How do I link to parent forum?

[SimpleFTA]

Hi guys,
I'm trying to add a nav link to the parent forum of the thread being viewed. I've already added a "Home" link but I can't figure out the link structure for the parent forum. This is what I currently have...

and I'm looking for it to be...

<<Prev Thread | Home | [Parent_forum_name] | Next Thread >>

any ideas? Thanks in advance.

-James

[Da-Vinci]

This may help, here is the code used for the Navbit in the Navbar template.

<vb:if condition="$show['breadcrumb']">
	<li class="navbit"><a href="{vb:raw nav_url}">{vb:raw nav_title}</a></li>
<vb:else />
	<li class="navbit lastnavbit"><span>{vb:raw nav_title}</span></li>
</vb:if>

Let me know how you get on with this, I might add this to my own forum.

[Da-Vinci]

This may help, here is the code used for the Navbit in the navbar_link template.

<vb:if condition="$show['breadcrumb']">
	<li class="navbit"><a href="{vb:raw nav_url}">{vb:raw nav_title}</a></li>
<vb:else />
	<li class="navbit lastnavbit"><span>{vb:raw nav_title}</span></li>
</vb:if>

[SimpleFTA]

Hi Da-Vinci, I appreciate the response but I haven't been able to achieve this as of yet. I tried the recommendation you provided (I had already tried it but I tried it again anyways) but for some reason it doesn't work. I might be missing something. FYI I'm editing the following code in the SHOWTHREAD template;

	<vb:if condition="$nextthreadinfo">
	<a href="{vb:link thread, {vb:raw nextthreadinfo}}">{vb:raw nextthreadinfo.title}</a>
	<strong>&raquo;</strong>
	</vb:if>
	<vb:else />
	<strong>&laquo;</strong>
	<a href="{vb:link thread, {vb:raw thread}, "goto=nextoldest"}" rel="nofollow">{vb:rawphrase prev_thread}</a>
	| <a href="{vb:link forumhome}">Home</a> | 
	<a href="{vb:link thread, {vb:raw thread}, "goto=nextnewest"}" rel="nofollow">{vb:rawphrase next_thread}</a>
	<strong>&raquo;</strong>
	</vb:if>

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I think I found the problem but I don't know how to fix it. This code should work...

<a href="forumdisplay.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}&amp;f={vb:raw foruminfo.forumid}">Parent Forum</a>

but for some reason... {vb:raw foruminfo.forumid} ...isn't replacing the forum id. Any thoughts?

[SimpleFTA]

I got this to work as seen below. However, I was unable to figure out how to display the title of the parent forum so I'm simply using "Thread List". Would really like to fix this if anyone has ideas.

	<vb:if condition="$nextthreadinfo">
	<a href="{vb:link thread, {vb:raw nextthreadinfo}}">{vb:raw nextthreadinfo.title}</a>
	<strong>&raquo;</strong>
	</vb:if>
	<vb:else />
	<strong>&laquo;</strong>
	<a href="{vb:link thread, {vb:raw thread}, "goto=nextoldest"}" rel="nofollow">{vb:rawphrase prev_thread}</a>
	| <a href="{vb:link forumhome}">Home</a> | <a href="forumdisplay.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}&amp;f={vb:raw thread.forumid}">Thread List</a> | 
	<a href="{vb:link thread, {vb:raw thread}, "goto=nextnewest"}" rel="nofollow">{vb:rawphrase next_thread}</a>
	<strong>&raquo;</strong>
	</vb:if>

[SimpleFTA]

Hi all, I was able to accomplish my original idea by simply preregistering the variable 'foruminfo' for the SHOWTHREAD template and using the following code;

<a href="forumdisplay.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}&amp;f={vb:raw thread.forumid}">{vb:raw foruminfo.title}</a>

-James

[Da-Vinci]

Glad you got it sorted, good to know how you done it as well