Forum Home Enhancements - Dropdown Menu box for Links/Urls

As a result of this post https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...82#post1697782

I've come up with a small modification that will allow admins to include a small dropdown box in the forum discription. With this mod you will be able to add a few or hundreds of urls and links without filling up your forum.




This is really easy, all you need to do is to copy the following code to notepad on your PC and save it as subnav.js

function go_nav() {
	
  if (document.getElementById && document.createTextNode) {	
	
	var user_link = document.getElementById("my_links").value;	
    
	window.location = user_link;
	
	return false;
	
  }
  
}

or you can just download the zip file

then you need to upload the subnav.js file to your forums root directory.

The next stage is the code where you edit your urls etc...

<div id="drop_box_nav">
<form action="#" onsubmit="return go_nav();">
<select name="my_links" id="my_links">
  <option value="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk">UKBusinesslive Store</option>
  <option value="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/topsite">Topsite</option>
  <option value="http://www.google.com">Google</option>
  <option value="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/links/">UKBL Links</option>
</select>
&nbsp;&nbsp;
<input type="submit" name="sub_nav" id="sub_nav" value="Go to URL" />
</form>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="subnav.js"></script>

Within that code you need to edit your urls and description in the option values

 <option value="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk">UKBusinesslive Store</option>

I've only done 4 in the above but you can add as little or as many as you need by simply adding more option values as in the code above.

Once you've saved your edit, you can upload it to a forum, what i did was to create a new forum called "Quick Links" and then paste all of that code into the Forum Description.

Thats all there is to it, Feel free to experiment with this and remember to post a link here if you want to show off your new dropbox.

Enjoy



*****************************UPDATE*************** *******************
4th Jan 2009

Please find below an .xml file, This is the Menubox done within a Module for vBa

It's the actual module with the default url still in place. (You need to edit these - Unless you want a link to my site )
Anyone with vBa3 can upload it via the vBa control panel.
Lower versions of vBa may need to edit the .xml file.
REMEMBER you still need to upload the subnav.js file to your forum root

Many Thanks to Mal for this Code

Enjoy
*****************************UPDATE*************** *******************

12 January 2009

To Open in new Browser Window

To get the link to open in a new browser window, what you do is add the target="_blank" attribute to your link tag, like this in your Menu Links area

<option value="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk" target="_blank">UKBusinesslive Store</option>

If you do that to the ones that you want to open in a new window, then you don't navigate away from your site

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by Sunka

Installed, but also NOT open link in new tab.
Tried with and without / in the end of link, but it is same...link open in same window.
I think that is something within javascript where should be fix that.

There is a bit of a nightmare getting the link to open in a new window, its a javascript problem and i've tried all different methods of opening a new window using javascript but i can't seem to hit the nail on the head, so if one of you brilliant JS coders could take a look

[betts02]

for some reason with or without the / when clicked it just re-freshes my page.nothing else.any help please ?

[betts02]

anyone know why above is happening and it is not working for me ?

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by betts02

anyone know why above is happening and it is not working for me ?

Not heard of that one before, Are you sure you've installed it correctly?

[betts02]

<a href="http://nextgenerationgamers.co.uk/forums/" target="_blank">http://nextgenerationgamers.co.uk/forums/</a>

as you can see i have it all set up mate,installed it as posted but nothing works.any help or advice would be great,click installed,etc when it works for me.

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by betts02

http://nextgenerationgamers.co.uk/forums/

as you can see i have it all set up mate,installed it as posted but nothing works.any help or advice would be great,click installed,etc when it works for me.

Did you copy the 1st code into a new file called subnav.js ?? and uploaded this to your forum root?? Or use the one in the zip file ?

The problem you have is the HTML code part (the second code ) cannot see the javascript file in your forums root (subnav.js)

Nice forum by the way :up:

[betts02]

got it working,my fault.put it in wrong section in root.
anyway is it possible to have it so it shows links in alphabetical order without doing it yourself ?

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by betts02

got it working,my fault.put it in wrong section in root.
anyway is it possible to have it so it shows links in alphabetical order without doing it yourself ?

Glad you got it working Don't forget to to click installed

You'll need to arrange them in alphabetical order yourself i'm afriad, shouldn't take long with cut and paste

[betts02]

cheers mate.
tagged
installed
nominated

[dentopolis]

Hello,

Excuse me, What is the name of the template of example's picture at first page?

Thank you