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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[SGoogle]

I hava same error in 4.2.2

[AusPhotography]

Works for us 4.2.3 (and did on 4.2.2pl4) - probably does not help but I'd guess at a conflict with another plugin

We use PHP 5.6, Apapche 2.4, MariaDb 10.0.20 on Centos 6.6

[djbaxter]

Working fine for me on 4.2.3 as well.

[gobears20]

Is there a way that I could just display this information inside the side bar:

There are currently X amount of users online. x number of members and x number of guests online.

Most users ever online was X, 07-30-15 at 10:06 PM.

It would be PHP code but how would I display just that info in the side bar area? Thanks for any info!

[eh69]

How to show simple image in everywere block only on forum home (index)?
<vb:if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'index'">
<img src>
</vb:if>
dont woring. image still showing on all pages.

[nolimitreef]

We added a new forum category to our forum. It does not show in the sidebar. How do we add this new category?

Thank you

[squidsk]

Originally Posted by nolimitreef

We added a new forum category to our forum. It does not show in the sidebar. How do we add this new category?

Thank you

Why would it show in your sidebar? A forum category would show in your forum list, only those sideblock blocks that you create show in your sideblock. What exactly are you trying to do?

This mod only takes the sideblock and displays it on other sections of the site besides the main forum index, it neither adds nor removes sideblocks.

[Kushal Patel]

I was wondering if it's possible to just show thread name and not the description?

[Bastien]

I have the same problem for activity stream than SGoogle, Gobears20, nick-harper and Guadrian hope !

It works fine on index (2nd pic), but on other pages (showthread, calendar ...), links are not correct (1st pic) !



Any idea BOP5 ?

[Bastien]

Found the solution.

Problems come from phrases and variables.

You have to replace in x_replied_to_a_thread_y_in_z in GLOBAL, this

<a href="{1}">{2}</a> replied to a thread <a href="{3}">{4}</a> in <a href="{5}">{6}</a>

with this :

<a href="{1}">{2}</a> replied to a thread {4} <a href="{3}">{5}</a> in <a href="{6}">{7}</a>

In x_started_a_thread_y_in_z of GLOBAL, this :

<a href="{1}" class="username">{2}</a> started a thread <a href="{3}">{4}</a> in <a href="{5}">{6}</a>

with this :

<a href="{1}" class="username">{2}</a> started a thread {4} <a href="{3}">{5}</a> in <a href="{6}">{7}</a>