Menu Control

Hey all,

What is Menu Control?
This modification, installs a second navagation bar below the original one, and best of all, it's admin controllable! Menu Control is a very easy to use modification, and it takes less than a minute to install!

What can I do using Menu Control?
The features of Menu Control include:
* Forum Directory - Ability to change your forum directory
* Nine Customizable Menu Links - Gives the ability to add, modify or remove nine customizeable
Menu Links!
* HTML Ready - Gives the ability to use HTML in the menu links! Add colour or style to your
links!
** On / Off Capability - The ability to turn your menu online and off.
*** Format Techniques - The ability to change the colour of your menu links.
*** External Links - The ability to link to external links from the links in your menu.
**** Window Features - The ability to change how your links open.
**** Colour Switch - The ability to turn the colour of your links on and off.
**** Menu Images - The ability to put an image next to each of your menu items.
**** Menu Image Switch - The ability to turn all images off and on.


* = Features in 1.0
** = Features in 1.1
*** = Features in 1.2
**** = Features in 1.3 Final

How long will it take me to install Menu Control?
Menu Control is a very easy modification to install. It should take no more than 1 minute to install! It comes with a product file, so all you have to do is import the included product file, edit one template and the modification is installed!

Support
For support on this mod, you can go to either:
MgArcade.com

Or

Post in this topic!

Suggestions
Got a suggestion? Post it here, PM me, or email me, I will try my best to include it in a future version.

Credits
Menu Control was Created By: Marky

Other
You must not allow this file for download anywhere but vbulletin.org without the consent of Mark Spiers (Marky)

If you install this modification, please click 'Install' to show your support!

Would you like to donate to me? I'd be extremely grateful, no matter the amount!


Current Version: 1.3

Features in Version 1.3
**** Window Features - The ability to change how your links open.
**** Colour Switch - The ability to turn the colour of your links on and off.
**** Menu Images - The ability to put an image next to each of your menu items.
**** Menu Image Switch - The ability to turn all images off and on.

Features in Version 1.2
*** Format Techniques - The ability to change the colour of your menu links.
*** External Links - The ability to link to external links from the links in your menu.

Features in Version 1.1
** On / Off Capability - The ability to turn your menu on and off.

Thanks,

Marky

[Marky]

Originally Posted by Gripemaster

AWESOME!!! Just EXACTLY what I needed!!!

*Clicks install*

Thank you! :banana:

Hehe glad you liked it
Have fun ^_^

[Developer]

Originally Posted by Marky

hehe - that's called stealing

i give you thread's link not the code so you have to talk with the hack coder

[Developer]

new Suggest
- make the menu controlled by users as private menu from usercp

[erroneus]

I installed menu control and added links like Members list, Home (for vBadvanced portal), Calendar, Who's online in menu control. When I click on Home it logs me out of vBulletin. Could it be because in Menu control I can't add the "?$session[sessionurl]" to the link? That's how all the links are in the vbulletin navbar template. Does that keep you from getting logged out?

My site is www.laredoperformance.com.

[erroneus]

Yeah I'm pretty sure that is the problem. Will I be able to add the session hash to links in Menu Control?

[Marky]

Originally Posted by erroneus

Yeah I'm pretty sure that is the problem. Will I be able to add the session hash to links in Menu Control?

Menu Control uses HTML - so just entering the URL including the session part should work...

[erroneus]

Originally Posted by Marky

Menu Control uses HTML - so just entering the URL including the session part should work...

Nope, didnt work..


"The document name you requested (/forums/memberlist.php$session[sessionurl_q]) could not be found on this server. However, we found documents with names similar to the one you requested."

Menu Control is gonna have to go. I guess it's only good for having links to external sites. Because if you add any vbulletin related links, or even links that'll take you to vbulletin hacks like Arcade, you'll still experience login problems because of the lack of the session hash in the link.

If you look at all the links in the template, they have the session hash:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="faq.php$session[sessionurl_q]" accesskey="5">$vbphrase[faq]</a></td>
		<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="memberlist.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[members_list]</a></td>
		<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

It would be nice if you added a session hash feature. For example, "Would you like to add a session hash to the end of this link? (Yes/No)", then give an explanation why one would wanna do that. Just a suggestion...

[ThePimp]

This would be alot nicer if it just took HTML inputs, and had an input field where you could indicate how many menu items there are.

I don't want all links to be local, some would go to another site entirely.

Just some suggestions. Nice work otherwise.

Also, if no links are set, it should not show at all. Currently it puts a 1px table where the menu should be.

[dutchbb]

Is it possible to wrap the entire bar in a conditional to show it to admins only? Could be evry usefull for admin links, the javascript menus could make it even better. Also agree with the pimp.

Thanks for the work so far, I'll check it out later.

[Marky]

Originally Posted by ThePimp

This would be alot nicer if it just took HTML inputs, and had an input field where you could indicate how many menu items there are.

I don't want all links to be local, some would go to another site entirely.

Just some suggestions. Nice work otherwise.

Also, if no links are set, it should not show at all. Currently it puts a 1px table where the menu should be.

This is the reason I include the online/offline switch

Originally Posted by Triple_t

Is it possible to wrap the entire bar in a conditional to show it to admins only? Could be evry usefull for admin links, the javascript menus could make it even better. Also agree with the pimp.

Usergroups are currently being worked on

Originally Posted by erroneus

Nope, didnt work..


"The document name you requested (/forums/memberlist.php$session[sessionurl_q]) could not be found on this server. However, we found documents with names similar to the one you requested."

Be sure to include your full URL. For example: http://www.mgarcade.com/forum/memberlist.php$session[sessionurl_q]

EDIT: Just seen what you mean't erroneus. I'll include the 'On/off session part' in the next release