How to copy the navbar?

[Lynne]

The eval line is php and you have it sitting in the middle of a bunch of html. You can probably put that eval line right after the require_once global.php line. Then, where you currently have the eval line, just put $navbar

[Zachery]

If you're trying to insert the vbulletin navbar into an external app, be aware the navbar won't look like it does in vB with its pretty drill down folder view or anything. You'll also haev to make that happen yourself for any page you include it on.

[Lynne]

I didn't even think of that Zachery, you are right. You would really need to include the $header and $headerinclude templates also. Basically, you would want to follow one of these articles and insert your wiki text into them - How to create your own vBulletin-powered page! (uses vB templates) or [How-To] vBulletin API Basics: Creating Custom Pages & Misc.

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by pjkcards

I have a Wiki installed as a sub-site of my forum. I want to create header so it looks very similar to the header of my forum, so users can navigate to the wiki without noticing too much of a difference. I have most of it complete, except I want the navbar displayed. It can be a custom navbar (HTML w/ links) that I will need to edit each time I add a link to the other navbar, but I simply want it to look the same. The navbar template has quite a bit of PHP (like if else statements) which would affect how the navbar looks. Hence, I am wondering if simply including the template would be easier. The navbar on my forum is actually built into the header, I can post the code if you can help me figure out what I need to do to make this work.

How would I go about this? Thanks!

would something like this help??

Demo: http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/demo.html

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=200686

Its html and an easy edit for your forum or alternative site

[pjkcards]

Originally Posted by Lynne

I didn't even think of that Zachery, you are right. You would really need to include the $header and $headerinclude templates also. Basically, you would want to follow one of these articles and insert your wiki text into them - How to create your own vBulletin-powered page! (uses vB templates) or [How-To] vBulletin API Basics: Creating Custom Pages & Misc.

Would I use these to include the $headericnlue and $header templates?:

PHP Code:

eval('$headerinclude = "' . fetch_template('headerinclude') . '";');  
eval('$header = "' . fetch_template('header') . '";'); 


After I have done that, along with what you mentioned in regards to the $navbar, would that make the navbar format nicely? Would I need to put $headerinclude and $header variables with my $navbar variable that you mentioned above?

As far as the two links you gave me, I have created several vB powered pages with content for Premium Memberships and whatnot. However, the wiki is in /wiki, so simply inserting my wiki homepage code into a vB powered powered page wouldn't work, I don't think, since that would make no changes to /wiki files.

Originally Posted by UKBusinessLive

would something like this help??

Demo: http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/demo.html

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=200686

Its html and an easy edit for your forum or alternative site

That is nice, however, it isn't what I need. I want to copy my navbar. By using what you have, I'd have to change my existing navbar as well. Thanks though.

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by pjkcards

Would I use these to include the $headericnlue and $header templates?:

PHP Code:

eval('$headerinclude = "' . fetch_template('headerinclude') . '";');  
eval('$header = "' . fetch_template('header') . '";'); 


After I have done that, along with what you mentioned in regards to the $navbar, would that make the navbar format nicely? Would I need to put $headerinclude and $header variables with my $navbar variable that you mentioned above?

I really don't know. I've never tried to do what you are doing. I think you are just going to have to do this by trial and error.

[pjkcards]

Okay. I tried what you suggested in post #21, and I get this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function query_first_slave() on a non-object in /home/user/public_html/domain/forum/includes/functions.php on line 1178

This seems like something that should be quite do-able. If I can at least make the navbar exist without errors, I can work toward formatting it. Why is the above error is occurring?

[Lynne]

I was thinking about this some more and realized even if you get the head/headinclude/navbar to print out on that page, the links may all be wrong since they are going to assume you are in the vb directory. You really may have a much easier time just copying the page source of the navbar from one of your forum pages and putting it in your wiki page.

[Dismounted]

Originally Posted by Lynne

the links may all be wrong since they are going to assume you are in the vb directory.

The HTML base element comes to save the day!

<base href="http://www.yoursite/forum" />

[Lynne]

Ah yes, I forgot about that (cuz it doesn't work on my test site - weird).

As for the error.... I'm not sure. Did you define the $navbits like in those articles I linked you to? I know those get used in the navbar and I'm not sure what would happen if you don't define them.