Staff Contact

This is my first mod so please be gentle!

Tested on Vb3.50 & Vb3.52

Install Time 2 mins
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STAFF CONTACT For VB3.5.x
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DESC: This email you staff by just a click of the dropdown menu in the forum's navbar.
Viewable be usergroups you select.

1 Template Edit: Navbar

You can change usergroups by editing: Change the # with yours

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == '5' OR $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == '6' OR $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == '7'">

Or add Usergroups by adding:

OR $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == '#'

(change '#' with your usergroup number)

To add more staff Cateogries add:

<tr><td class="thead">Contact Admins</td></tr>

(change 'Contact Admins' to your staff's Title)

To add more staff add:

<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="mailto:ME@YOU.com">MASTAR</a></tr></td>

(change 'ME@YOU' to your staff's email address)

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In NavBar Template
FIND:
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 <if condition="$show['member']">
      <td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="usercp.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[user_cp]</a></td>
    </if>

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ADD UNDER
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<!-- Admins Menu -->
 <if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == '5' OR $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == '6' OR $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == '7'">
<td id="admins" class="vbmenu_control"><a href="#admins">STAFF</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("admins"); </script></td> </if>
<!-- Admins Menu -->

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Still In NavBar Template
FIND:
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<!-- NAVBAR POPUP MENUS -->

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ADD UNDER
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<!-- Admins Menu -->
 <div class="vbmenu_popup" id="admins_menu" style="display:none">
    <table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">

  <tr><td class="thead">Contact Admins</td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="mailto:ME@YOU.com">MASTAR</a></tr></td>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="mailto:ME@YOU.com">MASTAR</a></tr></td>
  <tr><td class="thead">Contact Super Mods</td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="mailto:ME@YOU.com">MASTAR</a></tr></td>
  <tr><td class="thead">Contact Mods</td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="mailto:ME@YOU.com">MASTAR</a></tr></td>

</table>
</if>
  </div>

<!-- Admins Menu -->

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That's It!
!CLICK INSTALL!
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[G-Force 199]

The first Install clicked

[portalimiz]

congrats
i installed

[Tony G]

Decent idea, thanks for sharing.

[Corriewf]

Looks good but can you use BB format for your code instead of just regular text?

[ShadowOne]

Is There A Way I Can Add This To A Table Instead?

[kall]

By default, this hack allows staff to contact other staff.. wouldn't it be more useful to allow OTHER groups to contact staff?

[COBRAws]

It would be more suitable if it used the sendmessage.php

Why? Because not everyone has an email program installed. IE: Cybercafes, etc

[Mastar]

Originally Posted by kall

By default, this hack allows staff to contact other staff.. wouldn't it be more useful to allow OTHER groups to contact staff?

You can customize it however you want, add usergroups, change usergroups howeva you want.

I intitally was going in that direction, but changed my mind.

Originally Posted by COBRAws

It would be more suitable if it used the sendmessage.php

Why? Because not everyone has an email program installed. IE: Cybercafes, etc

If you use hotmail, msn, yahoo, which ever you use as your default email reader/fetcher/client.

I didn't use sendmessage.php because I didn't want to go the site.

[JsnakeJ]

Its not as 'safe' to give out their emails like that as it would be to just go through the sendmessage.php page.

Good idea but I don't think my forum needs it.