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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[Jonm]

is this working for everyone?

Suddenly mine is messed up and I've not change or added anything for months...

check it out - http://www.staffs-vw.co.uk/

[Jonm]

actually update - I disabled this mod and it now works... for somereason this mod was messing up vBulletins own sidebar

[BirdOPrey5]

Has the version of PHP changed on your server? If so, what are you on now?

[thenicehorizon]

working great
thank you very much

[Vintum]

This is not working for me on 4.2.2 pl4. I've set it to enabled and have chosen the options for the pages I want it displayed on. How would I got about troubleshooting this?

I'm noticing in the options that it only have the option to disable it one one style, the default style. I have two other styles installed that it is not picking up on. Might this be the issue? But also to note that it still does not load the sidebar even on default style.

I currently have two side blocks active.

[AusPhotography]

Works for us on vB4.2.3RC1 on PHP 5.5 (ad it ran on vB4.2.2pl4 previously).

Check the upload files etc. are in the right place

[Vintum]

There is nothing in the folder to upload. I've gone through all the settings and tried turning things on and off to no avail.
Not sure if php version would be the issue, but my server is running 5.3.

[M.Rizk]

I would like to change the width to 325 so that I can add ads there in a block. I edited the forum_sidebar_width from the stylevar but it's only affecting the sidebar when showing on the forum display, never inside topics.

[deltahawk5]

Originally Posted by Vintum

I'm noticing in the options that it only have the option to disable it one one style, the default style. I have two other styles installed that it is not picking up on. Might this be the issue? But also to note that it still does not load the sidebar even on default style.

Second this. Did you figure out a way around it?

[Vintum]

Originally Posted by deltahawk5

Second this. Did you figure out a way around it?

Nope, never got it to work.