Additional Navbar

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:

PHP Code:

eval('$navbar2 = "' . fetch_template('navbar2') . '";'); 


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.

Plugin System
Add new Plugin

Hook Location: global_start
Title: navbar2
Plugin PHP Code:

PHP Code:

eval('$navbar2 = "' . fetch_template('navbar2') . '";'); 


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:

<!-- / nav buttons bar -->

Below that place:

$navbar2

5B. On top of forums tables:
Find:

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

Below that place:

$navbar2

5C. Under your header:
Find:

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

Above that add:

$navbar2

5D. Top of current navbar:
Find:

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

Under that add:

$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:

global $header, $vbphrase, $vboptions, $stylevar, $headinclude, $bbuserinfo, $session, $show, $pmbox;
global $forumjump, $timezone, $logincode, $_USEROPTIONS, $scriptpath, $admincpdir, $modcpdir, $quickchooserbits;

Replace with:

global $header, $vbphrase, $vboptions, $stylevar, $headinclude, $bbuserinfo, $session, $show, $pmbox;
global $forumjump, $timezone, $logincode, $_USEROPTIONS, $scriptpath, $admincpdir, $modcpdir, $quickchooserbits, $navbar2;

[rb290]

I got 4 Links on the new navbar (navbar2)
Arcade, Awards, Jokes, vBookie

and when I go to Arcade the navbar2 doesnt show up anymore, but it does for all other ones

[attroll]

Originally Posted by rb290

I got 4 Links on the new navbar (navbar2)
Arcade, Awards, Jokes, vBookie

and when I go to Arcade the navbar2 doesnt show up anymore, but it does for all other ones

Yes it is because you are most likely going to have to edit your functions.php file in your arcade directory. If you read post #156 in this thread it explains what to do. Providing this is the same arcade that is mentioned. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=156

[rb290]

thanks, it worked!

[b00k]

attroll, thanks for taking the time and sticking around offering support.

I have tried installing this hack, by far, if not the easiest, except it refuses to work.
I checked, double checked all the work. I finally just uninstalled all but the navbar2 template and am asking for help.

I currently run multiple child styles, so i edited the default. Again, nothing is showing up.

I rechecked all the work and read through every page here.

Is this an issue with the rotating banner modifcation?

[Edrick]

try editing each style one by one, when you have multiple styles, and you have modified a template in a child style, modifying the parent style, will NOT modify the child style. I had this same problem, so try editing all your styles one by one.

[attroll]

Originally Posted by Edrick

try editing each style one by one, when you have multiple styles, and you have modified a template in a child style, modifying the parent style, will NOT modify the child style. I had this same problem, so try editing all your styles one by one.

Yes this is very true. I found this out the hard way myself. It kicked my butt for a while. Until I relized this. Once you have edited a template in the child style then editing the master or should I say parent template will not change the child template.

[Aaron RV]

work on vb 3.5?

thank's.

[attroll]

I have gone through the directions for the Additional Navbar one more time.

I have fixed it so that there is an overlaying number on the screen shots that matches the direction in the hack so you know which step to do depending on where you want your navbar2 to display.

I also added the direction for those using the vBadvance CMPS hack so it will display on there homepage. There is an easier way of doing it instead of using the previsous directions I had posted.

I also added directions on how to incorperate this into the Arcade hack.

[jcfuller]

Great hack! Thanks for this! Clicked install.

[Synth]

Thanks!!