Alt nav bar hack

Hi all

Well, here goes my first v2 hack

This hack will replace the linear nav bar (Board Title > Category > Forum > sub forum) nav bar with a cascading one, where the categories drop down and indent.

Unfortunately, this hack will only change the navbar that is generated by vB, it won't change the hard coded nav bars in pages like the member list/profile. I still have to figure out how to do that.

The hack is clunky, probably could be done in 4 lines of code instead of what I've done it in, and be cleaner, but I've tested it down to a depth of 6 and it seems to work clean, and that's all that matters right now

I'm working on changing the hard coded sections to use the CP flag, so that this can work on the site and change if the CP changes.

Kathi

File: Post #41
Demo: http://www.underlight.com/VBB

Installer file for latest version now at Post #41. If you have installed this before the timestamp of that post, you should be fine.

[fonzerelli_79]

are you talking about albion rovers or stirling albion

[Moonwolf]

Plymouth Albion :P

Although I doubt they're in the FA anymore, they were kind of borderline a decade ago when I lived in Plymouth

Kathi

[fonzerelli_79]

down the old south west coast

dont know much about Plymouth (ive been to torquay though)

would i have to change that image in photoshop or would psp do

[Moonwolf]

It's a .gif, anything should do it. If you get it fixed, could you stick it up here? I only included the custom ones from when that site migrated from UBB to vB years ago, so they're probably not right for everyone anyways.

Kathi

[fonzerelli_79]

i probably wont get a chance to do it today but when i do, ill post them here

[Horizon]

How do you add something to the setting field in the database, per your first set of directions???

Through MySQLAdmin?

[Moonwolf]

I used phpMyAdmin, select the database to modify (vbulletin or whatever you called it at install time).

A textarea box is there letting you manually run queries on the database. Just add the line to that and hit go and it'll update the database.

I'm going to try and get this out using the install_ script that tubedogg et al use, when I figure out how to add it to one of them

Kathi

[Horizon]

I have admin v 1 and I dont see a go button, I select the forum db and then the setting on the right side, but then dont see where to add it.....

[Horizon]

This has changed since the last version
In admin/functions.php:

Find:

code:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$altnavbits .= "<br>$altnavprefix<img src=\"{ imagesfolder}/cascade/casendline.gif\"><img src=\"{ imagesfolder}/cascade/casicon.gif\"> $val\n";
$altnavprefix .= "<img src=\"{ imagesfolder}/cascade/casvertline.gif\">";
}
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

That is not in my functions.php cause I never did the intial release.....so where does it go?

I finally did the query using MySQLGUI of www.mysql.com worked great.

[bokhalifa]

good hack