Mini Mods - Advanced Navbar Links

Author: Andrew Harmor
Version: 2.0.2
File Edits: 0
Template Edits: 2
Difficulty: Easy


Description:
You can add links or multiple menus to the navbar quickly through a form. Specify which usergroups can see each link via the permissions system.


F.A.Q.
Q: Why aren't the links showing?
A: Edit the link in your Admin CP and check the usergroup permissions

Q: All the links I made from the last version are gone
A: Go into phpmyadmin and select your vbulletin database.
Browse the table named "custom_droplinks". Change all the "catid's" with 0 to 1.
Go into your ACP --> Advanced Navbar Links --> Modify/Delete The links should show up under the first category. You can edit the links from here and select a different category to place it in.

Q: How do I get the links to appear on vBAdvanced?
A: Go into your ACP --> vBa CMPS --> Default Settings
Look for "Portal Output Global Variables". Add the following into the text area.

custom_singlelinks
custom_droplinks
custom_droplinks_cat

If you install this mod please press the "Install" button.

--Change Log--
1.0.0 - Initial Release

1.0.1 - took out the code that automatically added HTML to the navbar. I thought having it do it automatically was cool but can be annoying because you can't easily customize the class or placement

2.0.0 - Added the functionality to add multiple drop down menus

2.0.1 - Added missing table prefixes

[harmor19]

Originally Posted by itsblack

I just updated from 1.0.1 to 2.0.2, and all my links are gone. I have to add it again.

Go into phpmyadmin and select your vbulletin database.
Browse the table named "custom_droplinks". Change all the "catid's" with 0 to 1.
Go into your ACP --> Advanced Navbar Links --> Modify/Delete The links should show up under the first category. You can edit the links from here and select a different category to place it in.

[harmor19]

Originally Posted by redlabour

Does it delete my Links again at Updating or did you fix this Bug this Time?

It won't delete the links.

[AzzidReign]

Originally Posted by harmor19

Update: 2.0.2
When you edit a menu or link the usergroups selections do not reset.
I have changed the usergroup multi-select form to checkboxes.
I have cached the "custom_droplinks_cat" template.

--Changed Files--
product-custom_links.xml
admincp/admin_custom_links.php

You rock!

I know I keep pumping out suggestions...I hope you don't mind me suggesting 1 more (for the time being lol).

In the edit menu where you can see all the menus and links you can edit, for all the links inside the menu, can you show the display order of those and be able to change them there like you would changing the display order for styles and templates? That would be helpful, at least for me since I always forget to add links and I like certain links at the top and others near the bottom, etc.

Thanks!

[Neutral Singh]

Originally Posted by harmor19

In the "Resources" drop down menu I see "Guru Granth Sahib Translation".

Click on that link in the menu and see what happends...

[UP_Webmaster]

Cant download the updates files. Says page is unavailable. Can someone email me this to webmaster@unifiedproductions.com?

Thank you!

[harmor19]

Originally Posted by Neutral Singh

Click on that link in the menu and see what happends...

I don't know why it doesn't work.

[TaBsiCore]

Originally Posted by rickyreter

Just had quick look and you could put:

<tr><td class="thead">Whatever</td></tr> in the name on add a link if you want a seperator it does show up a small table error but nothing to worry about..... for me anyway... Just back things up

see under gallery and video demo menu

class="thead" should be integrated in a new version

[bjhuang]

i got a similar problem. when i modify a link and save, it tells me saved sucessfuly, but nothing saved. this only happens to stand-alone links editing.

Originally Posted by AzzidReign

I don't know if this has been brought up yet...but when you go to edit a menu (I haven't tried individual links yet), it won't let you. When you click edit, you edit it to your likings, then you click save, it tells you that the name is already in use... So the changes don't take place

[dragonlove]

Thank you for this hack! I've already vote it 5* and mark as installed!


Can you help me out how to use this with the style : dark_vb_v2 , it use button image instead of text link on the navbar.


I only use your hack to make new dropdown menus, so I created a new button called "LiveScores"



This is the darkvbv2 navigation-bar code :
Dropdown Search menu:

PHP Code:

<td id="navbar_search"><a href="$show[nojs_link]#navbar_search"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/link_search.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a><script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("navbar_search" ,1); </script></td> 


And this is my code to make it possible with the style (with the old version of Advanced Navbar Links - 1.6.0):

PHP Code:

<td id="custom_links"><a href="#custom_links"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/link_custom.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a><script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("custom_links"); </script></td> 


---> But the problem is : it only display the button with the menu_open.gif image, it has no function as the search menu! and even a little fall out of the navbar images row!

Please have a look at this image :





Can you plz help me figuring out this problem?

Many thanks!!!!

[sbeehre]

I have installed the mod and it works great when i am on the forum home, but it wont show up on the vbadvanced portal even though i have added the required text to the Portal Output Global Variables.... anyone have any idea's?