Forum Jump in Navbar

This adds a dropdown menu on the navbar which contains all the links found in the forumjump that apears on certain pages. Note the forumjump must be enabled in the ACP for this to work. See the attached screenshot.

In your phpinclude_start template OR in global.php (if you have lots of styles you may want to do one edit to global.php instead of editing styles) after:

PHP Code:

$logincode = construct_login_code(); 


Add (or place in the phpinclude_start template, do one or the other):

PHP Code:

$donavjump = true;
construct_forum_jump();
$navjump = $forumjump;
unset($donavjump, $forumjump, $jumpforumbits, $optionselected, $usecategories, $jumpforumid, $jumpforumtitle, $curforumid, $daysprune, $defaultselected); 


Replace the contents of your forumjump template with:

<if condition="$GLOBALS['donavjump']">
	<!-- navjump menu -->
	<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="navjump_menu" style="display:none">
		<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
			<tr><td class="thead">$vbphrase[site_areas]</td></tr>
			<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]forumid=cp">$vbphrase[user_control_panel]</a></td></tr>
			<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]forumid=pm">$vbphrase[private_messages]</a></td></tr>
			<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]forumid=subs">$vbphrase[subscriptions]</a></td></tr>
			<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]forumid=wol">$vbphrase[whos_online]</a></td></tr>
			<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]forumid=search">$vbphrase[search_forums]</a></td></tr>
			<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]forumid=home">$vbphrase[forums_home]</a></td></tr>	
			<tr><td class="thead">$vbphrase[forums]</td></tr>	
			$jumpforumbits
		</table>
	</div>
	<!-- / navjump menu -->
<else />
<div class="smallfont" style="text-align:$stylevar[left]; white-space:nowrap">
	<form action="forumdisplay.php" method="get">
	<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />
	<input type="hidden" name="daysprune" value="$daysprune" />
	<strong>$vbphrase[forum_jump]</strong><br />
	<select name="f" onchange="this.form.submit();">
		<optgroup label="$vbphrase[site_areas]">
			<option value="-1" $defaultselected>$vbphrase[please_select_one]</option>
			<option value="cp" $frmjmpsel[usercp]>$vbphrase[user_control_panel]</option>
			<option value="pm" $frmjmpsel[pm]>$vbphrase[private_messages]</option>
			<option value="subs" $frmjmpsel[subs]>$vbphrase[subscriptions]</option>
			<option value="wol" $frmjmpsel[wol]>$vbphrase[whos_online]</option>
			<option value="search" $frmjmpsel[search]>$vbphrase[search_forums]</option>
			<option value="home" $frmjmpsel[home]>$vbphrase[forums_home]</option>
			<option value="-1">--------------------</option>
		</optgroup>
		<optgroup label="$vbphrase[forums]">
		$jumpforumbits
		</optgroup>
	</select>$gobutton
	</form>
</div>
</if>

Replace the contents of your option template with:

<if condition="$GLOBALS['donavjump']">
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]forumid=$optionvalue">$optiontitle</a></td></tr>
<else />
<option value="$optionvalue" class="$optionclass" $optionselected>$optiontitle</option>
</if>

In your navbar template add:

<if condition="$vboptions['useforumjump']">
<td id="navjump" class="vbmenu_control"><a href="#navjump">$vbphrase[forum_jump]</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("navjump"); </script></td>
</if>

Where you want the link to the forum jump to appear.

Still in the navbar template add:

<if condition="$vboptions['useforumjump']">
$GLOBALS[navjump]
</if>

Before:

<!-- / NAVBAR POPUP MENUS -->

[sv1cec]

Nice hack, just installed it.

However, I noticed that it does not evaluate the permissions of the user, in order to show the proper forums. I have a forum which is viewable only by the admin and the mods and it does not show up in the list.

Of course, neither does the normal Forum Jump, but do you have any idea where that forums list is constructed to see if I can alter it to include admin/mod only forums, depending on the user?

Tnx and congrats
---------
John

[Lionel]

For those of us who have vbadvanced, how do you hardcode the various forums?

[cnczone]

Where do I place to code in the navbar template????

[firstimecaller]

any chance of getting this ported to 3.5.x as a plugin?

[prettyboi]

OMG this is what I have been waiting for. Okay, I understand about the jump forum but is there anyways I can make it to where it just say FORUM instead of Jump Forum?

[firstimecaller]

just change the link text

edit: to do this, change the

$vbphrase[forum_jump]

with whatever you want it to say

[firstimecaller]

Originally Posted by firstimecaller

any chance of getting this ported to 3.5.x as a plugin?

seriously, this is the best implementation of this type of hack I've yet seen. can we get it working for 3.5.x ?

[firstimecaller]

OK, if you are running 3.5.x, seems this works fine if you use the plugin system to put the phpinclude_start part into a global start hook. This template doesn't exist for 3.5.x

enjoy!

[nelto]

Originally Posted by firstimecaller

OK, if you are running 3.5.x, seems this works fine if you use the plugin system to put the phpinclude_start part into a global start hook.

Care to explain this a bit more detailed?

Thank you.

[firstimecaller]

Originally Posted by nelto

Care to explain this a bit more detailed?

Thank you.

I'll try.

The part that is supposed to go into the phpinclude_start template is:

PHP Code:

$donavjump = true;
construct_forum_jump();
$navjump = $forumjump;
unset($donavjump, $forumjump, $jumpforumbits, $optionselected, $usecategories, $jumpforumid, $jumpforumtitle, $curforumid, $daysprune, $defaultselected); 


so you take that part and make a new plugin

AdminCP>PluginSystem>Plugin Manager
hit link at bottom of page to add new plugin
Leave product as vBulletin
hook location is global_start
give it a title you can remember, like forum menu
then put all the above code in the code box. the rest of the mod you do just like the rest of the instructions.

This change is necessary because the new plugin system in 3.5.x has removed the php_include templates.

Hope that helps