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

Brought to you by BirdOPrey5
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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[dimmicosacerchi]

Hi, I would like to add siderbar to the page tag. Can you help me with the call to insert? I can not make it appear on this page.
Thank you.
The page example:
dimmicosacerchi.it/forum/tags/31.12.2013.html

Thanks you very much!

[karlm]

Originally Posted by Rebecca217

- The activity stream block works perfectly on the forum home and activity stream pages

- On all other pages, the thumbnail and time show up in the activity stream block, but the topic title and link don't show up.

My forum looks exactly like the screen shot Rumas posted.

Any ideas how to correct this?

Same here, too...
I'm running 4.2.1

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

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.

It works. Thanks!

[PAPPACLART]

Installed, thanks, but how can I change the width of the side bar, as when I change the width via the styles and templates it only changes the width on the forum home and not in other place where the sidebar is displayed?

Thanks

[theroles]

hello, for version 4.2.2 can ?

[hellboundblogge]

Hello,

Please check, Sidebar is not coming.

URL: http://www.thetechism.com/forum/forum.php

Thanks!

[CharlieDelta]

I have discovered that if this mod is enable on usercp.php & profile.php you are unable to accept friend requests as it hangs upon clicking saved.
I have confirmed this both by disabling the mod completely and by simply disabling the option in the ACP.

[eh69]

Originally Posted by Rebecca217

I'm having this exact same issue, running 4.2.2. All the blocks work correctly throughout the forum, except for the activity stream block. Here's what happens:

- The activity stream block works perfectly on the forum home and activity stream pages

- On all other pages, the thumbnail and time show up in the activity stream block, but the topic title and link don't show up.

My forum looks exactly like the screen shot Rumas posted.

I checked, and there are no phrases that need updating.

Any ideas how to correct this?

I have this problem too.

[Disco_Stu]

Works great but I have one problem. The collapse button does not work at all on the CMS page in FireFox or Chrome. Works fine with IE. Works fine on all other pages even with Fire Fox. The problem is limited to the CMS page.

So to collapse the sidebar on the CMS page I have to go to another page and collapse it. Then when I return to the CMS page it is collapsed.

I'm sure it's something I screwed up in my custom style. Any idea what could be going on here?

I'm using 4.2.0 PL2

Thanks

Update:

It's working now. I think something in the browser was not clearing out properly but after I signed off and back on a few times it started working.

Great mod. Marked as installed

[GameOverViper]

Works on 4.2.1 and was easy to install. I love the options to disable for specific themes, forums and usergroups. However, my themes are fixed and it just makes things look so cramped. The members didn't like it so I'll have to work on a fluid theme and see how it goes with that sometime.

Tagged though