Forum Display Enhancements - Tabs Add System for vBulletin 4 (sstab advanced)

Review:
This mod allows you to easily add and remove tabs on the navigation bar using the adminCP. Tabs can appear as "selected" after being clicked, automatically deselecting the other tabs.
You also have the option of indicating which groups are allowed and not allowed to see the tabs via usergroup id.
Tabs may operate as normal select tabs, as drop-down menus. or as links to external sites.

The Hack only use 1 SQL sentence to create All the Menu, no Template edition

This Hack allows you to create tabs at the bar of vBulletin 4.0

Installation:
- Upload all files in the UPLOAD folder to the root of the forum
- Import the product 'product-evbs_sstab_advanced.xml'
- Configure and manage your tabs in the "Tabs vbSoporte" menu in AdminCP
- Do not forget to "Allow Overwrite" if you are Updating to 2.0

20-01-10: ver 1.0

• Create Tabs in vBulletin 4

23-01-10: ver 2.0

• Create/Manager Tabs Drop Down
• Create/Manager Sublinks for Tabs
• Option to Disable FORUM, HOME, BLOG, WHAT'S NEW Defaults vBulletin Tabs and not delete their sublinks menu
• Phrases in native English and all phrases are in variables
• Code with new algorithm for better performance
• Spanish Language (sstab_advanced_spanish.xml)

23-01-10: ver 2.0.1

• Fix some bugs
• Work with vBadvanced CMPS Menu

23-01-10: ver 2.0.2

• Fix menu Tab mix problem
• Define some Rules:
  1. If TABS is a menu -> No process Sublink
  2. If MENU TAB no have Item -> No Process

27-01-10: ver 2.0.3

• Change Title Size from 20 to 50 characters
• Fix Error when not have Tabs
• Add 2 phrases that I forgot to include in the last version
• Fix Groups Permission when is a TAB MENU or TAB with SUBLINK
• Add MultiScript
• Option to TABMODE (THIS_SCRIPT, URL,URL_PARAMETER) Please, READ POST #2
• membergroup with a list and checkbox (option to SET Colums in Config)

12-May-10: ver 2.0.4 (Compatible with vB 4.0.3)

• Fix What's News
• Add Option to ser Imagen to tabs
• Credits in footer can be disable from Option Panel
• Fix Calendar problem
• Fix Option to URL_PARAMETER

19-Jan-11: ver 2.0.5 (Compatible with vB 4.1.1)

• Fix All Hide Options
• Allow to use Phrase as Titles (RULES)
  • If the "Phrase Variable Name" don't exist, them use the TITLE

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About URL_PARAMETER
To use this Option only Write the Part that Always repeat, por example for this URLs:

1. http://x.com/showthread.php?1-Nuevo (Main thread)
2. http://x.com/showthread.php?1-Nuevo&p=13#post13 (Post in thread)
3. http://x.com/showthread.php?1-Nuevo/page2 (One page of thread)

You Only Set:

1. Tab Label = Any Name
2. URL = http://x.com/showthread.php?1-Nuevo (or only http://x.com/showthread.php?1- that have the ID of thread)
3. Tab mode: URL_PARAMETER

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About Phrases as TITLES
When you create a New Element (Tab, menu, etc) You see a box to put only the variable Phrase name


To create New Phrase go to
Languages & Phrases -> Phrase Manager -> Add New Phrase
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Special Thank to
vB Style Taught me about new the CSS system and help me using CSS standards
dieKetzer Betatester and Translator to native English Language

Observation:

• This Hack is FULL AUTO-TEMPLATE but need the default NAVBAR template to work
• This Hack have copyright ad at the bottom of the page (if you use this)

Spanish Version, (Version en Espa?ol, mi lenguaje Primario ) -> Tabs Add System for vBulletin 4 (sstab advanced)

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How to Add Variables Like userid:
if you need to use vBulletin variables to make URL like http://myurl.com/?u={userid} see this Post
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1031

[dieKetzer]

i am experiencing a 'double-selected' issue that didnt exist prior to updating to 2.02 tonight.
both the default 'forum' tab and a custom tab linked to 'supscription.php' highlight when viewing the subscriptions page, despite this_script being correctly identified as 'subscription' in the custom tab.
it is perhaps noteworthy that the subscription tab also seems to have inherited the forum sub links as well.

i reckon this is related to changes in the sub nav code, because this bug was not present in the earlier release.
yes, subscription.php carries the this_script as 'subscription' in the nav tab options in adminCP.

attempting to add new sub links to the 'subscription' tab results in the new sublinks appearing superimposed over the 'forum-inherited' sub links.

[dgkrob]

fantastic mod! really well done.

one question that im sure someone can answer, How do i remove all the links under the tabs so all im using is the tabs, I.e new posts, private messages, faq, calendar etc?

Cheers

Rob

[aberg]

Thanks, install today but there is a bug in the script.
In the URL there is a %20 in it.
So a URL is display as:
www.test%20.com
This give a error 404

[Matais]

Thanks Jhonny this addon is working perfectly for me, and thanks for integrating it with vbadvanced <3

[SnitchSeeker]

This is looking great! Thanks for all the excellent support you seem to be giving too! It's nice to see somebody working so hard to give us the features we need with this new (shitty) tab system vb has forced upon us!

Originally Posted by Datenpapst

Any possiblity to get a tab to be marked active if the link is to a section of the CMS?

Like: content.php?118

I second this and am glad to give a donation to help you along if that works. Let me know how I can help.

Cheers!

EDIT: Donation sent and will send more once this fills my need 100%. So far, all that is lacking (I think) is ability to highlight tab for specific forum sections. Currently, any forum you are in will show "Forums" tab as active. I want some of my forums to have their own tab, and for that to override the default "Forums" tab. Problem is THIS_SCRIPT for all forums is the same, so I'm not sure how one would override it. Possibly writing condition will work, as Lynne says in this thread (see also her post 2 down from that), but I don't code so I have no idea.

[skor]

If I create a tab called "Business" with url to a section (i.e. content.php/11-business) of the cms and then use vbcms as THIS_SCRIPT, both the Home and Business tabs are highlighted if I navigate to Home or Business.

Can you help me fix this? Really liking this mod but double highlight looks strange.

Thank you!

[Jhonnyf]

Originally Posted by SnitchSeeker

This is looking great! Thanks for all the excellent support you seem to be giving too! It's nice to see somebody working so hard to give us the features we need with this new (shitty) tab system vb has forced upon us!



I second this and am glad to give a donation to help you along if that works. Let me know how I can help.

Cheers!

EDIT: Donation sent and will send more once this fills my need 100%. So far, all that is lacking (I think) is ability to highlight tab for specific forum sections. Currently, any forum you are in will show "Forums" tab as active. I want some of my forums to have their own tab, and for that to override the default "Forums" tab. Problem is THIS_SCRIPT for all forums is the same, so I'm not sure how one would override it. Possibly writing condition will work, as Lynne says in this thread (see also her post 2 down from that), but I don't code so I have no idea.

Thank You,

Ok, option to write a URL (THIS Disable THIS_SCRIPT) and highlight
Something else?? new Ideas?

[compuminus]

If I do not add any new links to the top menu (and only use the hack to disable some of them, such as the what's new link), then I get the following PHP error:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(283) : eval()'d code on line 111

[compuminus]

Another bug: if the link title is longer than 20 characters it truncates the title at 20 characters.

[tini_lam]

thanks. good job