Miscellaneous Hacks - vBH-Add new tabs

vBH-Add new tabs 1.2 with no querys
Mark as installed, if you use it


If you like this modification please suport it in the mod of the moth poll

What does this plugin?
This plugin allows you to add new tabs in the navigation bar to link to any site you want.

Installation:
Import the xml file from the product manager..
Upload the files in the upload folder to your forums via ftp.

To add new tabs, go to:
vBulletin Options> VBH New Tabs Option


Configuration example:

AdminCP|/admincp/=>self;6
google|http://www.google.com=>self;1 2
vbulletin|http://www.vbulletin.com=>self;1 2
yahoo|http://www.yahoo.com=>self;1 2
vbulletin.org|http://www.vbulletin.org=>self;1 2

See screenshots.

To make tab selected:
This option only works if your tab links to internal files. You need to enter the THIS_SCRIPT value under the option Tabs Selected.

Also note that some areas of vBulletin already use the THIS_SCRIPT value in their code and because of this some tabs may not work correctly. A example of this would be the usercp.php file. If you make a tab linking to this file and then you enter the value 'usercp' to make it selected, the tab will be selected but also will be the forum tab. This is because vBulletin used this value in the navbar template.

You won't have problems when linking to custome pages.

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History:
11-23-09: First release 1.0

• Ability to add tabs with option to disable the modification.

11-23-09: Update 1.1

• Some bug fixes
• New option to align the tabs on the left, right or center.
• Now you can choose which usergroup can view each tab.
• Links can now be set to open in a new window or the same window.

12-24-09

• Updated to work on vB4 Gold

02-08-10: Update 1.2

• Added option to make the tab selected, please read the product options.
• Added option to disable the default tabs Home, Blogs and What's New. At this time tab forum can't be removed.

This product does not add sublinks even if tabs are selected.

[Mosh]

Originally Posted by DHewes

Great mod - easy to do, MUCH better than the template mod crap. As MANY people have said, three things:

1) This should be part of the default install - like any other CMS/Forum script (not your problem)

2) The selected tab really needs to be the one highlighted

3) Need a way to change the sub-navbar links along with the new tab, like the default links

Changing order of the new links and the default links is a fine idea, but I can live without it.

Great work, thanks!

Originally Posted by Muggz562

waiting on the new version, hopefully theres a tab highlight option.

Originally Posted by Fusion2

This is simple and easy to use. I love it!

But, how can i use with navbar links or dropdowns?

I am guessing i can do this on the page template, so that certain sub-categories appear on navbar as links. But, lots of extra work.

Originally Posted by Fusion2

OMG, your right. The tab doesnt have hover or highlight options. This totally doesnt work for me then as it will confuse my visitors as to where they are.

Originally Posted by Neptun

is there a possibility to have this tabs with a drop down function ?! this would be great if Elmer can integrate this to the hack - then this hack is the best

Elmer said he will try to add the highlighted tab at some point, but there is no ETA:

Originally Posted by Elmer

paulbhoy, there is no way to do that in the current versi?n. I'll be working in a minor update to include some suggestions, but I won't be including every suggestion. I'm just going to update the current version, I will include a variable, that if active you will be able to use it in your custom page and use it in some sort of conditional to highlight your tab.

For all the other users that keep asking why this addon doesn't change the tab color to white when clicked, this addon doesn't support it and provably wont, however I will try to make something in the future.
There is a paid addon out there that do everything you people want, however I know that would be better if this features were free, so I will try to implement them at some point.

I have a product that does it all if you can not wait, just click the link in my signature.

[sdavis2702]

Awesome this works great!

I wish I didn't have to add the usergroups every time (really only once because I can copy and paste) but I am still grateful for you work!

[Firas S.]

Thanks Elmer
That's exactly what I was looking for.

[madotds]

Thank you for this mod, just what I was looking for strange for it not to be in stock VB4 so just aswell there are coders like you willing to share:up:

Cheers

Mark

[egclive]

How would i make it open in my current tab

[3DUInc]

Thank you thank you thank you

This is exactely what I have been searching for!!

[badawidollah]

hello
i upgraded to VB4.0.1
not work there

this hack very wonderfull
hope work for VB4.0.1

[SirFalcon]

Thank-you. I installed this on 4.0.1 and it works perfectly. i.e. http://www.thecloudgamer.com/forums/index.php

[Skyrider]

Elmer, know by any chance how I get rid of the current existing default vB tabs?

[SnitchSeeker]

This is useless for me unless you can highlight selected tabs and add sub-links.

Originally Posted by Mosh

I have a product that does it all if you can not wait, just click the link in my signature.

I want to create tabs that link to different forum sections or blogs within vb-suite, and when users are anywhere in that forum section or blog, the correct tab is selected/highlighted.

Mosh, does your product do that? $30 + $15 to removing branding (who wants even MORE links in their footer?) + $15 per year is a lot to ask I think, but may be worth it if it does EVERYTHING I need...