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

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:

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

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

<!-- / NAVBAR POPUP MENUS -->

Add Before:

<!-- 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:

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

REPLACE WITH:

<!-- 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:

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

Replace with:

<!-- 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

[WEForums]

Top worked for me.

[kall]

Originally Posted by kall

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?

Sorted.

I had it in the 'Additional Navbar' and it really really didn't like that.

Nice hack.

[Cyricx]

I just upgraded to vbadvanced and ran into the same problem Kall.

So guessing that's what is causing it.

What did you do to fix your problem?

I use ushop and the arcade so would prefer to have both autopopulating.

[Cyricx]

Yep, the problem is with vbadvanced. Had vbindex and it worked fine, now at my home page www.mmogcommunities.com neither will populate, but at the forum index at www.mmogcommunities.com/forums they populate fine. I'll post to Trigga and see if he can troubleshoot the issue.

[kall]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

I just upgraded to vbadvanced and ran into the same problem Kall.

So guessing that's what is causing it.

What did you do to fix your problem?

I use ushop and the arcade so would prefer to have both autopopulating.

I think it was due to having another menu of the same name somewhere in the navbars...can't really remember what it was, because I decided to Revert my navbar and start again.

[kall]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

Yep, the problem is with vbadvanced. Had vbindex and it worked fine, now at my home page www.mmogcommunities.com neither will populate, but at the forum index at www.mmogcommunities.com/forums they populate fine. I'll post to Trigga and see if he can troubleshoot the issue.

Ahh true...Im using the CMPS thingamewotsit.

Seems the Forums Jump in navbar populates fine, as does the top part of the Ushop, but not the Actions, nor this menu.

If I come up with a solution, I'll let you know.

[Natch]

The only reason why this would not populate would be if the functions.php is not being called, if the populate function has been removed from functions.php, or if the variable has been stolen by another bit of code ...

[Cyricx]

Kewl Brian at http://vbadvanced.com pointed to the fix.

If you have VBadvanced cmps, and this hack isn't working, you'll need to open your vba_cmps_include_bottom.php file

And look for :

global $vboptions, $vba_options, $vbphrase, $stylevar, $bbuserinfo, $show, $pmbox;

Replace it with :

		global $vboptions, $vba_options, $vbphrase, $stylevar, $bbuserinfo, $show, $pmbox, $nav_arcade;

And you'll be set to go!

This info came from this thread -

http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1182

[SurreDeth]

Whenever I have an unregistered user click on a game in the dropdown they get the error: Could not find phrase 'quickreg_prompt'.

I have quickreg_prompt defined in the phrase manager.

EDIT: Nevermind, I found the reason :P I needed to move it to Front End error messages.

[Blam Forumz]

*Installs*