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.

[attroll]

Originally Posted by powerful_rogue

Thanks for the reply

The arcade alteration worked a wonder. Thank you

Ive checked my CMPS setting and already had it set to yes.:erm: - Any other ideas at all?

Did you try doing this?

vBadvance CMPS using vB 3.5 or higher. To get this working with the homepage you will have to do the following.

Go into your ADMINCP-->vBa CPMS-->Default Setting-->Portal Output Global Variables and add navbar2 in the block there and save it.

[attroll]

Ah, I just upgraded one of my sites to VB 3.7 tonight and I just remembered I had the same problem with both the navbar and navbar2 navigation bars. I had to revert vBulletins template and then insert $navbar2 back into it and then it worked.

[edytwinky]

For some reason it keeps showing above my main navbar. I can't get it to appear below my main navbar.

[attroll]

Originally Posted by edytwinky

For some reason it keeps showing above my main navbar. I can't get it to appear below my main navbar.

Find:

<!-- / nav buttons bar -->

Below that add:

$navbar2

[edytwinky]

Do I put this in my navbar template?

If so I did that and it's appearing below my main navbar but then the advanced search box appears right underneath that.

[attroll]

Originally Posted by edytwinky

Do I put this in my navbar template?

If so I did that and it's appearing below my main navbar but then the advanced search box appears right underneath that.

Yes in the navbar template.

I don't understand what you mean by the advanced search box appearing right under that.

[edytwinky]

Here's what i mean:



There's a space between the two navbars and then the search thing is below that.

[attroll]

Originally Posted by edytwinky

Here's what i mean:



There's a space between the two navbars and then the search thing is below that.

Something is not right in you navbar2 template I think. Send me a PM and I will send you my email so you can send me your navbar2 template and I will have a look.

[s3nt3nc3d]

Edited: I am an idiot and have fixed my issue. Thanks for this little hack. I've been trying to get my custom drop-downs working for over a week and this finally helped me accomplish that.

[accessdeniedzzz]

where can i edit the links ?