Mini Mods - Navbar Tabs for CMS Sections

*********** obsolete from VB 4.2 - see my post #24 for the much better way of doing it using Andreas' extension to the new Nav Manager *************

The lack of ability to put links to CMS sections as tabs in the Navbar seems a bizarre oversight, however... solved to some extent although pretty clunky:

This will work if you are adding navbar tabs for a top level section, ie. one that is not a sub section of your CMS home. That tab will then become 'selected' for that section, subsections and articles. It can probably we adapted for other situations.

Anything in CAPS below needs to be filled in with your own values.

Firstly you need to get the top level section ID (we have sub sections so just the section id is not enough) as a variable available to the Navbar and vbcms_navbar_link templates. The only way I have found to get this is to take the first item in the breadcrumb array. The plugin to do this is:

Hook: vbcms_content_populate_start

global $bci;
$bci = $this->content->getBreadcrumbInfo();
vB_Template::preRegister('navbar',array('top_parent' => $bci[0]['nodeid']));
vB_Template::preRegister('vbcms_navbar_link',array('top_parent' => $bci[0]['nodeid']));

Now we need a new tab for our section. Creating a tab is described in various places on vb.org, but in a nutshell the plugin is:

location: process_templates_complete

global $bci;
$tabselected = ''; 
$tablinks = ''; 
if ($bci[0]['nodeid'] == YOUR SECTION ID) 
{ 
    $vbulletin->options['selectednavtab']='UNIQUENAME'; 
    $tabselected = ' class="selected"'; 
}
$template_hook['navtab_end'] .= '<li'.$tabselected.'><a class="navtab" href="LINK TO YOUR SECTION">YOUR SECTION</a></li>' ;

now you just need to disable the highlighting on the home tab for your section of the CMS. This is done by editing the template vbcms_navbar_link, and making the <li class="selected"> near the top as conditional. Change the existing <li class="selected"> to:

<vb:if condition="$top_parent != YOUR SECTION ID">
<li class="selected">
<vb:else />
<li>
</vb:if>

You can of course do multiple sections in this way by editing that condition to include all the top level section ids (!= a AND != b AND !=c...) where you don't want the 'Home' tab selected.

The screenshot shows the Reviews section of my site, with the various subsections appearing in the submenu area. This tab remains highlighted throughout the Reviews section, subsections and articles.

[lild100]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Good luck!

Did you get my email?

[Ramjet79]

Hello. I am having a little trouble. I've got the plugins created, and can get a new tab to show up and to be clickable to it's proper destination.

However, I am having trouble with the highlighting, and the sub-sections showing up.

Right now, The HOME tab stays highlighted, and the default sections are displayed, rather than the sub-sections for the selected cms section.

I suspect it is a problem with my implementation of the code into the vbcms_navbar_link template.

I guess I am doing it wrong. Would someone mind pasting a working version of their "vbcms_navbar_link" template that I can reference to see why the tab is not being selected properly?

Thanks very much for anyone's help.

[hqarrse]

Mine is this:

<vb:if condition="$vboptions['selectednavtab'] == 'vbcms'">
<vb:if condition="$top_parent != 248 AND $top_parent != 357 AND $top_parent != 251 AND $top_parent != 255">
<li class="selected">
<vb:else />
<li>
</vb:if>
....
....

[hqarrse]

This hack is obsolete from V 4.2 and using this mod to extend the navigation manager:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=283123

To make sub-sections highlight their parent section, just multiple select the sub-sections and the parent section in the 'Sections' listbox when adding a new tab in the admin panel.

The code mods in my hack can be safely removed. The template mod in vbcms_navbar_link should be removed.

Thanks to the VB team and Andreas for a flexible navigation system and the extension. It is a real pleasure to see the end of my hack!