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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* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!
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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com

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Translations available @ our forum
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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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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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of all pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[DragonByte Tech]

Thanks for the suggestion ozzy47. Will look to adding this into the core content in the next update.

Matt

[muimui]

this mod can hide forum category(X) in forumhome?

[Spangle]

I using VB 4.2.1 The tab + button is interfering with the forum titles, can it be moved to the same area as the rss button, or at least moved so that it doesn't interfere with the forum titles

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by muimui

this mod can hide forum category(X) in forumhome?

Yes, you can hide the categories and forums you want. You can have the same forum and category appear in different tabs if you want.

Originally Posted by Spangle

I using VB 4.2.1 The tab + button is interfering with the forum titles, can it be moved to the same area as the rss button, or at least moved so that it doesn't interfere with the forum titles

They should appear there. Maybe there is a slight issue with your CSS styling, or perhaps the styling you are using is casuing an overlapping or 'new line' unexpectedly. If you get chance, can you PM me here or at dragonbyte-tech.com (my username is Mokonzi) a link to your site so I can take a look at the CSS myself?

Matt

[Voxes]

Hi, I recently installed this plug-in on my 4.2.0 forum, i'm actualy trying to build up a community forum for me and some of my friend so i'm a beginner with this kind of plug-in. I tried to create different categories for our forum, but I don't know how to show different content for each categories, I searched in the user guide available here : https://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/docs/forumtabs and didn't find out any solution for my issue, does anybody know a solution to show different content for two different categories? Here's screens to see my issue:

P.S. I'm usualy speaking french, sorry if I did some mistakes in my sentences

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Voxes

Hi, I recently installed this plug-in on my 4.2.0 forum, i'm actualy trying to build up a community forum for me and some of my friend so i'm a beginner with this kind of plug-in. I tried to create different categories for our forum, but I don't know how to show different content for each categories, I searched in the user guide available here : https://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/docs/forumtabs and didn't find out any solution for my issue, does anybody know a solution to show different content for two different categories? Here's screens to see my issue:

P.S. I'm usualy speaking french, sorry if I did some mistakes in my sentences

It looks like you have categories and tabs setup. The following bits of information might help:

The first tab is the 'All Forums' tab and will display everything. The Favourites tab will only display what favourites a user has selected.

The way the system works, when a user first goes to the forums for their first visit, they will either see the default tab within a category, or they will be dropped to the first available tab, which is the All tab (which appears within any category, as does the Favourites tab).

Navigating through the other tabs within a category will change what the tab is that is displayed on their next visit.

The final thing to remember is that each AJAX tab that you create can be made 'global', which means it will appear in every category.

I hope this helps you figure out what you need to change. If you still need some help, PM me on my personal account at www.dragonbyte-tech.com (My username is Mokonzi) with some access details to your site including your Admin Control Panel, and how you want things organized, and I'll take a look and see what needs adjusting.



Matt

[Milance]

problem

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[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Milance

problem

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Are you using a modified style? It may mean that the templates for the mod need adjusting to match the settings for the custom style.

Matt

[DragonByte Tech]

Update

Hotfix: PHP 5.4 Compatibility fixes


This does not guarantee the mod is error free on PHP 5.4, but it will take care of the reported errors. Thank you all for your reports



Fillip

[RedDevil]

Just upgraded to 4.2.2 and have had to uninstall due to getting this error

Warning: Non-static method FORUMTABS_CACHE::init() should not be called statically in ..../dbtech/forumtabs/hooks/global_start.php on line 21

any idea what the cause is? was fine prior to upgrade, this error in admincp