How do I remove certain cats from navbits?

Christophe_O says:

Originally posted by smachol
$navbits... is in functions.php...

Am I correct in saying, then, that to modify the navbar requires PhP coding---therefore this would be a "hack" and not a template modification?

What I want to do is remove the forum category from the navbar.

I did look in functions.php, and found "$navbits=makenav" So I went farther down to "function makenav"----but well, I don't know PhP......

Well, maybe this is beyond the scope of this forum.... but anyway here is the makenav. Can someone tell me what to remove to take out the forum category from the navbar? Just copy and paste in your reply what to remove.... That is, IF this is the right function and IF it's easy for an experienced programmer to spot...

PHP Code:

function makenav($id,$idtype="forum",$highlightlast=1) {
  global $DB_site,$nav_url,$nav_title,$session,$threadcache;
  $code = "";
  if ($id!=-1) {
    if ($idtype=="thread") {
      if ( !isset($threadcache["$id"]) ) {
        $getforumid=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT forumid FROM thread WHERE threadid=$id");
      } else {
        $getforumid['forumid'] = $threadcache["$id"]['forumid'];
      }
      $code=makenav($getforumid['forumid'],"forum",1);

      if ($highlightlast) {
        $templatename="nav_linkon";
      } else {
        $templatename="nav_linkoff";
      }

      if (strlen($code)>0) {
        $code.=gettemplate("nav_joiner",0);
      }

      $threadinfo=getthreadinfo($id);
      $nav_url="showthread.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&threadid=$id";
      $nav_title=$threadinfo[title];

      eval("\$code .= \"".gettemplate("$templatename")."\";");
    } else {
      $foruminfo=getforuminfo($id);
      if ($foruminfo[parentid]!=-1) {
        $code=makenav($foruminfo[parentid],$idtype,1);
      }

      if (strlen($code)>0) {
        $code.=gettemplate("nav_joiner",0);
      }

      $nav_url="forumdisplay.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&forumid=$id";
      $nav_title=$foruminfo[title];

      if ($highlightlast) {
        eval("\$code .= \"".gettemplate('nav_linkon')."\";");
      } else {
        eval("\$code .= \"".gettemplate('nav_linkoff')."\";");
      }

    }
  }
  return $code;

} 


[Christophe_O]

Just discovered this prints the page title: $foruminfo[title]

Now if only I can figure out how to get the navbar links in the thread display to use the action <target="left"> ......

[PsyBlast]

is there an easy way to make all of the navbits a certain format without having to go through every single template?

I dont want them to be these big bulky long sentances, i ant them divided up like this:

VB icon here Forum name here
--2nd line here
--3rd line here
-- etc. etc. etc.