Miscellaneous Hacks - Additional navbar with dropdowns

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:

<!-- / breadcrumb, login, pm info -->

Below that place:

$navbar2

5B. On top of forums tables:
Find:

<!-- / PAGENAV POPUP -->
</if>

Below that place:

$navbar2

5C. Top of current navbar:
Find:

<br />
<!-- breadcrumb, login, pm info -->

Above that add:

$navbar2

5D. Under your header:
Find:

<br />
<!-- breadcrumb, login, pm info -->

Below that add:

$navbar2

5E. Under VB navbar:
Find:

<!-- / nav buttons bar -->

Below that add:

$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]

Originally Posted by momo2

you uploaded your setup with all ur settings to ur forum lol
least you can do give us a clean product.. not with ur forum info in them

I don't understand what your saying here. If your complaining then remove the info from the navabr2 that is supplied with it. I left my samples in there so that others that do not understand code could relate to it and understand it by replacing it with there own code. Not everyone that downloads these hacks knows coding.

[wrang]

Where do i find the text so i can change the links etc

Edit:
I find it in the templates navbar2

[wolfiejp]

Hi, nice mod but im having some trouble with it, it's displaying fine when i use Ie to browse my site but when i use firefix the navbar vanishes and im left with a bit of txt for the added links i put in and there hyperlinks, but no navbar.

Is it somthing i did or a bug with Firefox ?

thanks

[attroll]

No this works fine with IE and FF. It is probably another hack you have in your system that is interfering with this one.

[Vaupell]

works like a charm, added right under my navbar in 3.8 rc 2
but it contains all sorts of odd links.. wth

www.evisystems.org

[home9000]

Is it running under 3.6.X ?

[SuperTaz]

3.8.0 compatible?

[Nadeemjp]

3.8 compatible?

[SuperTaz]

guess not.

[attroll]

Yes this works with 3.8.