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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* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* 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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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]

This sounds interesting.

First thing to check with the tabs is that you've included the main parent category along with the forums you want to use. So as an example let's say you have the forums below (a - indicating a sub level and the numbers reflecting the ID of the forums):

Category 1
- Forum 5
- Forum 6
-- Subforum 11
-- Subforum 12
- Forum 7
Category 2
- Forum 8
-- Subforum 13
-- Subforum 14
Category 3
- Forum 9
Category 4
- Forum 10

To make Forum 10 and Subforum 14 appear, you'd need to have Category 2, Forum 8, Subforum 14, Category 14 and Forum 10 selected. Usually forums not appearing is related to not including the parent forums and categories.

Regarding the pages requiring a hard refresh to appear, it might be you need to disable this setting:
AJAX Tabs Quick Load

That setting is designed to speed up the AJAX page load by only loading forum data. But some other plugins and mods require hooks that don't exist in that quick method. Disabling it might help fix that.

If those don't work, feel free to PM me some login information and I'll take a look at your setup. You can do that here or to my username Mokonzi on the http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com forums.

Hope this helps.

Matt

[KGodel]

Disabling the Ajax feature fixed everything. Thanks man!

[DragonByte Tech]

No problem. Glad we figured it out.

Matt

[synseal]

Originally Posted by 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

Was this hotfix applied to the pro version on your site as I have the latest version installed of this Mod 1.09 running vb4.4 with PHP 5.4.27 and it was working fine until I applied the latest patch from vb4.2.3 to vb4.2.4 now I get the same error as above.


I have had to disable all modifications to get into the ACP then turn this Modification off otherwise its a blank page with this message.

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

tia

[synseal]

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[synseal]

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[ozzy47]

Originally Posted by synseal

Was this hotfix applied to the pro version on your site as I have the latest version installed of this Mod 1.09 running vb4.4 with PHP 5.4.27 and it was working fine until I applied the latest patch from vb4.2.3 to vb4.2.4 now I get the same error as above.


I have had to disable all modifications to get into the ACP then turn this Modification off otherwise its a blank page with this message.

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

tia

You would get better response time asking on their site, they only check here once a week or so.

[synseal]

Thanks ozzy but I'd prefer to discuss it here. I have noticed they have been online several times sinse posting this so ill ask again

Originally Posted by 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

Was this hotfix applied to the pro version on your site as I have the latest version installed of this Mod 1.09 running vb4.4 with PHP 5.4.27 and it was working fine until I applied the latest patch from vb4.2.3 to vb4.2.4 now I get the same error as above.


I have had to disable all modifications to get into the ACP then turn this Modification off otherwise its a blank page with this message.

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

tia

[ForceHSS]

Originally Posted by synseal

Thanks ozzy but I'd prefer to discuss it here. I have noticed they have been online several times sinse posting this so ill ask again



Was this hotfix applied to the pro version on your site as I have the latest version installed of this Mod 1.09 running vb4.4 with PHP 5.4.27 and it was working fine until I applied the latest patch from vb4.2.3 to vb4.2.4 now I get the same error as above.


I have had to disable all modifications to get into the ACP then turn this Modification off otherwise its a blank page with this message.

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

tia

There is no vb 4.2.4 version it only goes to 4.2.3

[synseal]

4.2.2 PL4....

Can I have a response from DB please?

I have two Pro modifications down since the latest patch from VB and from past experience with support on their site I would prefer support here out in the open.

Thanks.