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DJ's Dynamic Tab Content for Postbit_Legacy
Version: 1.50, by Digital Jedi Digital Jedi is offline
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Category: Miscellaneous Hacks - Version: 3.8.x Rating:
Released: 07-01-2008 Last Update: 08-19-2008 Installs: 151
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**As with most template edits, this modification is not version specific and will work on any vBulletin for vB3. You can find the vB4 version here.**

Ever felt your postbit_legacy template was just too long? Or maybe you'd like to add more content to your postbit_legacy, but you don't like the cluttered look or extended length of the post, especially when most posts are only a handful of sentences? Almost every decent modification here on vB.org has the option to add a link or a display to your postbit templates, and you've likely struggled, as I have, to come up with just the info you want to display, likely excluding things you thought would look real nice, but just couldn't justify the room for.

Now I've seen several good modifications that address this problem, and all of them are pretty nice. I've seen everything from a drop-down menu that displays the content, to a box that can be opened and closed just underneath the avatar. All of them are practical in their own way, and here's one more way that I worked out using a script from Dynamic Drive's website called Tab Content Script. This cleaned up my postbit_legacy just the way I wanted, and let me add even more content then I would have originally intended. It also allowed me to organize content in whatever manner I wished. I love it and I think you will too.


Screenshots


Live Demo
Click any of the grey dots beneath the user's avatars.


Difficulty: Intermediate
A few things you should know before moving forward. The instructions for this mod are not your standard template modification instructions. It's going to presume that you've edited your postbit_legacy template before and that you're somewhat familiar with its content, with HTML and how to wrap <if condition=""> conditionals. So it's not going to be a "look for this line of code, add this under it" kind of traditional tutorial. What I'm going to do is show you the basic code, how to implement it and then let you do with it what you want. That is, after all, the reason I came up with mod in first place, and I know everyone wont have the same postbit content and/or will want to set theirs up differently.

With that said, knowledge of how to modify your templates and basic HTML coding is something every vBulletin administrator should have. I'm not a coder. I'm a complete hack. But I know enough to take some of the wealth of code snippets available on the web and attempt to use them in new and inventive ways. Administrating a vB forum is that much more satisfying as a result.


Installation
To add this to your forum requires you to upload some files, make one edit to your headinclude template and one to your postbit_legacy template. If you don't know what postbit_legacy does, it's the template that controls the look of your posts when you've chosen to have avatars and user information appear to the left hand side of your posts. If you don't use that look for your forum, but instead use the one where avatars appear above your posts, then that means you use the postbit template, and this modification wasn't designed to look right on that template. (Though we have had a few users give it a try.)

Step 1.
First things first. After downloading the Dynamic Tab Content for Postbit_Legacy.zip file, extract the contents and upload the postbit_tabs folder in your forum's root directory (Your forum root is the folder you have physically installed vBulletin in, which means that for some folks, this isn't the same thing as your site root.)

Step 2.
Right click and download this JavaScript file from the Dynamic Drive website: tabcontent.js (You can also download it from this page.) Upload it to the postbit_tabs folder you just added to your website.

Step 3.
Now to edit your headinclude template. Go to Admin CP >>> Styles & Templates >>> Style Manager >>> <<>> >>> headinclude.

Add the following block of code to the very bottom. Remember to keep the copyright intact for legal use.
Code:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="$vboptions[bburl]/postbit_tabs/tabcontent.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="$vboptions[bburl]/postbit_tabs/tabcontent.js">
/***********************************************
* Tab Content script v2.2- ? Dynamic Drive DHTML code library (www.dynamicdrive.com)
* This notice MUST stay intact for legal use
* Visit Dynamic Drive at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for full source code
***********************************************/
</script>
Step 4.
Now to access your postbit_legacy template, go to Admin CP >>> Styles & Templates >>> Style Manager >>> <<>> >>> Postbit Templates >>> postbit_legacy.

From here, your going to add a basic set of code from which you can then customize it. You can pretty much add it anywhere in the template, but most likely your going to want to add it just below the avatar. If that's the case, your avatar code is most likely going to look something like this:

PHP Code:
<if condition="$show['avatar']">
    <
div class="smallfont">
     &
nbsp;<br /><a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]"><img src="$post[avatarurl]$post[avwidth$post[avheightalt="<phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[xs_avatar]</phrase>" border="0" /></a>
    </
div>
   </if> 
Below that add this basic set of code. This block of code will be your physical tab content.

PHP Code:
<!-- BEGIN POSTBIT TABS -->
<
div id="postbittabs$post[postid]class="djdot">
 
<
ul>
<
li><span title="View Tab 1"><a href="#" rel="tab1$post[postid]id="selected$post[postid]">&nbsp;</a></span></li>
<
li><span title="View Tab 2"><a href="#" rel="tab2$post[postid]">&nbsp;</a></span></li>
<
li><span title="View Tab 3"><a href="#" rel="tab3$post[postid]">&nbsp;</a></span></li>
<
li><span title="View Tab 4"><a href="#" rel="tab4$post[postid]">&nbsp;</a></span></li>
<
li><span title="View Tab 5"><a href="#" rel="tab5$post[postid]">&nbsp;</a></span></li>
</
ul>
 
<
br style="clear: left" />
 
</
div>
 
<
div class="smallfont">
 
<!--
TAB 1 CONTENT -->
<
div id="tab1$post[postid]class="tabcontent">
 
<
div class="info">Tab 1 Content:Block A</div>
<
div class="info">Tab 1 Content:Block B</div>
<
div class="info">Tab 1 Content:Block C</div>
 
</
div>
 
<!-- 
TAB 2 CONTENT -->
<
div id="tab2$post[postid]class="tabcontent">
 
<
div class="info">Tab 2 Content:Block A</div>
<
div class="info">Tab 2 Content:Block B</div>
<
div class="info">Tab 2 Content:Block C</div>
<
div class="info">Tab 2 Content:Block D</div>
 
</
div>
 
<!-- 
TAB 3 CONTENT -->
<
div id="tab3$post[postid]class="tabcontent">
 
<
div class="info">Tab 3 Content:Block A</div>
<
div class="info">Tab 3 Content:Block B</div>
<
div class="info">Tab 3 Content:Block C</div>
<
div class="info">Tab 3 Content:Block D</div>
<
div class="info">Tab 3 Content:Block E</div>
<
div class="info">Tab 3 Content:Block F</div>
 
</
div>
 
<!-- 
TAB 4 CONTENT -->
<
div id="tab4$post[postid]class="tabcontent">
 
<
div class="info">Tab 4 Content:Block A</div>
<
div class="info">Tab 4 Content:Block B</div>
<
div class="info">Tab 4 Content:Block C</div>
 
</
div>
 
<!-- 
TAB 5 CONTENT -->
<
div id="tab5$post[postid]class="tabcontent">
 
<
div class="info">Tab 5 Content:Block A</div>
<
div class="info">Tab 5 Content:Block B</div>
<
div class="info">Tab 5 Content:Block C</div>
<
div class="info">Tab 5 Content:Block D</div>
<
div class="info">Tab 5 Content:Block E</div>
<
div class="info">Tab 5 Content:Block F</div>
<
div class="info">Tab 5 Content:Block G</div>
<
div class="info">Tab 5 Content:Block H</div>
<
div class="info">Tab 5 Content:Block I</div>
 
</
div>
 
</
div>
 
 
<
script type="text/javascript">
var 
mytabs=new ddtabcontent("postbittabs$post[postid]")
mytabs.setpersist(false)
mytabs.setselectedClassTarget("link")
mytabs.init()
</
script>
 
<!-- 
END POSTBIT TABS --> 
Now go to your forum and see if your tabs are displaying properly and your not getting any errors. You should have five dot tabs that display five different sets of information when clicked.

Final Steps
Now comes the hard part. Now you have to decide what you want to put in those places called Tab 1 Content:Block A, etc. This is where knowledge of your postbit_legacy template comes into play. Your now going to move whatever content you want in the respective tabs from their current location into the tabs. This is entirely up to you, but you can use my forum as a starting point. The following posts also have some tips to help you along the way.

Post 2 has a Basic Breakdown of what the tabs do, a tutorial on how to add more tabs, default snippets of code that you can move into the tabs containers as well some snippets from common hacks.

Post 3 has some links to other sites that have implemented this hack to give you an idea of what can be done with it. And it has some additional images to use in place of the default dots.

Post 5 has Frequently Asked Questions for most problems you would encounter.




Known Bugs
There is one minor issue with the tabs that only occurs when using the AJAX quick reply and inline editing. Actually it's two issues, but I've only seen one or the other on my live site vs. my demo board. In one instance, the entire content of all your tabs displays all at once when posting/editing using AJAX. This is not a huge deal, as the only person who sees it do that is the person doing the posting/editing. And it will return to normal anytime he reloads or refreshes the page. The other instance is when after posting/editing through AJAX, no tab content appears, except the dot tabs. This is also not a huge deal as the same thing will happen here too; only the poster sees it and it will look normal anytime he returns or reloads the page. I think it's a minor trade off for the sleek look it gives your forum the rest of the time.

Upgrade Instructions
For those using the 1.00 version of this modification, please see this post for upgrade instructions.

Screenshots

File Type: png Postbit Tabs Screenie.png (9.1 KB, 0 views)
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I have problems with members logging out too
I solved it!!!
in postbit disable function mytabs.setpersist set is mytabs.setpersist(false)
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I have problems with members logging out too
I solved it!!!
in postbit disable function mytabs.setpersist set is mytabs.setpersist(false)
Gonna try that now thanks
Will let you know how it goes
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I have problems with members logging out too
I solved it!!!
in postbit disable function mytabs.setpersist set is mytabs.setpersist(false)
I've had issues with Members staying logged in as well
I hope this solves it - thanx

Jacquii.
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Let me know if this solves the trick!
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Ljusya I have problems with members logging out too
I solved it!!!
in postbit disable function mytabs.setpersist set is mytabs.setpersist(false)
Gotta say its working for us !!!!

No complaints yet !!!

We even whacked a tutorial on for our users.

http://www.yobromofo.com/forum/tutor...w_postbit.html
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Nice tutorial - reminds me I need to do a few for my updated site design...

Anyway - I have to say I've been browsing all afternoon and have not had one issue with being logged out since I made this edit... Hopefully the issue has been resolved!

Thanx,

Jacquii.
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Is there one for a mood changer?
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Nice tutorial - reminds me I need to do a few for my updated site design...

Anyway - I have to say I've been browsing all afternoon and have not had one issue with being logged out since I made this edit... Hopefully the issue has been resolved!

Thanx,

Jacquii.
Thanks.

It seems to have done the trick !

Somehow, switching to false, stops the js failing cache or something, not sure what or how, but seems to work
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I would like more information on making sure this works I was having the logout problems and just want every nook and cranny covered!
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I would like more information on making sure this works I was having the logout problems and just want every nook and cranny covered!
We are only a small forum, but :

On average 10,000 page views to forum home per day.
always about 40 members online.

10% were having issues.

Since the change not one reported incident.
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