Miscellaneous Hacks - navbar forumjump dropdown

This is beta, and I won't support it.

What does this do?

This will add a dropdown to your navbar that lists the forums below a parent forum.

On my bro's site we have a list of 12 worksheets, and each worksheet is a forum. We needed a list of all 12 worksheets for quick navigation. Instead of me getting emails every time they make a forum change, the dropdown is now auto updated, populated and I don't have to worry those emails anymore.

It uses forumcache (tnx danny) so it won't add a query to each page, unless it needs to.

===== TEMPLATE CHANGES =====
Open the template: navbar, and find this code:

<if condition="$show['registerbutton']">

Above this, add the following code:

<td id="navforums" class="vbmenu_control"><a href="$show[nojs_link]#navforums">Pick a Forum!</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("navforums"); </script></td>

Then find this code:

<!-- / NAVBAR POPUP MENUS -->

And above this, add the following code:

<!-- popup navforums -->
    <div class="vbmenu_popup" id="navforums_menu" style="display:none">
        <table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
            <tr><td class="thead">Quickly jump to one of the forums</td></tr>
                $navbarforum
        </table>
    </div>
    <!-- / popup navforums -->

And save the template.

===== PLUGIN =====
Create a new plugin in the global_start hook location, call it navbarforums and give it this code:

if (is_array($vbulletin->forumcache))
{
    foreach ($vbulletin->forumcache AS $forum)
    {
          if ($forum[parentid] == 7)
          {
        $navforumid = $forum[forumid];
                $navforumtitle = $forum[title]; 
                $navbarforum .= "<tr><td class=\"vbmenu_option\"><a href=\"forumdisplay.php?f=".$navforumid."\" rel=\"nofollow\">".$navforumtitle."</a></td></tr>";
          }
    }
}
else
{
       $navbarforums = $db->query_read("
        SELECT forumid, title
        FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "forum
        WHERE parentid = '7'
        ");

        while ($navbarresult = $db->fetch_array($navbarforums))
        {
            $navforumid = $navbarresult[forumid];
            $navforumtitle = $navbarresult[title];
            $navbarforum .= "<tr><td class=\"vbmenu_option\"><a href=\"forumdisplay.php?f=".$navforumid."\" rel=\"nofollow\">".$navforumtitle."</a></td></tr>";
        }
}

Find the if ($forum[parentid] == 7) to point to your forumid
(that means, change the 7 to your PARENT forumid, as it will get all the childforums below this parent)

And you're done.

Q : Does it list the subforums below the forums too?
A : No, only the first level forums below the parentid.

Q : My list is too long!
A : Your parentid has a lot of forums.

[Apoco]

wtf no plugin or products? >_>

Why are there no phrases?

[Apoco]

Screenshot? Live Demo? Anything? I don't understand

[Hornstar]

A demo site or a screen shot would be great to see it in action. Thanks.

[bashy]

Originally Posted by Apoco

wtf no plugin or products? >_>

Why are there no phrases?

===== PLUGIN =====
Create a new plugin, call it navbarforums and give it this code:

[Floris]

Originally Posted by Apoco

wtf no plugin or products? >_>

Why are there no phrases?

This is no product, hence why it isn't added as a product. It has no phrases, it is a beta. So there's no need to make this a product. It is a plugin, the instructions say to create a new plugin. So no need to add a plugin.xml as you have to edit the code anyway. Takes away one step during install.

Originally Posted by Apoco

Screenshot? Live Demo? Anything? I don't understand

There's no need for a demo, it is a dropdown .. and it has the same forum titles listed as the forums below the parent you've picked, just conv. listed in a dropdown for quick access.

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

A demo site or a screen shot would be great to see it in action. Thanks.

Take a look at any dropdown on any vb powered site in the navbar, that's how it would look, only now with titles from forum names.

Originally Posted by bashy

===== PLUGIN =====
Create a new plugin, call it navbarforums and give it this code:

exactly

[Darat]

What hook location for the plugin?

[teeech]

I got the code placed correctly but I don't get a list of forums. I changed the parent ID to accomodate one of my forum id's but no dice.

also, would I repeat a portion of the code if I wanted to display multiple "parents"?

I understand you don't support this, but I'd appreciate a little help from anyone that's got it working properly.

[Floris]

global_start, as the navbar is for every page

[Ramsesx]

Nice and thanks, but sad doesn't work on a vba cmps index page. For people who asked for a screenshot, have a look to the attached one. Oh, and I saw it now, attention it's listening hidden forums for all users (guests) too.