Miscellaneous Hacks - Sidebar Anywhere (Formerly Sidebar for Activity Stream) by BOP5

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www.Qapla.com

Version 2.2.0

The new Activity Stream for VB 4.2.0 is very nice but it feels like it is missing something- and what it is missing is a sidebar. Ideally at some point VB will release a custom sidebar built just for the Activity Stream but until then this quick mod will let you use the built in forum sidebar on the Activity Stream.

As of version 2.0 besides just working on the Activity Stream the mod can now add a sidebar to ANY vBulletin page including forums, threads, groups, albums, who's online, forum leaders, and more. In fact you can easily add the sidebar even to custom pages from custom mods.

New Features

• Now works on ANY vBulletin Page (except blogs which have their own sidebar)
• Option to align sidebar with page content or top of page
• Option to Disable Sidebar Collapse Option (By Usergroup in 2.1.0)
• Collapsed sidebar state now "remembered" on different pages
• Option to enable Sidebar by Usergroup
• Option to disable Sidebar by Forum (if enabled for forums/threads)
• Option to disable Sidebar in specific styles
• Options to disable sidebars if mobile devices detected*

NOTE: To enable mobile device detection options you must install the Mobile Browser Detector mod.

Live Demo: Qapla.com Activity Stream

You can enable or disable the Sidebar Anywhere independently of the forum sidebar but they will both display the same content (blocks.)

NEW - If you need to have different blocks on different pages check out this add-on.

You must have at least 1 block setup and active for the sidebar to show.

Unlike most of my other mods this mod is enabled by default upon installation. Be default it is setup to show only on the Activity Stream and register.php pages.

I am aware there is already a mod out there "Everywhere Sidebar" by another coder. This is completely different code and I made this because my "Staff Online Sideblock" mod did not work on Sidebar Everywhere but it does work on this mod.

This mod requires at least VB 4.2.0 to work on the Activity Stream but should work on older VB 4.x.x versions on other pages.

Full view of admin cp options: http://www.qapla.com/mods/ss/sidebar...tings_full.jpg.

The old version Zip file Sidebar for Activity Stream by BOP5 v11.zip works only on the Activity Stream.

PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS INCLUDED WITH THIS MOD- THEY ANSWER MOST OF THE QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW TO USE IT.

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[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by LiveXenon

@BirdOPrey5


Hey, I have installed your product and it's very useful, I love it!

I need your help, please: I want to put sliding sidebar in Forumdisplay... How can I do it?

Thank you so much!

Make sure you downloaded: Sidebar Anywhere by BOP5 v220.zip

Forumdisplay will be a yes/no option in settings. Just choose YES.

[LiveXenon]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Make sure you downloaded: Sidebar Anywhere by BOP5 v220.zip

Forumdisplay will be a yes/no option in settings. Just choose YES.

I mean sliding sidebar with the scroll of the page...

[Mickie D]

Having a problem with the width when changing it in the style vars?

It works on the forumhome, but it does not work the width on any other page???

It stays at 250px, I would like to make it 200px on all pages not just the forumhome page?

EDIT

Additional problem:
It seems that turning off mobile devices is not functioning, members are reporting its still on using iphones, ipads, and androids?

Thank you for any help.
Mick

[dannycutts]

Can the sidebar be displayed on the left side of the site instead of the right hand side?

Also.....

Can I easily adjust the width of teh sidebar?

Cheers

Danny

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by LiveXenon

I mean sliding sidebar with the scroll of the page...

If it doesn't happen with the default sidebar it won't happen with this one.

Originally Posted by Mickie D

Having a problem with the width when changing it in the style vars?

It works on the forumhome, but it does not work the width on any other page???

It stays at 250px, I would like to make it 200px on all pages not just the forumhome page?

EDIT

Additional problem:
It seems that turning off mobile devices is not functioning, members are reporting its still on using iphones, ipads, and androids?



Thank you for any help.
Mick

For the mobile issue- did you install the mobile detection product? Here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=292704

For the sidebar width it works on my forum (Here I set the width to a narrow 150 for an example on the activity stream)


So not sure why it wouldn't work on yours- possibly a custom style? Can you see if it works on the default style?

Originally Posted by dannycutts

Can the sidebar be displayed on the left side of the site instead of the right hand side?

Also.....

Can I easily adjust the width of teh sidebar?

Cheers

Danny

In Admin CP -> Settings -> Options -> Forum Sidebar and Block Options you can choose Left or Right. Note this only works for the newer version of this mod- "Sidebar Anywhere" not Sidebar for Activity Stream.

The width should obey the stylevar forum_sidebar_width.

Originally Posted by Vidaelectronica

Hello everyone. I have a little problem:

It seems that the style of the tag cloud (bigger font if the tag is more used) is lost when the sidebar is shown in other place different from forum.php



Do anyone have experienced this and have solved it?

You can also spot the difference

here: http://www.tmas.es/foro/forum.php

and here: http://www.tmas.es/foro/otros-centro...13-cefaal.html

Thanks!

No idea of this?

Thanks!

[hugh_]

I have this mod working perfectly with all the pages I want except one. For some reason attachmentgallery|attachmentgallery isn't working with the following:

the scriptname: attachmentgallery

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'attachmentgallery');
$phrasegroups = array('posting','attachment_image','album');
$specialtemplates = array();
$globaltemplates = array(
'attachmentgallery',
'ag_shell',
'ag_bit',
'attachmentgallery_advopt',

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=264966

Any idea why?

Thank you!

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by hugh_

I have this mod working perfectly with all the pages I want except one. For some reason attachmentgallery|attachmentgallery isn't working with the following:

the scriptname: attachmentgallery

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'attachmentgallery');
$phrasegroups = array('posting','attachment_image','album');
$specialtemplates = array();
$globaltemplates = array(
'attachmentgallery',
'ag_shell',
'ag_bit',
'attachmentgallery_advopt',

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=264966

Any idea why?

Thank you!

The main template name for that mod is: ag_shell not attachmentgallery.

So try:

attachmentgallery|ag_shell

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Vidaelectronica

No idea of this?

Thanks!

Looks like I left out a special CSS template if the tagcloud is used.

For now you can fix by going to Admin CP -> Products & Plugins -> Plugin Manager

Edit the template Sidebar Anywhere CSS

Erase everything in the plugin and replace it with this code:

global $vbulletin, $sb_temps;

if ($sb_temps)
{

  if ($vbulletin->options['storecssasfile'])
  {
    $template_hook[custom_css_links] .= '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="clientscript/vbulletin_css/style' . str_pad($style['styleid'], 5, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT) . $vbulletin->stylevars['textdirection']['string'][0] . '/sidebar.css" />';

    $template_hook[custom_css_links] .= '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="clientscript/vbulletin_css/style' . str_pad($style['styleid'], 5, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT) . $vbulletin->stylevars['textdirection']['string'][0] . '/widgets.css" />';

    $template_hook[custom_css_links] .= '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="clientscript/vbulletin_css/style' . str_pad($style['styleid'], 5, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT) . $vbulletin->stylevars['textdirection']['string'][0] . '/forumhome.css" />';

    $template_hook[custom_css_links] .= '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="clientscript/vbulletin_css/style' . str_pad($style['styleid'], 5, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT) . $vbulletin->stylevars['textdirection']['string'][0] . '/tagcloud.css" />';
  }
  else
  {
    $template_hook[custom_css_list] .= 'sidebar.css,widgets.css,forumhome.css,tagcloud.css';
  }

}

The tags should now be correct sizes on all pages.

I will make sure this fix is in the next update.

[malmazan]

I'm wondering how to make it work on tags.php, which gets lots of hits. The problem is that there seems to be no template associated with that.