Users Can create their own drop down list in navbar

This hack is part of Lesson #6 of my Using the PHPINCLUDE_START template" tutorial thread. It is presented here individually. While techinically a user feature, it is put here with mini-mods since it requires no code edits. Instead you have 2 template edits: navbar and phpinclude_start. You must also add a user profile field.

For a more complete explaination of the code please visit the tutorial thread.

AND NOW THE HACK...

To begin create a user profile field that is multiple text lines and has a character limit of at least 2000. Note the user profile field # the system assigns to the new field - you'll need it below.

Once you do that crack into your navbar and look for this code:

			<!-- nav buttons bar -->
				<div align="center">
					<table class="thead" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
						<tr align="center">
							<if condition="$show['popups']">

Immediately after add.

								<if condition="!empty($mylinks)">
									<td id="mylinks" class="vbmenu_control"><a href="#mylinks">My Links</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("mylinks"); </script></td>		
								</if>

Next look for this code in the navbar

	<!-- / NAVBAR POPUP MENUS -->

Immediately above it insert the following code

<if condition="!empty($mylinks)">
<!-- My Links Menu -->
	<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="mylinks_menu" style="display:none"> 
 		<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0"> 
			$mylinks
		</table> 
	</div>
<!-- /My Links -->
</if>

Now insert the following into PHPINCLUDE_START at either the very start or the very end.

PHP Code:

if (!empty($bbuserinfo['fieldX']))
    {
    require_once('./includes/functions_bbcodeparse.php');
    $mylinks = parse_bbcode2($bbuserinfo['fieldX'], 0, 0, 0, 1);
    $mylinks = str_replace('<br />', '', $mylinks);
    $mylinks = str_replace('</a>', '</a></td></tr>', $mylinks);
    $mylinks = str_replace('<a', '<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a', $mylinks);    
    } 


You will need to plug the correct user profile field # into the spot occupied by "fieldX" above. So if your new profile field created above was field #9 you'd refer to $bbuserinfo['field9']

And with that you're done. Enjoy.

Compatibility Note
If you are running a version of vbulletin prior to version 3.0.3 you'll need to run a database query in order to have field lengths longer than 250 characters. This query is:

ALTER TABLE userfield MODIFY COLUMN fieldX TEXT

You'll need to change fieldX to the field# appropriate to your forums.

[Benj]

any way i could add to this so i could have [band]bandname[/band] and bandname forwards to www.mysite.com/bandname any ideas ?

[mfarmerhi]

Hm... I can't seem to get this working...

I'm running vB 3.0.7, w/VbAdvanced CMPS. My nav bar was moved to my header.

I can get the MyLinks link displaying correctly, but when clicked on, no pop up.

An ideas what may be going on?

[mfarmerhi]

Alright... my bad. Musta been tired last night at 4:30 am when I was trying to install this...

Works fine upon re-install.

Great hack. Thanks.

[Gutspiller]

If the users don't insert any text into the field, does the menu still show up or is it completely hidden? This doesn't add a query to ever page that has the navbar does it?

[beano33]

Can anyone advise on how to add this for 3.5? Thanks

[michaelbenson]

Originally Posted by beano33

Can anyone advise on how to add this for 3.5? Thanks

Ditto

[RZ500]

Originally Posted by michaelbenson

Ditto

Same here. :nervous:

[Benj]

Originally Posted by RZ500

Same here. :nervous:

i 12th that

[havefun]

would be fine THX

[suryoyena]

Hey bro's,

whats the current step with this mod?
I need this stuff for my community

Greets: Chris