[HowTo] navbar tweak > Turn UserCP into a dropdown

How To > Optimize the navbar!

Tweak > Turn the "User CP" link into a drop down

Description:

With this template modification I will teach you how to optimize the navbar with a little tweak. We will turn the usercp link into a drop down, remove the links from the quick links drop down and put them in the usercp drop down.

This is for version 3.0.3

Installation:

* Goto the Admin Control Panel as Administrator

* Goto the Styles & Templates group and open the Style Manager

* Open your navbar template and apply the following changes:

# Find this code, and remove it:

<tr><td class="thead"><a href="usercp.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[user_control_panel]</a></td></tr>
<if condition="$show['siglink']"><tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editsignature">$vbphrase[edit_signature]</a></td></tr></if>
<if condition="$show['avatarlink']"><tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editavatar">$vbphrase[edit_avatar]</a></td></tr></if>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editprofile">$vbphrase[edit_profile]</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editoptions">$vbphrase[edit_options]</a></td></tr>

# Now find this code, and remove it:

<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$bbuserinfo[userid]">$vbphrase[my_profile]</a></td></tr>

# Now find this code:

<!-- / NAVBAR POPUP MENUS -->

# Above that, on a new line, add this code:

<if condition="$show['member']">
<!-- user cp drop down menu -->
<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="cpuser_menu" style="display:none">
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
<tr><td class="thead"><a href="usercp.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[user_control_panel]</a></td></tr>
<if condition="$show['siglink']"><tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editsignature">$vbphrase[edit_signature]</a></td></tr></if>
<if condition="$show['avatarlink']"><tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editavatar">$vbphrase[edit_avatar]</a></td></tr></if>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editprofile">$vbphrase[edit_profile]</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editoptions">$vbphrase[edit_options]</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$bbuserinfo[userid]">$vbphrase[my_profile]</a></td></tr>
 
</table>
</div>
<!-- / user cp drop down menu -->
</if>

# Find this code:

<if condition="$show['member']">
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="usercp.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[user_cp]</a></td>
</if>

# And replace it with this code:

<if condition="$show['member']">
<if condition="$show['popups']">
	<td id="cpuser" class="vbmenu_control"><a href="#cpuser">$vbphrase[user_cp]</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("cpuser"); </script></td>
<else />
	<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="usercp.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[user_cp]</a></td>
</if>
</if>
 

# Save the navbar template and you are done!

[kbothe]

hmmm....i tried to install it but its kinda messed up hehe

- www.vb-designz.com/cmps_index.php

[kbothe]

oh yes, do you think it has anything to do with vbAdvanced or did i make an error?

[Floris]

It is created on a fresh 3.0.3 installation. I have no idea if it works when there are hacks installed. Or if it works on older versions.

[mholtum]

Originally Posted by Crysis

hmmm....i tried to install it but its kinda messed up hehe

- www.vb-designz.com/cmps_index.php

None of your links work, you need to add /forums/ in front of them. Just like I had to do in my themes

[Natch]

or, like you have to with all portals outside the forumroot, prefix your links with $vboptions[bburl]/

[kbothe]

Originally Posted by mholtum

None of your links work, you need to add /forums/ in front of them. Just like I had to do in my themes

i know hehe

[kbothe]

Originally Posted by floris

It is created on a fresh 3.0.3 installation. I have no idea if it works when there are hacks installed. Or if it works on older versions.

i wish you would have told me that in the first post lol

[imported_beano33]

Very nice, it's a lot more intuitive done this way.

I also added Scott's My Cookies Script to the UserCP dropdown as it gets a lot of use and now it's in a handy place.

Download and upload the script to your board per instructions:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showp...14&postcount=1

In Phrase Manager Add new Global phrase:
Varname: clear_my_cookies
Text: Clear My Cookies

Then tack this onto the end of the code you previously added above

<!-- / NAVBAR POPUP MENUS -->

<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="mycookies.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$bbuserinfo[userid]">$vbphrase[clear_my_cookies]</a></td></tr>

[Dan]

Nice mod floris Thank you for sharing it with us!