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Additional navbar with dropdowns · **Released**: 12-25-2007

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:

Code:

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

Below that place:

Code:

$navbar2

5B. On top of forums tables:
Find:

Code:

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

Below that place:

Code:

$navbar2

5C. Top of current navbar:
Find:

Code:

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

Above that add:

Code:

$navbar2

5D. Under your header:
Find:

Code:

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

Below that add:

Code:

$navbar2

5E. Under VB navbar:
Find:

Code:

<!-- / nav buttons bar -->

Below that add:

Code:

$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.

Poppet · #62 04-13-2008, 09:46 AM

Just installed it on 3.7 RC3 and it works great.

myown · #63 05-04-2008, 05:53 PM

what about 3.7 Gold did it worked?

attroll · #64 05-04-2008, 07:47 PM

I installed this in 3.7 Gold and it works fine.

odln018 · #65 05-07-2008, 03:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by attroll

You say you have a second navbar in your header now. Then it is obviously working if it is displaying a second navbar.

Is this working or could you explain a little more?

I can't believe I overlooked this.

I've got a custom skin, that uses images as buttons, I can't seem to get the second navbar to incorporate these images. I can provide a link to the site via PM if you like.,

attroll · #66 05-07-2008, 04:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by odln018

I can't believe I overlooked this.

I've got a custom skin, that uses images as buttons, I can't seem to get the second navbar to incorporate these images. I can provide a link to the site via PM if you like.,

If you want to PM me and send me the navbar2 that your trying to use, I will see if I can figure it out.

Jason Buchanan · #67 05-17-2008, 05:06 AM

I am using the default style and when I try to get the 5A results it looks more like 5C? Any ideas?

Trickle · #68 05-17-2008, 05:30 PM

For 5D it took me some time but its not located in the header as suggested. I had to add $navbar2 in my navbar template. Using VB 3.7.0 Gold.

Trickle · #69 05-17-2008, 06:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by powerful_rogue

Just wanted to say that its working great apart from in a few sections of my forum.

Im running ibProArcade and when you enter the arcade the navbar does not show.
Im also using VbAdvance CMPS - Ive added the navbar2 into the global variables, however the drop down links dont show.

Apart from that it works nicely

Getting the same problems as mentioned above.
Tried the arcade functions.php idea and no go still
Checked the vba CMPS and the Process PHP File Modules Within A Function was already checked yes.

You mentioned about reverting vbulletin templates....which one?

Thanks

Edit:Well I'm confused as all hell. I know its got to be something simple. On my CMPS page its missing the second nav bar but I did notice that the arcade link is wrong. I can't figure out how to edit it correctly to have forums/arcade.php

Edit: Ok so now I uninstalled CMPS and reinstalled it and that fixed my missing double navbar issue. I also added arcade.php to my 'Navbar Replacements' under 'Global vBadvanced Settings' in the 'vBadvanced CMPS Options' in your Admin Cpanel BUT I am still having issues with the ibproarcade not showing a double nav bar.

Trickle · #70 05-20-2008, 02:54 AM

Must have been a space in there some where from letting it work properly. I copied and pasted this time instead of manually adding it and it worked? Go figure.

How about a hint to get it to show up when I click on the new post link when there isn't any new posts?

Thanks

redlabour · #71 05-20-2008, 10:32 AM

Useless if the Links are not editable from a real AdminCP Menu.

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