Mini Mods - Advanced Navbar Links

Author: Andrew Harmor
Version: 2.0.2
File Edits: 0
Template Edits: 2
Difficulty: Easy


Description:
You can add links or multiple menus to the navbar quickly through a form. Specify which usergroups can see each link via the permissions system.


F.A.Q.
Q: Why aren't the links showing?
A: Edit the link in your Admin CP and check the usergroup permissions

Q: All the links I made from the last version are gone
A: Go into phpmyadmin and select your vbulletin database.
Browse the table named "custom_droplinks". Change all the "catid's" with 0 to 1.
Go into your ACP --> Advanced Navbar Links --> Modify/Delete The links should show up under the first category. You can edit the links from here and select a different category to place it in.

Q: How do I get the links to appear on vBAdvanced?
A: Go into your ACP --> vBa CMPS --> Default Settings
Look for "Portal Output Global Variables". Add the following into the text area.

custom_singlelinks
custom_droplinks
custom_droplinks_cat

If you install this mod please press the "Install" button.

--Change Log--
1.0.0 - Initial Release

1.0.1 - took out the code that automatically added HTML to the navbar. I thought having it do it automatically was cool but can be annoying because you can't easily customize the class or placement

2.0.0 - Added the functionality to add multiple drop down menus

2.0.1 - Added missing table prefixes

[TrikkeTalk]

Originally Posted by dcasux

I love this hack..however, I cannot get the menu options to show up in ibproarcade.

ARCADE template has $navbar as the variable for the default navbar, and I removed that and placed $menucontrol in it's place, hoping that your menu would show up.

Alas, it didn't. Well, actually, the "Extras" showed up, but empty. No links showed up that are defined by me in your module in the ACP.

Any ideas on how to get consistancy in ibproarcade with your hack?

Hi All

Same problem over here. Is ther somebody who can help me out. In vbPortal I had the same problem but that's already solved by adding the entire content of the global_start plugin to the global.php of the portal. But I don't see how to solve this problem. The main links show up at the arcade but the added links aren't visible.

Is there anyone who can help me out?

Thanks in advance!

[criscokid]

Originally Posted by TrikkeTalk

In vbPortal I had the same problem but that's already solved by adding the entire content of the global_start plugin to the global.php of the portal.

That's the problem that I've been trying to solve... more detailed instructions are available here.

[TrikkeTalk]

Hi,

It's quite simple to do this:

Go to your AdminCP --> Plugins & Products --> Plugin Manager --> locate the Custom Links global_start plugin.

Copy al the content of this plugin and paste it to you vbPortal's global.php. the location to paste it is right above:

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That's it.

[BSchrader]

The forms in the screenshot are beautiful things but I cannot find them in vB3.6.4. How do I get them? (Do I need vBPortal?)

[SherryG]

Hiya guys,

Can someone tell me the proper way to uninstall this mod? I could not get this mod to work on my forum so I used the "Uninstall" button in the manage products section. It appeared to uninstall properly and the product name disappeared from the product list yet the "Custom Links" CP is still there. When I click on either "Add" or "Modify/Delete", I get the following database error message.

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.4:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM custom_droplinks WHERE linkid ORDER BY number ASC;

MySQL Error : Table 'stamkcom_forum.custom_droplinks' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Date : Saturday, February 17th 2007 @ 04:00:13 PM
Script : http://mysite.com/forum/admincp/admi....php?do=modify
Referrer : http://mysite.com/forum/admincp/index.php?do=nav
IP Address : myipaddress
Username : Sherry
Classname : vB_Database

Please help me solve this issue. I hate it when things don't work properly.

Cheers,
Sherry

[harmor19]

Originally Posted by SherryG

Hiya guys,

Can someone tell me the proper way to uninstall this mod? I could not get this mod to work on my forum so I used the "Uninstall" button in the manage products section. It appeared to uninstall properly and the product name disappeared from the product list yet the "Custom Links" CP is still there. When I click on either "Add" or "Modify/Delete", I get the following database error message.

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.4:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM custom_droplinks WHERE linkid ORDER BY number ASC;

MySQL Error : Table 'stamkcom_forum.custom_droplinks' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Date : Saturday, February 17th 2007 @ 04:00:13 PM
Script : http://mysite.com/forum/admincp/admi....php?do=modify
Referrer : http://mysite.com/forum/admincp/index.php?do=nav
IP Address : myipaddress
Username : Sherry
Classname : vB_Database

Please help me solve this issue. I hate it when things don't work properly.

Cheers,
Sherry

You have to remove the XML files from your server that are in the .zip file.

[PimvanJ]

Originally Posted by dcasux

I love this hack..however, I cannot get the menu options to show up in ibproarcade.

ARCADE template has $navbar as the variable for the default navbar, and I removed that and placed $menucontrol in it's place, hoping that your menu would show up.

Alas, it didn't. Well, actually, the "Extras" showed up, but empty. No links showed up that are defined by me in your module in the ACP.

Any ideas on how to get consistancy in ibproarcade with your hack?

try this:

open /arcade/functions/functions.php
search for

        global $header, $vbphrase, $vboptions, $stylevar, $headinclude, $bbuserinfo, $session, $show, $pmbox;

and replace it with

        global $header, $vbphrase, $vboptions, $stylevar, $headinclude, $bbuserinfo, $session, $show, $pmbox, $custom_droplinks;

(thanks to MrZeropage)

[Tri@de]

I tryed to find customlinks1 in style templates but there's not!
How i can remove extras?

[Neutral Singh]

How can modify this to add multiple drop-down menus in the navbar in addition to "Extras" drop down menu?

[harmor19]

Originally Posted by Neutral Singh

How can modify this to add multiple drop-down menus in the navbar in addition to "Extras" drop down menu?

I used to have the code but one of my hard drives crashed and I lost it. I don't know when I'll recode it.