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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.

attroll · #**112** 06-27-2008, 05:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scarface Claw

Sorted, cheers bro.

You should probably make that part of the original XML

Yeah. I need to look into that to see what it actually does because like I said I had not problem with it. Yet some people have. it does not make sense.

wwolf27 · #**113** 06-27-2008, 05:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by attroll

I tried this and could not duplicate this problem. Someone else had this problem before and here is what someone suggested https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....8&postcount=25. I never heard whether it worked out not though.

I looked at the first line of code in the XML file and mine say 3.7.0 like that person suggested in the link you submitted. Unless I was looking at the incorrect thing. I am new to this..I fired the person who normally does this and now doing it on my own, a whole 8 days now.

attroll · #**114** 06-27-2008, 06:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wwolf27

I looked at the first line of code in the XML file and mine say 3.7.0 like that person suggested in the link you submitted. Unless I was looking at the incorrect thing. I am new to this..I fired the person who normally does this and now doing it on my own, a whole 8 days now.

Yeah, I just changed the XML file to reflect that so it should not happen to anyone again.

wwolf27 · #**115** 06-27-2008, 06:27 AM

o..ok, well I guess I will check back. I tried to go through it again tonight, still isn't working. Thanks for your time I greatly appreciate it.

Scarface Claw · #**116** 06-27-2008, 09:32 AM

wwolf, attroll has updated the XML to reflect the new change, so you need to download the new XML and try that one.

The new one should work for you.

I was vB newbie only a month ago dude, and now I know a bit, its pretty easy to learn, just hang in there.

EDIT:
Bloody good mod BTW, it's just what I have been needing, nominated for MotM.

wwolf27 · #**117** 06-27-2008, 05:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scarface Claw

wwolf, attroll has updated the XML to reflect the new change, so you need to download the new XML and try that one.

The new one should work for you.

I was vB newbie only a month ago dude, and now I know a bit, its pretty easy to learn, just hang in there.

EDIT:
Bloody good mod BTW, it's just what I have been needing, nominated for MotM.

I appreciate you clarifying that to me. Yes, it works now. Soon as I figure out how to change it to what I need it to say and do I will be good. LOL!! Thanks for the help and I do nominated for MotM.

attroll · #**118** 06-30-2008, 12:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fireproof

Strange. At least it's not just me.

Maybe someone else will have an idea.

But at least it doesn't look bad that way - I would just prefer it if they were the same size.

Thanks for trying to help. It's really nice to see people support their mods and add-ons.

I have done some more research and found a fix to your problem. I have updated the xml file now to replect that. If you just want to fix this without reinstalling the xml file you can do it by changing the first two lines of the navbar2 template to the following:

Code:

<div class="tborder" style="padding:$stylevar[cellspacing]px; border-top-width:1px; border-bottom-width:1px">
    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

Fireproof · #**119** 06-30-2008, 02:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by attroll

I have done some more research and found a fix to your problem. I have updated the xml file now to replect that. If you just want to fix this without reinstalling the xml file you can do it by changing the first two lines of the navbar2 template to the following:

Code:

<div class="tborder" style="padding:$stylevar[cellspacing]px; border-top-width:1px; border-bottom-width:1px">
    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

Aha - that is so awesome! Worked like a charm - thank you so much for following up with this.

Much appreciated!! :up: :up:

vbboarder · #**120** 06-30-2008, 05:02 PM

Thanks for this great mod! I have a feature request: can you start incrementing your mod version # whenever you update the mod - this would help us keep track of the versions. Even if it's a small change, adding a suffix would help, like 1.02b, 1.02c, etc. Also, can you add a changelog to your first post so that we can know what changed between versions without having to read through several posts. I think both of these small enhancements would be time-savers whenever updating. Thanks attroll for your fast & helpful support!

attroll · #**121** 07-01-2008, 06:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vbboarder

Thanks for this great mod! I have a feature request: can you start incrementing your mod version # whenever you update the mod - this would help us keep track of the versions. Even if it's a small change, adding a suffix would help, like 1.02b, 1.02c, etc. Also, can you add a changelog to your first post so that we can know what changed between versions without having to read through several posts. I think both of these small enhancements would be time-savers whenever updating. Thanks attroll for your fast & helpful support!

Very good idea. I will do that from now on. I just posted the last two change logs in the description. Thank you for mentioning that.

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