Add-On Releases - Dropdown Tab 's in navbar FINAL (0 edits required) IE7 friendly

Etab menu system
beta-released for vb4 5-jan-2010 - Final release 28-martch-2010 - Last update 24-april-2010
Current Version 1.2

UPDATE : This is a complete new rebuild, lost alot of functions from beta
and links are not compateble with old beta. Future upgrade will be
compatable with this version.

Main thing is, this is now old browser friendly. including linux browser friendly.

About :
Meant for all "non-coders" who want a new tab the easy way..
Easy adding a new tab, and easy adding new links to that single tab.

The attached zip with sorting instructions is a html how to guide on how
to move the tabs around and also placing them between existing vb tabs.

Demo : Here
the dropdown tabs there is by this mod.

Features :

• No copyright notices on page's
• Nameing each tab
• Link color control from admincp.
• Easy acces from AdminCP
• Unlimited ammount of tabs and links.
• [s]Usergroup controls (who can see the tabs)[/s] - will come back eventually.
• Target controls, what window to open in (good if iframes/named windows)
• Sort order, known like the weight system. with click arrows to control weight.

Download :
New full release : evi menu 2010.zip

History :

28-mar-2010 full release 1.1
-completely rebuild, unlimited ammount of tabs, easyer control, admincp functionallity.
24-april-2010 Version 1.2 update
- Added weight system, to control sort order of links and tabs when displayed for user.




Changelog + todo list full version :
- Weight system / Sort order. * In current version

Installation instructions :

- Upload files from zip
- Import product

Upgrade instructions :

Upgradeing from 1.1 to 1.2
1 - Upload the nytabs.php to admincp
2 - reimport the product, allow overwrite


Plans for upgrades + buglist/reports :
- Usergroup control for each tab./- Usergroup view acces on each tab.
- Image support for links. Not sure this will be implemented, will look into it though.

Feedback and suggestions are wery welcome,
remember to mark installed..


Eqvaliser/Vaupell

[is_it_me]

Great mod, but there're two major problems for me:

1 - The new navbar tabs only display for users logged-in, and most my site's traffic is visitors. I am testing vb4.02.

2 - I am getting the problem described by Trek below in IE 8 when running in Windows Vista (see this screen grab), but it's OK in IE 8 running on Windows XP.

Originally Posted by Trek

Found a problem with IE7 and this display.

The tabs appear in the middle of the tabnav. They also don't have the dropdown arrow denoting that the tab is a dropdown. When you click them though, the dropdown appears where it should, as if the tab were in the correct place, but the tab is still in the middle of the tabnav.

Any ideas on these two problems?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Vaupell]

Originally Posted by is_it_me

Great mod, but there're two major problems for me:

1 - The new navbar tabs only display for users logged-in, and most my site's traffic is visitors. I am testing vb4.02.

2 - I am getting the problem described by Trek below in IE 8 when running in Windows Vista (see this screen grab), but it's OK in IE 8 running on Windows XP.



Any ideas on these two problems?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Yes i know whats wrong, and its older ie browsers thats ++++ing it up!
and nothing to do about it. Im working on a complete rebuild of this mod that is nothing
like it is now, but with unlimited tab count and such, admin panel same style as now.
But for now, this is as is. Im using it on my own site, and basicly i put a banner
saying if your using old browsers, go away. my content is only for users with ability
to upgrade their browsers anyway..

but the new build is working in ie6 and 7, but is wery buggy so wont ewen beta
release it right now. but i will ofcurse replace the new mod with this, when its ready.

[is_it_me]

Originally Posted by Vaupell

Yes i know whats wrong, and its older ie browsers thats ++++ing it up!
and nothing to do about it. Im working on a complete rebuild of this mod that is nothing
like it is now, but with unlimited tab count and such, admin panel same style as now.
But for now, this is as is. Im using it on my own site, and basicly i put a banner
saying if your using old browsers, go away. my content is only for users with ability
to upgrade their browsers anyway..

but the new build is working in ie6 and 7, but is wery buggy so wont ewen beta
release it right now. but i will ofcurse replace the new mod with this, when its ready.

Thanks for your reply, but that screenshot I linked to is IE8 running in Vista, not an older browser.

More importantly can you, or anyone, tell me how I can get the new navbar tabs to display to visitors not logged in?

On my test site I’ve added navbar links for ‘What’s On’ & ‘Eating Out’, but as you can see they are not showing up to visitors: http://test.doctorwatson.info/content.php

This is a problem I have in IE/Chrome & Firefox.

[Vaupell]

did you remember to set usergroup acces for each tab ?

think be default its : 2,5,6,7

but you need to add ,1 if you want guests to see them..

so it ends up as 2,5,6,7,1

[is_it_me]

Originally Posted by Vaupell

did you remember to set usergroup acces for each tab ?

think be default its : 2,5,6,7

but you need to add ,1 if you want guests to see them..

so it ends up as 2,5,6,7,1

I knew it would be something simple - excellent, thank you so much.

Still weird that it's displaying differently in IE8 on XP and IE8 on Vista, I've never come across anything like that - another reason to hate IE!

[is_it_me]

Any suggestions as to how I can put a tab between the 'Home' and 'Forum' VB tabs?

I've tried allsorts but can't get them to drop in between those two.

What I want is:

HOME [Eating-Out] FORUM [What's On] WHAT'S NEW

http://doctorwatson.info/content.php

[KURTZ]

hi, there is a trouble if we use a darker skin, we can't see the link in the subnav ... any suggestion? thx

[Vaupell]

Originally Posted by KURTZ

hi, there is a trouble if we use a darker skin, we can't see the link in the subnav ... any suggestion? thx

Completely rebuild the product now..

And it have changed alot, including allowing color changes etc..

Just download version 1.1 or newer, and its fine.

[steven s]

Will this work with the CMS navbar too?

[Vaupell]

Originally Posted by steven s

Will this work with the CMS navbar too?

Ur profile says
<------------ 3.7.4 pl1

so no.. this is vb4 only.
And it adds those big buttons to the navbar on all pages
where navbar is included. if ur talking about the vb3 style navbar small text only
then no.. this is tabs!