Administrative and Maintenance Tools - [phd] -- Mod / Admin CP Browser

Pre-Amble

This modification will allow the forums Administration and Moderation teams to browse the forum, or the web, from the comfort of their Moderation / Administration Control Panel.

Why would you want this? Not only will this keep your moderators and administrators in their control panel more, but it makes using the control panel a much less time consuming task. They're able to simply and quickly hit a button to perform their tasks, as opposed to logging into the control panel to do each thing.

Admin CP

Upload the files inside the attached .ZIP, and that's it.

The files should look like this...

/forums/cpb_browse.php
/forums/includes/xml/cpnav_cpb.xml

The /forums/ is very important!
Feel free to edit the files if you don't want to put it in a /forums/ directory, just edit out the /forums/ inside the XML using Notepad

Code based on this modification

Mod CP

This is a simple coding edit, and I owe Ragtek the respect he deserves for his thread on this [His Thread]

Simply go to Plugins & Products -> Add New Plugin in your Admincp, and enter in the following values.

Product: vBulletin
Hook: mod_index_navigation
Title: Moderation Control Panel Browser
Execution Order: 5
Plugin PHP Code :

construct_nav_option('Forum Home', '/forums/');
        construct_nav_option('Enter URL', '/forums/cpb_browse.php');
        construct_nav_group('ModCP Browser');
        construct_nav_spacer();

Plug is Active: Yes

This is all you need to add the required links to the ModCP.
Lets get into some customizations though, as you can see that my cpb_browse.php is located inside a /forums/ folder (something I dont like, but the person I did this for does).

Simply change the /forums/ part to whatever you like,
/ for the servers root
/forums/ for the forums directory off the forums root
You get the picture.

[mrtroybaker]

Screen shot? Mod sounds great.

[Jasem]

Good work, thank you

Installed

[Alexey?]

Sounds nice.
do you have any screenshot?

[Jaiibee]

Screenshots have been added.

[mrtroybaker]

Maybe its just me but "phd_browse.php" isnt in the folder I downloaded. I am assuming "cpb_browse" is the file being refered to. Also, where does this go?

"construct_nav_option('Forum Home', '/forums/');
construct_nav_option('Enter URL', '/forums/cpb_browse.php');
construct_nav_group('ModCP Browser');
construct_nav_spacer();

[Jaiibee]

Please put that into code tags.
Yes, I did mean cpb, however I made a mistake and said phd. Sorry about that, I've editted my original post.

That code is what is put into the plugins PHP code.
Go to Plugins & Products -> Add New Plugin
and add it in there.

[mrtroybaker]

Thank you very much

[Riceman]

Sounds like a great mod, thank you. Good luck with any of your future mods.

[TheLastSuperman]

I've done this w/ less edits, no file uploads and the extra links too... I would have to track down how I did it.. been so long but HATS OFF for making the mod

S-MAN