/store/index.htm">NC.org Gear</a></li>   
</ul>
</li>

<vb:else />

<li style="border-top-style:solid; border-top-color:white; border-top-width:1px; border-left-style:solid; border-left-color:white; border-left-width:1px;" class="popupmenu">

<a onmouseover="this.style.color='#ff0000'" onmouseout="this.style.color='#ffffff'" href="javascript://" class="popupctrl" ><b>Features</b></a>

<ul class="popupbody popuphover">
<li><a href="http://www.newcelica.org">Install Guides</a></li>
<li><a href="http://partscatalog.newcelica.org/page.php">Parts Catalog</a></li> 
<li><a href="http://tracktimes.newcelica.org/index.php">Track Times</a></li>   
<li><a href="dynodb.php">Dyno Database</a></li>   
<li><a href="http://www.newcelica.org/other/technical/index.htm">Technical Information</a></li>   
<li><a href="http://www.newcelica.org/other/store/index.htm">NC.org Gear</a></li>   
</ul>
</li> 

</vb:if>

The plugin hook calls nco_extra_navbar so why when I load my dynodb.php page does it not highlight the Features tab? It highlights the forums tab regardless of how I browse to the dynodb.php page

http://vb.newcelica.org/dynodb.php