multiple navbar versions for different sections of site

[kh99]

Originally Posted by doob

Is there any way to figure out what hook a default template is on? In this case the navbar template.

I'm not sure how to answer that because templates aren't "on hooks", at least the way I understand things. It's possible that you're just using the words differently. In any case, the navbar template is different as compared to the header template, for instance, because the header template is created in one place for all pages but the navbar template isn't. So that makes what you want to do a little difficult. The only thing to do, in my opinion, when you're trying to do anything of any coplexity, is to look at the vb code to see how it works and where the hook locations are.

It might be possible for you to include extra navbar templates by creating a plugin at cache_templates and adding your custom templates to the $globaltemplates array, then replace the navbar template in the template cache at the global_start hook. Something like:

cache_templates:

$globaltemplates = array_merge($globaltemplates, array('custom_navbar_1', 'custom_navbar_2'));

global_start:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread') {
   $vbulletin->templatecache['navbar'] = $vbulletin->templatecache['custom_navbar_1'];
}
else if  (THIS_SCRIPT == 'forumdisplay') {
   $vbulletin->templatecache['navbar'] = $vbulletin->templatecache['custom_navbar_2'];
}

I haven't actually tried the above so it's a bit of a guess.

BTW, I see you started a couple other threads with these questions, which is fine - I'll leave those to someone else who might be able to give you a better answer.