Board Optimization - Tabs Like vBulletin.org With Search

Okay heres how to do it
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AdminCP > Styles & Templates > Style Manager > Your Style > header
Find

<!-- /logo -->

Now add below:

<!-- tabs -->
		<table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0">
		<tr>
<td width="100%" align="right">
<a href="http://www.yoursite.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=X" class="tab"><b>Tab 1</b></a>
<a href="http://www.yoursite.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=X" class="tab"><b>Tab 2</b></a>
<a href="http://www.yoursite.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=X" class="tab"><b>Tab 3</b></a>
<a href="http://www.yoursite.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=X" class="tab"><b>Tab 4</b></a>
<a href="http://www.yoursite.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=X" class="tab"><b>Tab 5</b></a>
<a href="http://www.yoursite.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=X" class="tab"><b>Tab 6</b></a>
<a href="http://www.yoursite.com/forum/" class="tab"><b>Forum</b></a>
<a href="http://www.yoursite.com/" class="tab"><b>Home</b></a></td></tr ></table>
<!-- /tabs -->

Replace the X's with the forum ID. You might want to edit the settings first. The last tab will display on the left while the first tab will display on the right. So it goes from left to right order.
After you are done go to AdminCP > Styles & Templates > Style Manager > Your Style > Main CSS
Now add this to your Additional CSS

td.tab a:link,td.tab a:visited,td.tab a:active,a.tab,
td.tab2 a:link,td.tab2 a:visited,td.tab2 a:active,a.tab2,a:link.tab2,a:active.tab2,a:visited.tab2{
background:transparent url(http://www.imagelink.com/image.gif) top right no-repeat;
font:10pt tahoma,sans-serif;
width:76px;
height:20px;
text-align:center;
padding:2px 0 0;
margin:0 1px;
text-decoration:none;
float:right;
position:relative;
top:3px
}
td.tab a:hover,img.tab a:hover,.tab a:hover,a:hover.tab,
td.tab2 a:link,td.tab2 a:visited,td.tab2 a:active,a.tab2,a:link.tab2,a:active.tab2,a:visited.tab2{
background:transparent url(http://www.imagelink.com/image.gif) bottom right no-repeat
}

You can choose your own images, just use a direct image link and fill it in.
OH yeah, you can edit the CSS to anything you like i just put mine like that to match my skin.
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Okay if have chosen your tabs for the forum you want to display. Then go to
AdminCP > Forums & Moderators > Forum Manager > Your Fourm > Edit Forum
Scroll down to Posting Options, you will see

Forum is Active (Will not appear if set to no, but remains accessible if the forum's URL is known)

You need to set it to NO. Then you are good to go
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To make more than one category appear in a forum just make a new one with no parent forum. Now pick any category and set its parent forum to the new forum you just made. Now we got two Categories displaying. Make sure the X is the new forum you juse made or else it will not work. For the second category, make its parent forum the new forum you just made. Then once the tab is set to the new forum you have tabs like vb.org
I mean here is what i mean https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/forumdisplay.php?f=164
Have two categories with their parent forum as a category too. So you would set the X to 164 to show styles and graphics.
To make tabs only show to certain usergroups using IF condition it would look like this

<if condition="is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, 6,5,7)">
	<a href="http://www.yoursite.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=X" class="tab"><b>Staff Area</b></a></if>

Use the USERGROUP ID's
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Here is the search option like vbulletin.org
just place it below the

$ad_location[ad_header_end]

And you will be fine but you have to set the options first.

<br>
<td align="center"><if condition="$show['searchbuttons']">
	<!-- header quick search form -->
	<form action="search.php?do=process" method="post" <align="right">
	<input type="hidden" name="do" value="process" />
	<input type="hidden" name="quicksearch" value="1" />
	<input type="hidden" name="childforums" value="1" />
	<input type="hidden" name="exactname" value="1" />
	<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />
	<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" />
<div>
<div align="right"> 
<input type="text" name="query" size="18" style="font-size: 8pt;" />
<select name="forumchoice[]">
            <option value="-1" selected="selected">All Forums</option>
            <option value="1">Forum 1</option>
            <option value="2">Forum 2</option>
            <option value="3">Forum 3</option>
            <option value="4">Forum 4</option>
            <option value="5">Forum 5</option>
          </select>
<select name="titleonly">
		<option value="0" selected="selected">All Posts</option>
		<option value="1" >Titles Only</option>
	</select><input name="search" value="Search" type="submit" class="button" /><a href="search.php" accesskey="4" rel="nofollow" id="navbar_search1" class=""><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/menu_open.gif" alt="" title="Advanced Search" border="0" /></a>
            <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("navbar_search1",1); </script>
</div>
</form>
<!-- <br />
<form action="tags.php" method="get">
<span id="tag_wrapper"><input type="text" id="tag_input" name="tag" size="25" style="font-size: 8pt" value="enter tag, and hit enter" onFocus="this.value=''" onBlur="this.value='enter tag, and hit enter'"/></span>
</form> -->
<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="navbar_search1_menu" style="display:none">
	<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
	<tr><td class="thead" align="left">Search Options</td></tr>
	<tr><td class="vbmenu_option" align="left"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=finduser&amp;u=$bbuserinfo[userid]" rel="nofollow">My Posts</a></td></tr>
	<tr><td class="vbmenu_option" align="left"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=process&amp;showposts=0&amp;starteronly=1&amp;exactname=1&amp;searchuser=$bbuserinfo[username]" rel="nofollow">My Threads</a></td></tr>
	<tr><td class="vbmenu_option" align="left"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getnew" rel="nofollow">New Posts</a></td></tr>
	<tr><td class="vbmenu_option" align="left"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getdaily" rel="nofollow">Today's Posts</a></td></tr>
	<tr><td class="vbmenu_option" align="left"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=process&amp;replyless=1&amp;replylimit=0&amp;exclude=30&amp;nocache=1" rel="nofollow">Unanswered Threads</a></td></tr>
	<tr><td class="vbmenu_option" align="left"><a href="search.php$session[sessionurl]" accesskey="4" rel="nofollow">Advanced Search</a></td></tr>
	</table>
</div></td>
	<!-- / header quick search form -->
	</if>

That is quite easy just look here

            <option value="-1" selected="selected">All Forums</option>
            <option value="1">Forum 1</option>
            <option value="2">Forum 2</option>
            <option value="3">Forum 3</option>
            <option value="4">Forum 4</option>
            <option value="5">Forum 5</option>
          </select>

Then edit the option value to the forum category ID of whichever forum that you decide to put in there.
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If this was already posted, then im sorry. Just thought i'd post what i did to have tabs like here. Enjoy.
If you cannot understand some stuff of what i said, its because i haven't slept for 2 and a half days. :erm:
Mark as installed
See attachments also.
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DEMO: http://home.gamingcube.org

[kjsmith84]

can this be done with a vba module?

[tafreeh]

Originally Posted by ChopSuey

Can i have the link to the forum you are using them on? Cause i cant help if i cannot see them in action.

i assume you are using same hack here http://forum.gamingcube.org/
this is the one i tried...

[ChopSuey]

Originally Posted by tafreeh

i assume you are using same hack here http://forum.gamingcube.org/
this is the one i tried...

Nope its completely different. Im using Forum Home Tabs by bobster or whoever.

Originally Posted by kjsmith84

can this be done with a vba module?

Im not sure, but you can try

Originally Posted by exposed

Please help, im new to this and im not sure what im doing wrong.
Im not getting the search bar or tabs.
www.thecrowsview.com

You're probably doing something wrong here. Have you added them to your header?

[tafreeh]

Can you please show me any live demo ?
thanks

[freewilley]

I have seen the skin release somewhere but here its name is vbhybrid if I am not wrong and thanks for the mod I will test it on my forums

[ChopSuey]

Yes, and thanks for clicking install >.<

[ChopSuey]

Live demo added to first post

[x626xblack]

Live Demo Error

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/functions.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/init.php on line 166

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/gamincen/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/gamincen/public_html/forum/includes/init.php on line 166

[ChopSuey]

Its fixed lol.

[RedHacker]

What's this...?

http://www.imagelink.com/image.gif