Forum Home Enhancements - [DBTech] DragonByte Forum Tabs v1 (vB4)

DragonByte Forum Tabs organizes the forum home page and it's forum content into Categories and AJAX Powered Tabs and includes a customizable Favourites Tab and a template editing free install.

Uses

Organizing the forums on the forum home into Tabs and those Tabs into Categories allows administrators to organize their content and reduce the length of the forum list. With AJAX powered Tabs as well as one click Favouriting of forums to add to a user's personal Favourites Tab, DFT makes navigating the forum home a more pleasant and customizable experience for users and admins alike.

Category Tabs can also have different styling allowing for very different looking sections to your forum home page. Tabs are remembered when coming back to the forum home page.

Installation is simple and includes no template edits.

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Major Features

AJAX Powered Tabs: Dynamically loaded AJAX Powered Tabs each with a customizable list of forums, including setting Tabs to being global and visible on all Category Tabs.

Stylized Category Tabs: Each Category Tab organizes the AJAX Powered Tabs and can have individual styles attributed to them.

Personal Favourite Tab: Each user can manage and organize their own Favourites Tab to contain just the forums they want to see.


Complete Feature List

Lite

AdminCP

• Customizable Tabs and Category Tabs
• Per Category Style
• Usergroup controlled permissions for each Category and Tab
• Option to sticky Tabs and Categories to prioritise them in display
• Set default tab per Category to override global defaults
• StyleVars for customizing the Tabs and Categories
• Can choose between image, text or both image and text tab display

vBulletin Options

• Set how many columns hidden/unstickied Category Tabs are displayed in
• Set how many columns subforums are displayed in on the forum home
• Enable or Disable the 'More' tab that contains hidden/unstickied Category Tabs
• Tab Idle Timer setting
• Global Default Tab setting
• Option to display notifications to users or not
• Set Default Usergroups when creating new Tabs and Category Tabs
• Disable the display of the Category Tabs

Forum Home

• Tabs load using AJAX
• Category Tabs can use different styles
• Tabs and Category Tabs can use an image only, text only or both text and images
• Favourite Tab
• Add forums to Favourites tab by one click on Forum Home and Forum Display pages
• Add forums via User Control Panel
• Drop down menu to add favourite forums in Forum Display pages
• Unstickied/hidden Category Tabs toggled by 'More' button
• Dimissable notifications for users who have not set a favourite forum or a default ta
• Subforums organized into customizable columns.

Pro

AdminCP

• Optional default or forced forums for Favourites tab
• Choose which instance of vBShout to display for that tab, if any (requires vBShout)

vBulletin Notices

• Set whether a notice will appear above the forums list for a particular tab

Forum Manager

• Automatically add a forum to the Favourites list for all users

vBulletin Options

• Tab Refresh Timer setting
• Option to display Unread Threads Counters on Tabs
• Tab Refresh flood check to prevent excessive tab reload

Forum Home

• Tabs automatically refresh
• Tabs automatically idle
• Tabs automatically unidle
• Remove all favourites options in drop down menu on Forum Home and Forum Display pages
• Add and Remove all subforums from favourites list
• Set default tab to load in the User Control Panel
• Integration with vBulletin's default Notices system so that notices will appear above the forums only when set to
• Unread Thread count can be placed within the Tabs
• vBShout integration above forums per tab (requires vBShout)

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[DragonByte Tech]

Thanks for posting matey. You need to change the phrase dbtech_forumtabs_favourites. This will change every use of that phrase, so let me know if it ends up changing more than you expect or need and we'll see if we can find a solution (as I'm not sure how widespread you want to change the term).

[DragonByte Tech]

Hi everyone,

Released a bug fix (v1.0.8) for DragonByte Forum Tabs (#DFT) to fix issues with compatibility for a number of non DBTech mods. This centres around a new setting which allows you to choose to not use the Quick Load methods DFT traditionally uses for loading AJAX Tabs and use a slightly slower version (for most forums) which will fix the compatibility issues we were having.

Feature: New Option to choose type of AJAX load.
Fixed: VaultWiki incompatibilities.
Fixed: Compatibility issues with some mods.

Changed the following files:
/dbtech/forumtabs/includes/class_core.php
/dbtech/forumtabs/hooks/cache_templates.php
/dbtech/forumtabs/hooks/process_templates_complete.php
/dbtech/forumtabs/clientscript/forumtabs.js

Thanks as always to everyone for their feedback and suggestions.

[RedDevil]

Tried updating getting this error

XML Error: Invalid document end at Line 2

[DragonByte Tech]

Fixed, thanks


Fillip

[STR8H8TEx]

Am I doing something wrong? I have the pro version, I bought like 6 months ago and since then have put all this a side. I am now back, and ready to build my site.

Say I make a category on my forums and call it sports. In the sports section there is say 4 forums called NBA, NFL, NBA & MLB. I want to make a tab and connect it to my sports section so when they click the tab is will show all 4 sports section. But I can't seem to get it to do this. OR the tabs can not do this? Or is my pro version out dated?

[DragonByte Tech]

Please post Pro support questions in our Pro support forums


Fillip

[cyceronpl]

It still isn't fixed.

This time I get:

XML Error: unclosed token at Line 848

[DragonByte Tech]

Problem should be fixed now. I've repackaged the zip with a new XML and that works fine for me. Let us know if there are any other problems.

Matt

[cyceronpl]

Now it installs fine. However I think there is a bug with sub forums and adding them to favourites. If you click the button which is supposed to add all Subforums of a forum to favourites, it does nothing but moves you to the top of the main screen.

[DragonByte Tech]

Thanks matey, will look into it and see what the problem is as the subforums favourite adding is a Pro only feature.

Matt