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[HOW TO - vB4] Create a New Tab in the navbar
Here's a pretty simple method for creating a new tab in the navbar, along with a submenu to go along with it. All you need is a unique condition for when your tab will be shown. What you will be making is a plugin to create the Nav Link along with a submenu which Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, and Drop Down which then drops down and has SubLink 1, SubLink 2, and SubLink 3. This is shown below. NOTE: This is for 4.0.x and 4.1.x. In 4.2.x, you should be using the Navigation Manager. This article is NOT to be used just to add another link to a submenu. It is for creating the Nav Link tab along with all the submenus. Again, if all you want is to add submenus to an existing tab, then this article is NOT for you!!! This article is also for use by users who understand the basics of conditions and can write them. The navbar is not really an easy thing to play with if you don't know what you are doing - I think even Wayne said it had issues - so don't try this if you don't understand how to write a condition. OK, with that out of the way.... Here's the basic template for making your new tab: Create a plugin (Plugins & Products) > Add New Plugin: hook location - process_templates_complete * Title - New Tab for Navbar Execution Order - 5 (* I used to have this listed as global_state_check but then noticed vb themselves use the process_templates_complete hook location, so I changed it.) PHP Code:
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ragtek also posted an article to do the same thing only using a template with the plugin - [HOW TO - vB4] Create a New Tab in the navbar (with template) Originally posted on vb.org 2009-10-27. Other related articles of possible interest: [HOW TO - vB4] Remove the vB Default Navtabs [HOW TO - vB4] Create your own vBulletin page |
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I made a new thread about this. If you can help me please go here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...54#post1924354 |
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Okay, so I was able to add a link to the navbar with this tutorial. But when I click on the link I just got white page and not the result you have in the screenshot. I tried to add link.php from your other tutorial, but it didn't change anything. What am I doing wrong? Sorry for the noob question (:
Edit: Aah, nevermind. In the link.php I was using caps for the template name like in the test.php. Didn't realize it was the template name I created until now that I rechecked the code. |
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This sounds like a problem from your custom page, not this tutorial. You should ask questions about the custom page in the other article, not here (it gets confusing if you mix up articles and problems).
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Do you have to create your own vBulletin page to use this? I created a section and am trying to use this tutorial to go to that section, yet I can't get the navbar to highlight. Here is the code as I have it now (I removed the submenu link code):
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$tabselected = ''; $tablinks = ''; if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'podcast') { $vbulletin->options['selectednavtab']='podcast'; $tabselected = ' class="selected"'; $tablinks = ' <ul class="floatcontainer"> </ul> '; } $template_hook['navtab_end'] .= '<li'.$tabselected.'><a class="navtab" href="/forums/content/116-podcast">Podcast</a>'.$tablinks.'</li>' ; |
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No, you do not need to create your own vB page to use it. Right now, your code shows that your tab should be selected when you are on a page where THIS_SCRIPT is defined as podcast. Perhaps you meant to use something like this instead?
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if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'podcast' Maybe that's where I'm getting confused. How do you define a page as something like 'podcast'? |
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If you replaced it with exactly what you wrote, then yes, you will get a parse error because you are missing the end parenthesis.
At the top of each vb page is something like this: PHP Code:
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17 in the online.php page. And line 17 of the forum.php page defines THIS_SCRIPT for that page to be 'index'. And for content.php, THIS_SCRIPT is defined at 'vbcms'. I believe any page in vb that you can land on has got THIS_SCRIPT defined at the top. And you don't want to replace those lines, I'm not sure why you would think you would want to do that. Those lines are there so you can write conditions like the one I use for when you are on that page. If you wrote your own page, you would give it your own definition for THIS_SCRIPT. |
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