Miscellaneous Hacks - Multiple Navbars

There is always a demand for increased navigation from your vB Board. This modification has been tested on 3.6.x, 3.7.x and 3.8.x

Hardcoding a menu is the best way to add the increased functionaility, without adding server load and queries. This template modificiation explains how to add additional simple navbars to your website. By utilising exisitng vB code from within the Navbar template, the menu will appear on all pages, including in add-ons such as vBa and Photoplog and Photopost.


A working expample can be found at Midlands Weather Forum

The basis of the navigation bar (refered to as the 'Main Code') is as follows:

<!-- nav2 buttons bar by Optrex-->
 
<div align="center">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style="border-top-width:0px">
<tr align="center">
 
 
<!--compile your links within this space, using the section types below -->
 
 
</tr>
</table>
</div>
 
<!-- / nav2 buttons bar by Optrex-->

To create a link visible to all usergroups add this code to replace the green section of the main code (above):

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="http://www.yoururlhere.com" >Title of your link</a></td>

To create a link visible only to members add this code to replace the green section of the main code (above):

<if condition="$show['member']">
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="http://www.yoururlhere.com" >Title of your link</a></td>
</if>

Placement is recommended above your existing navbar, due to the "drop down" lists.

Find the following line in your navbar template and place your compiled code above it.

<!-- nav buttons bar -->
<div align="center">

[optrex]

this mod has now been tested with 3.6.3

[alawee.blawee]

Originally Posted by optrex

this mod has now been tested with 3.6.3

and its working so nice
i've tested it and added it with a style has an integrated navbar
look at the demo


thanx opterx

[optrex]

tested with 3.6.4 and working fine

[highlan-cruise]

is there a way of aligning both of the bars so that the links are aligned instead of staggered?

[Magz]

Hi, firstly great mod, id been looking for something like this for a while now.

The only problem ive noticed, is that i use mkportal, and the extra navbar, whils it works flawlessy in my forum pages, it doesnt appear on the mkportal home page.

How can i make it so that it does?

Thanks

[optrex]

Originally Posted by highlan-cruise

is there a way of aligning both of the bars so that the links are aligned instead of staggered?

Cruise, the links are centered, so if you have the same number of links in both bars, they should not be "staggered". You could try creating blank links to help with the spacing.

Originally Posted by Magz

The only problem ive noticed, is that i use mkportal, and the extra navbar, whils it works flawlessy in my forum pages, it doesnt appear on the mkportal home page.
How can i make it so that it does?

Magz, It sounds like mkportal doesn't use the navbar template. So you could try moving the nav bar code to the header. Or mkportal may use its own template system (like mkportal_navbar or mkportal_header for example). In which case you would need to drop the code into the relevant mkportal templates.

Let me know how you get on

[The dman]

optrex
Thanks for this just what the doctor ordered

How can I get the seam between the 2 navbars like your pic

Mine looks like this

[optrex]

Try this dman

style="border-top-width:0px"

or

style="border-bottom-width:0px"

depending on which border you wan to change - the number of px is the border width.

Placement can be seen as here.

Border around navbar: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....29&postcount=7

[gatorenvy]

I am a complete newb to vbulletin. I just installed it today and would like to add this

my forum is www. gatorenvy .com

I just don't know where to find the navbar file to paste the code you provided. I'm just using the default style for now. I don't know where any of the style files are or the header or the navbar. Please help!

[optrex]

Hi Gatro,

Please click install on this thread to show you've installed the product, and to keep up to date with changes.

From your AdminCP
Styles and templates
Style Manager
In default style select "edit templates"
Scroll down to navigation /breadcrumb templates
Double click navbar.

This will get you to your navbar template. Copy and paste the code to a .txt file on your PC so that you can restore it easily if you mess it up.