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

[gator777]

Originally Posted by talenak

Oh but there IS Harmor! I found it a little bit ago, AFTER, I posted of course.

Can I suggest you link to this post in your MOD description?

Edit to add a suggestion and pictures: For anyone who wants to add the categories using the linked to methiod, Don't add a category strip as the first to display. There is an extra space added above each manually added strip that just looks tacky if its in the #1 display order. Images attached. Also it doesn't display correctly in acp, but it doesn't harm anything. See attached images.

This would make an already good mod even greater. I hope you can add this to your mod as well. Thanks for all the hard work.

[UaeStar]

nice thanks

[Ophelia]

Not sure if it's been noted yet.

Adding a ' into the hover text removes anything after the '

Today's Photos turns into Today

[harmor19]

Originally Posted by Ophelia

Not sure if it's been noted yet.

Adding a ' into the hover text removes anything after the '

Today's Photos turns into Today

Thanks. I'll see if I can fix the problem.

[Jay-MOB]

can the menu style be changed to the normal forum style?

[HaCaoChien]

Installed.

Everything seem work well when I add Menu and Link to Menu. But in Stand-Alone Link, I checked all in option "Select the usergroups that can see this link" but it do not show and when I try to edit that Stand-Alone Link, I see in that option, nothing checked. Please help

Thanks

[Alfa1]

Can you put conditionals in links that you add to this hack? Or doesn't that work?

[vcruiser]

All went well with the install and it works great. The link I created is Home. It shows in the navbar, in the center, how do I position it to where ever I want?

[Brew]

My navbar links are not in my navbar template, they're in the header.

I have been trying to get this to work but the table rows and columns just won't let this format correctly.

My source is:

<!-- logo -->
<a name="top"></a>
<table border="0" width="$stylevar[outertablewidth]" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">
<tr>
 <td><a href="index.php"><img src="redbar/elements/logo.jpg" border="0"></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<br>
$header_advertisement
</td></tr>
<tr>
 <td background="redbar/elements/catsub.jpg" height="24" class="menu">
<a href="index.php">Main</a> &nbsp;&nbsp; 
<if condition="$show['member']">
<a href="usercp.php">User CP</a> &nbsp;&nbsp; 
</if>
<if condition="$show['registerbutton']">
<a href="register.php">Register</a> &nbsp;&nbsp; 
</if>
<a href="memberlist.php">Member List</a> &nbsp;&nbsp; 
<a href="calendar.php">Calendar</a> &nbsp;&nbsp; 
<a href="faq.php">FAQ</a> &nbsp;&nbsp; 
<if condition="$show['member']">
<a href="search.php">Search</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;
</if>
<if condition="$show['member']">
<a href="login.php?$session[sessionurl]do=logout&amp;logouthash=$bbuserinfo[logouthash]" onclick="return log_out()">Logout</a>
</if>

$custom_droplinks_cat
$custom_singlelinks

</td>
</tr>

$custom_droplinks

<tr>
  <td width="655">
<!-- /logo -->
<!-- content table -->
$spacer_open
$leftcolumn_advertisement
$_phpinclude_output

As you can see I have the first two variables just after the login/logout link and the other is outside the table columns/rows.

I have tried to put the three lines ( $custom_singlelinks, $custom_droplinks_cat and $custom_droplinks ) everywhere I can think of but the formatting just isn't working.

Can someone give me a hand with this?

You can see what the above code is doing to the layout (as of 8/4/07) here:

http://www.criticalreactor.com/forums/index.php

Whoever can help me I would greatly appreciate it, I'm pulling my hair out in this

[cynthetiq]

Thanks alot! I haven't created my menus but