Additional Navbar

Dispite what category this is in it works with vBulletin 3.5. Just read the directions.

What this does is create another navbar with drop down menu?s by typing $navbar2 in any of your templates. It is just like the one that comes with vBulletin 3.

After seeing a lot of replies about users wanting another navbar besides the basic one that comes with vBulletin. I waited for someone else to write one. But no one stepped forward and wrote one. I wanted this for my site and got tired of waiting for someone else to write it. So I played around and created this one for myself. I though I would share it with everyone.

Note: If you do not want to add a separate navbar template you can also substitute the steps in 5A through 5D and insert the navbar2.txt after you have edited it the way you want and into the same places as I mentioned for the $navbar2 in your default navbar and you will not have to do any of these other steps.

I put a lot of description tags in the HTML file to help explain what everything does. Once you understand what is going on here you can removed these. With very little modifications you can add to, remove or move items around in this navbar.

1. To install this hack you will have to create a template in you ADMINCP and call it ?navbar2? and insert the contents of the attached file "navbar2.txt" into this template file. Right now it is set up for my site. So you will have to modify it to what you want in this navbar for your site.

2. Put the following command in your phpinclude_start template:

PHP Code:

eval('$navbar2 = "' . fetch_template('navbar2') . '";'); 


2A. This is for users that have vB 3.5 and up. Step 2 will not work because the phpinclude_start template no longer exist in versions 3.5 and higher. So for 3.5 users ignore step 2 and use 2A.

Plugin System
Add new Plugin

Hook Location: global_start
Title: navbar2
Plugin PHP Code:

PHP Code:

eval('$navbar2 = "' . fetch_template('navbar2') . '";'); 


3. Now put the following command in you header or what ever template where your want the new navbar to be displayed (samples of where to put them are in the attached photos and directions are in 5A, B, C, D.):

PHP Code:

$navbar2 


4. Since the template is uncached you will have an extra query on each page. To fix, open global.php
Find:

PHP Code:

// misc useful 


Add below:

PHP Code:

'navbar2', 


5A. Under current Navigation / Breadcrumb Templaters - navbar:
Find:

<!-- / nav buttons bar -->

Below that place:

$navbar2

5B. On top of forums tables:
Find:

<!-- / PAGENAV POPUP -->
</if>

Below that place:

$navbar2

5C. Under your header:
Find:

<br />
<!-- breadcrumb, login, pm info -->

Above that add:

$navbar2

5D. Top of current navbar:
Find:

<!-- breadcrumb, login, pm info -->

Under that add:

$navbar2

vBadvance CMPS using vB 3.5 or higher. To get this working with the homepage you will have to do the following.

Go into your ADMINCP-->vBa CPMS-->Default Setting-->Portal Output Global Variables and add navbar2 in the block there and save it.

Arcaded hack. You will need to go into your darcaded hack and edit a line. Here are the directions:
Go to you arcade/functions/functions.php
open it with a text editor:
Find:

global $header, $vbphrase, $vboptions, $stylevar, $headinclude, $bbuserinfo, $session, $show, $pmbox;
global $forumjump, $timezone, $logincode, $_USEROPTIONS, $scriptpath, $admincpdir, $modcpdir, $quickchooserbits;

Replace with:

global $header, $vbphrase, $vboptions, $stylevar, $headinclude, $bbuserinfo, $session, $show, $pmbox;
global $forumjump, $timezone, $logincode, $_USEROPTIONS, $scriptpath, $admincpdir, $modcpdir, $quickchooserbits, $navbar2;

[Rick Sample]

cool, I changed it to <td class="thead">

I think it looks a lot better than 2 red bards now, what do you think?

[attroll]

Originally Posted by muscle-mustangs

cool, I changed it to <td class="thead">

I think it looks a lot better than 2 red bards now, what do you think?

Yes it looks good. I am glad you got it all worked out.

[chrisvonc]

Hi, I just installed the 2nd option you worked up for the additional navbar to be directly above the welcome panel. Very nice, thank you!

I am seeing one issue... the table border became twice at thick and is not bordered along the top edge. Any clues? This is a vB 3.0.1 forum. here is a shot of what I mean.

Thanks!

[attroll]

Originally Posted by chrisvonc

Hi, I just installed the 2nd option you worked up for the additional navbar to be directly above the welcome panel. Very nice, thank you!

I am seeing one issue... the table border became twice at thick and is not bordered along the top edge. Any clues? This is a vB 3.0.1 forum. here is a shot of what I mean.

Thanks!

I looked at your site and noticed that the border colors are the same as the background color so people should not see a different color. It should blend right in. I just played with it and the outside borders are the same size on mine with and without this hack. So you must mean the think black line under the link names?

If that is what you are talking about. I tried fixing that and could not figure it out. I will have to play with it some more.

[chrisvonc]

Oopps.. I had installed it on my local dev forum. Its now on the production site so you can see it live.

Yes, sorry I didnt explain it correctly, the line under the new links seems to be double thick.

Thanks!

[attroll]

Originally Posted by chrisvonc

Oopps.. I had installed it on my local dev forum. Its now on the production site so you can see it live.

Yes, sorry I didnt explain it correctly, the line under the new links seems to be double thick.

Thanks!

Yes that was what I thought you meant.

I played with that for one hour last night and could not figure it out. I think it has something to do with putting a table within a table. But can not inderstand why the bottom one does not do that.

[Anub1s]

also i was waiting for something like this

a lot of thanks =D

[RichieBoy67]

Great..Just installed... This hack helps me big time because my navbar is so hard to add anything too..

Thanks!!

[The Realist]

Installed - Thanks.

[Rich]

Hello,
I have been playing with this,and I placed it under my current navbar. My question is,how do I remove the space between the 2? I want them to sit directly underneath one another without any space. Currently,there is a space the width of a navbar.