Miscellaneous Hacks - Sidebar Anywhere (Formerly Sidebar for Activity Stream) by BOP5

Brought to you by BirdOPrey5
www.Qapla.com

Version 2.2.0

The new Activity Stream for VB 4.2.0 is very nice but it feels like it is missing something- and what it is missing is a sidebar. Ideally at some point VB will release a custom sidebar built just for the Activity Stream but until then this quick mod will let you use the built in forum sidebar on the Activity Stream.

As of version 2.0 besides just working on the Activity Stream the mod can now add a sidebar to ANY vBulletin page including forums, threads, groups, albums, who's online, forum leaders, and more. In fact you can easily add the sidebar even to custom pages from custom mods.

New Features

• Now works on ANY vBulletin Page (except blogs which have their own sidebar)
• Option to align sidebar with page content or top of page
• Option to Disable Sidebar Collapse Option (By Usergroup in 2.1.0)
• Collapsed sidebar state now "remembered" on different pages
• Option to enable Sidebar by Usergroup
• Option to disable Sidebar by Forum (if enabled for forums/threads)
• Option to disable Sidebar in specific styles
• Options to disable sidebars if mobile devices detected*

NOTE: To enable mobile device detection options you must install the Mobile Browser Detector mod.

Live Demo: Qapla.com Activity Stream

You can enable or disable the Sidebar Anywhere independently of the forum sidebar but they will both display the same content (blocks.)

NEW - If you need to have different blocks on different pages check out this add-on.

You must have at least 1 block setup and active for the sidebar to show.

Unlike most of my other mods this mod is enabled by default upon installation. Be default it is setup to show only on the Activity Stream and register.php pages.

I am aware there is already a mod out there "Everywhere Sidebar" by another coder. This is completely different code and I made this because my "Staff Online Sideblock" mod did not work on Sidebar Everywhere but it does work on this mod.

This mod requires at least VB 4.2.0 to work on the Activity Stream but should work on older VB 4.x.x versions on other pages.

Full view of admin cp options: http://www.qapla.com/mods/ss/sidebar...tings_full.jpg.

The old version Zip file Sidebar for Activity Stream by BOP5 v11.zip works only on the Activity Stream.

PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS INCLUDED WITH THIS MOD- THEY ANSWER MOST OF THE QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW TO USE IT.

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[moonfox]

Looks very nice!

I tried it but on my custom style I have sidebar width var set to 300px (because of ads I have that are that width). It works on forum home but on all other pages shows as the default 270px. Let me know if I am missing something.

I reverted to using everywhere sidebar. It has an option within the mod cp to set sidebar width.

[moonfox]

I am also getting the vertical collapse button in my custom style with your mod. I don't get this in ESB although I don't remember if I had to change anything to achieve this, and there is no setting in ESB mentioning it.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by moonfox

I am also getting the vertical collapse button in my custom style with your mod. I don't get this in ESB although I don't remember if I had to change anything to achieve this, and there is no setting in ESB mentioning it.

Add the following to additionalcss.css

#sidebar_button_link {
display:none !important;
} 

#sidebar_container a.collapse {
display: none !important;
}

[karlm]

Option in ACP for width would be good to implement in future release..cough cough

[djbaxter]

True. But that's not gonna help that cough of yours...

In the meantime:

AdminCP -> Style Manager -> Style Variable Editor -> Sidebar -> forum_sidebar_width

and repeat for cms and blog if you have the suite and use those elements.

[BirdOPrey5]

OK width will be picked up off the stylevar in the next version- will look into implemented a disable for vertical collapse as well.

[tpearl5]

BOP, would consider adding the ability to specify different blocks based on "THIS SCRIPT ="?

[BirdOPrey5]

Not likely to happen, no idea how that code works.

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Not likely to happen, no idea how that code works.

It's just the code that identifies what pages are what. For example, showthread, index, etc.

[BirdOPrey5]

My bad- I understand how "THIS_SCRIPT" works- that is in most of my mods. I meant in my programming of this mod I didn't come across anything that would let me choose which forum-blocks load per page. I know everywhere sidebar has that option but at this moment I don't know how I would begin to implement such an option- truth be told this is a fairly simple mod all things considered- I was not planning on complicating it by allowing per-script options.