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Addon: Auto-populate Navbar menu (for John's Arcade V3) · **Released**: 02-06-2004

Addon: Auto-populate Navbar menu (for John's Arcade V3)

What this hack does:

It replaces the link in your navbar for the Arcade with a Dropdown menu of all the games that are active in your Arcade.

Motivation: Extrapolated from my other auto-populating menu for Erwin's vB3 hack ...

Files to edit: 2
global.php
includes/functions.php
Template to edit: 1
navbar
New phrases to insert: 1
Queries added: 1

Step 1: Add the following in the Phrase Manager under GLOBAL

Alternate: you can import the single phrase using the included XML file

************************************************** ******
Name: arcade_addon_title
Phrase: The Arcade!
************************************************** ******

Step 2: Add the following at the bottom of global.php

Find:

Code:

/*======================================================================*\
|| ####################################################################
|| # Downloaded:

Add Before:

PHP Code:


			
// Addon to John's vB3 ArcadeV3 hack - created by Natch

    $nav_arcade = genArcadeMenu();

// Addon to John's vB3 ArcadeV3 hack - created by Natch

Step 3: Add the following at the bottom of includes/functions.php

Find:

Code:

/*======================================================================*\
|| ####################################################################
|| # Downloaded:

Add Before:

PHP Code:


			
// Addon to John's vB3 ArcadeV3 hack - created by Natch

function genArcadeMenu() {

    global $DB_site,$vboptions;

    $theseGames = $DB_site->query("SELECT gameid,title,gamesettings FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "games ORDER BY title");

    while ($thisGame = $DB_site->fetch_array($theseGames)) {

        $arcmenu.= (is_int($thisGame[gamesettings]/2)) ? "" : "\t\t<tr><td class=\"vbmenu_option\"><a href=\"$vboptions[bburl]/arcade.php?$session[sessionurl]do=play&amp;gameid=".$thisGame[gameid]."\">".$thisGame[title]."</a></td></tr>\n";

    }

    return $arcmenu;

}

// Addon to John's vB3 ArcadeV3 hack - created by Natch

Step 4: Add the following to the template 'navbar'

Find:

Code:

<!-- / NAVBAR POPUP MENUS -->

Add Before:

Code:

<!-- Addon to John's vB3 ArcadeV3 hack - created by Natch -->
	<if condition="$show['member']"> <!-- remove this line and the endif if you wish all users and guests to view the menu -->
	<!-- flash arcade auto-menu -->
	<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="flasharcade_menu" style="display:none">
		<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
		<tr><td class="thead"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/arcade.php?$session[sessionurl]" title="$vbphrase[arcade_addon_title]">$vbphrase[arcade_addon_title]</a></td></tr>
$nav_arcade
		</table>
	</div>
	<!-- / flash arcade auto-menu -->
	</if>
<!-- Addon to John's vB3 ArcadeV3 hack - created by Natch -->

Find:

Code:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="arcade.php?$session[sessionurl]">Arcade</a></td>

REPLACE WITH:

Code:

<!-- Addon to John's vB3 ArcadeV3 hack - created by Natch -->
			<if condition="$show['member']"> <!-- remove this line and the endif if you wish all users and guests to view the menu -->
				<td id="flasharcade" class="vbmenu_control"><a href="#flasharcade">$vbphrase[arcade_addon_title]</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("flasharcade"); </script></td>
			</if>
<!-- Addon to John's vB3 ArcadeV3 hack - created by Natch -->

NOTE: in the two navbar edits there are conditionals that WILL CAUSE the menu to only appear to Registered users - remove these conditional wrappers to show the menu to all and sundry ...

Should work

Enjoy, and props to John for his great Hack ...
U can see a demo @ http://www.mobileforces.org/ << running vBulletin 3.0.0 RC4 and vBIndex RC3, on PHP v4.3.4, MySQL 4.0.15

Screenshots attached: one with all default games enabled, and one with asteroids disabled

UPDATE: fixed up my comments - damn that copy and paste ... those that downloaded the attachment b4 5AM +11GMT, re-get the attachment, or make the following alterations to the above script:

Find twice:

Code:

// remove this line and the endif if you wish all users and  guests to view the menu

Replace with:

Code:

<!-- remove this line and the endif if you wish all users and guests to view the menu -->

UPDATE: IF YOU WANT ONLY N MOST POPULAR GAMES - check out this post

UPDATE: if you wat IMGAES in your dropdown menu, check out this post

dirtymerc · #22 02-11-2004, 06:27 AM

How can i get it so that in the postbit, it just shows trophies for the number of games that the person has won, and then when you roll over a trophy it shows which game it was for? In a horizontal fashion under the username in the new postbit setup not legacy???

Thanks a ton!

Natch · #23 02-11-2004, 08:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dirtymerc

Everything worked, but my arcade button is missing, its just a drop down arrow??? www.offthetopic.com/forums

Make sure you added the New Phrase, as per the instructions ...

Quote:

Originally Posted by dirtymerc

How can i get it so that in the postbit, it just shows trophies for the number of games that the person has won, and then when you roll over a trophy it shows which game it was for? In a horizontal fashion under the username in the new postbit setup not legacy???

Thanks a ton!

That's more a question for John in his thread

but it's a simple postbit template modification ...

Allan · #24 02-11-2004, 09:45 AM

Thanks Natch, good work !

AshAbed · #25 02-11-2004, 08:25 PM

I had been doing this manually.... thanks for the hack, too bad I had them added already lol,

milkmycow · #26 03-31-2004, 04:50 PM

on the add-on for only displaying top played games, is there a way to add a link @ the bottom of list saying click here for more games? to go to arcade home?

Natch · #27 04-01-2004, 02:38 PM

You should be able to add <a href tags pointing to the arcade home page around the title of the menu (if I didn't do it already ...)

Cold Steel · #28 04-14-2004, 10:07 PM

Installed.

neocorteqz · #29 04-15-2004, 04:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Natch

You should be able to add <a href tags pointing to the arcade home page around the title of the menu (if I didn't do it already ...)

I thought you did.

Natch · #30 04-15-2004, 10:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by neocorteqz

I thought you did.

I thought so too ...

Code:

<tr><td class="thead"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/arcade.php?$session[sessionurl]" title="$vbphrase[arcade_addon_title]">$vbphrase[arcade_addon_title]</a></td></tr>

Yup

There is a link already - look @ the link @ the top of the list of top games - it will be a link to the arcade ...

kall · #31 05-23-2004, 12:30 AM

I installed this hack, but the drop-down menu won't populate.

I can call $nav_arcade manually, on a separate page, and it displays a list of all installed games, but when it is put in the drop down box in the navbar, I get nothing.

http://forums.nzboards.com (top navbar)

Does anyone have any suggestions?

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