Version: 1.00, by attroll
Developer Last Online: Mar 2023
Version: 3.0.0
Rating:
Released: 05-15-2004
Last Update: 06-05-2004
Installs: 126
Uses Plugins Template Edits
No support by the author.
Dispite what category this is in it works with vBulletin 3.5. Just read the directions.
What this does is create another navbar with drop down menu?s by typing $navbar2 in any of your templates. It is just like the one that comes with vBulletin 3.
After seeing a lot of replies about users wanting another navbar besides the basic one that comes with vBulletin. I waited for someone else to write one. But no one stepped forward and wrote one. I wanted this for my site and got tired of waiting for someone else to write it. So I played around and created this one for myself. I though I would share it with everyone.
Note: If you do not want to add a separate navbar template you can also substitute the steps in 5A through 5D and insert the navbar2.txt after you have edited it the way you want and into the same places as I mentioned for the $navbar2 in your default navbar and you will not have to do any of these other steps.
I put a lot of description tags in the HTML file 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 navbar.
1. To install this hack you will have to create a template in you ADMINCP and call it ?navbar2? and insert the contents of the attached file "navbar2.txt" into this template file. Right now it is set up for my site. So you will have to modify it to what you want in this navbar for your site.
2. Put the following command in your phpinclude_start template:
2A. This is for users that have vB 3.5 and up. Step 2 will not work because the phpinclude_start template no longer exist in versions 3.5 and higher. So for 3.5 users ignore step 2 and use 2A.
3. Now put the following command in you header or what ever template where your want the new navbar to be displayed (samples of where to put them are in the attached photos and directions are in 5A, B, C, D.):
PHP Code:
$navbar2
4. Since the template is uncached you will have an extra query on each page. To fix, open global.php
Find:
PHP Code:
// misc useful
Add below:
PHP Code:
'navbar2',
5A. Under current Navigation / Breadcrumb Templaters - navbar:
Find:
Code:
<!-- / nav buttons bar -->
Below that place:
Code:
$navbar2
5B.On top of forums tables:
Find:
Code:
<!-- / PAGENAV POPUP -->
</if>
Below that place:
Code:
$navbar2
5C.Under your header:
Find:
Code:
<br />
<!-- breadcrumb, login, pm info -->
Above that add:
Code:
$navbar2
5D.Top of current navbar:
Find:
Code:
<!-- breadcrumb, login, pm info -->
Under that add:
Code:
$navbar2
vBadvance CMPS using vB 3.5 or higher. To get this working with the homepage you will have to do the following.
Go into your ADMINCP-->vBa CPMS-->Default Setting-->Portal Output Global Variables and add navbar2 in the block there and save it.
Arcaded hack. You will need to go into your darcaded hack and edit a line. Here are the directions:
Go to you arcade/functions/functions.php
open it with a text editor:
Find:
Code:
global $header, $vbphrase, $vboptions, $stylevar, $headinclude, $bbuserinfo, $session, $show, $pmbox;
global $forumjump, $timezone, $logincode, $_USEROPTIONS, $scriptpath, $admincpdir, $modcpdir, $quickchooserbits;
Replace with:
Code:
global $header, $vbphrase, $vboptions, $stylevar, $headinclude, $bbuserinfo, $session, $show, $pmbox;
global $forumjump, $timezone, $logincode, $_USEROPTIONS, $scriptpath, $admincpdir, $modcpdir, $quickchooserbits, $navbar2;
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I really appreciate the effort you are taking to help me figure this out.. I found an easy fix, since I was banging my head against my keyboard for something like 5 hours..
I just uninstalled the second navbar completely and just added a table to my navbar template where I wanted it.. The odd thing is that it works perfectly on another site I designed http://www.theflyfishingforum.com
Just a complete mystery... But again, thanks for the effort.
Ok. No problem. If it works on one site and not another then there is something missing in your templates somewhere.
I tried doing this, followed all of the instructions but the nav bar just doesn't show up...
Where do I need to put that phrase in the phpinclude_start template exactly as I think this would have something to do with it.
Go to your phpinclude_start template and your stock version of the template should look like the one below with the exception of the line that needs to be added at the end/bottom.
// Example of how to include a seperate file:
// ob_start();
// require("yourheader.html");
// $header = ob_get_contents();
// ob_end_clean();
eval('$navbar2 = "' . fetch_template('navbar2') . '";');
Any support for 3.5 ? The is no phpinclude_start template.
Sorry I can not help you yet. I am not going to install 3.5 until it is all done the Beta testing. I have gone through this to many times before. It is hard to keep up with hacks while the Beta testing is being done. But if someone can ask on VB what happened to the phpinclude_start template and let me know I might be able to shed some light on this.
OK, i have found out the problem ... when we edit the navbar2, we have delete
PHP Code:
</tr>
</table>
</div>
we just add these again so things is ok then ...
You still have me wondering now because there is no phpinclude_start template anymore. I went to VB and found a thread that said this. So now I need to research what this Hook thing is they are talking about.