Miscellaneous Hacks - Additional navbar with dropdowns

After upgrading and supporting my 3.0.0 and 3.5.3 version of this hack, I have decided it was time to step into the plugin world to make this easier for people to use.

Despite what category this is in it works with vBulletin 3.0 up to the most recent version of 3.8.

What this does is create another navbar with drop down menus by typing $navbar2 in any of your templates. It is just like the navbar that comes with VB.

I put a lot of description tags in the navbar2 template that gets installed to help explain what everything does. Once you understand what is going on here you can removed these. With very little modifications you can add to, remove or move items around in this additional navbar.

Upgrade
To upgrade you will want to reimport this XML file and edit your options accordingly.



1.02

• Tweak it a bit to get the border on the top of the navbar. There was not boarder on the top of the navbar in the previous version. It was not really noticeable unless you have the navbar directly below the header area.

1.01

• removed the plugin with the Hook "parse_templates" because it was not need.
• Added plugin with the Hook ?global_start?, this will work with, PhotoPlog, vBAdvanced, Arcade. This will alleviate having to manually add code in the php files as was required in the past.

1.00

• Initial release.

To install the this
1. Download the zipped file.

2. Unzip the file.

3. Import the product-navbar2.xml into your Plugins & Products? Manage Plugins.

4. Next you will have to decide where you want the navbar2 to be displayed. I have included a few options below.

5A. Under current (original) Navigation bar:
Find:

<!-- / breadcrumb, login, pm info -->

Below that place:

$navbar2

5B. On top of forums tables:
Find:

<!-- / PAGENAV POPUP -->
</if>

Below that place:

$navbar2

5C. Top of current navbar:
Find:

<br />
<!-- breadcrumb, login, pm info -->

Above that add:

$navbar2

5D. Under your header:
Find:

<br />
<!-- breadcrumb, login, pm info -->

Below that add:

$navbar2

5E. Under VB navbar:
Find:

<!-- / nav buttons bar -->

Below that add:

$navbar2

Note:
This should now work with vBAdvance CMPS, Arcade, PhotoPlog with no other modifications. Many thanks to Mike-D for his help with this.

[TC Topps]

Yes, That is it!

Thanks!

[attroll]

Originally Posted by TC Topps

Yes, That is it!

Thanks!

Wow, that would require some work, but I can not understand why you would want to do that.

[TC Topps]

Attroll;

In my mind I was thinking that there would be a finer integration and less work to accomplish same tasks in my custom skins. But I have been rethinking my navbar "philosopy!"

1. I will leave the original vB Navbar as an Administrative Navbar since custom skins are getting most of the job done.

2. I will make your "Navbar2" specific to the structured Project and Blog side of Forum

3. I will make your replicated "Navbar 4" specific to casual Forum activity!

That will separate out the confusion as to the purpose of each.

Many thanks for your getting back to me!

My best regards,
TC Topps

[Vaupell]

<if condition="$show[guest]">$navbar2</if>

Cant remember the condition for specifik usergroups, but i bet i would go the same way
just replace the [guest] with ehhmmm usergroupID syntax, better ask someone for syntax.

But i think u can use [member] as a syntax aswell.. its the same way the register botton
is displayed or hidden.

and i guess rename additional navbars..

[Furcal15]

Beautiful! One of my most favorite hacks!!!

Check it out in action at my forum - www.sideline-sports.com

[VikesRule]

Ok I'm loving this mod but I have two questions:

1) Is there anyway I can align the dropdown menus so the leftmost portion of the dropdown aligns with the original link that you click on? Basically I want the dropdowns to work like they do on the default navbar with the alignment.
2) Is there anyway I can make my dropdowns function to where they have two levels of dropability (I think I made that up, haha). I basically want to be able to make them like this site:
http://www.prosportsdaily.com/forums/index.php
Move the mouse over to the "Forums" link on the navbar, see how the original links in the dropdown, like Baseball, Basketball, etc. can branch off to the right to even more links? Is there someway I can do that?

Thanks for a great hack though!

[Dr.LoVe]

than you good job

i have faq

how about if i want to Disable some Section in this navbar ???

[Outbackmark]

Works well with 3.8.2 - Great Job!!!!

[ade5675]

Nice work

and it is superb with version 3.8.3

:up:

[Parture]

The drop down boxes don't work in firefox (they never worked as best as I can tell),
http://biblocality.com/forums/

Compare using Internet Explorer and Firefox.