Users Can create their own drop down list in navbar

This hack is part of Lesson #6 of my Using the PHPINCLUDE_START template" tutorial thread. It is presented here individually. While techinically a user feature, it is put here with mini-mods since it requires no code edits. Instead you have 2 template edits: navbar and phpinclude_start. You must also add a user profile field.

For a more complete explaination of the code please visit the tutorial thread.

AND NOW THE HACK...

To begin create a user profile field that is multiple text lines and has a character limit of at least 2000. Note the user profile field # the system assigns to the new field - you'll need it below.

Once you do that crack into your navbar and look for this code:

			<!-- nav buttons bar -->
				<div align="center">
					<table class="thead" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
						<tr align="center">
							<if condition="$show['popups']">

Immediately after add.

								<if condition="!empty($mylinks)">
									<td id="mylinks" class="vbmenu_control"><a href="#mylinks">My Links</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("mylinks"); </script></td>		
								</if>

Next look for this code in the navbar

	<!-- / NAVBAR POPUP MENUS -->

Immediately above it insert the following code

<if condition="!empty($mylinks)">
<!-- My Links Menu -->
	<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="mylinks_menu" style="display:none"> 
 		<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0"> 
			$mylinks
		</table> 
	</div>
<!-- /My Links -->
</if>

Now insert the following into PHPINCLUDE_START at either the very start or the very end.

PHP Code:

if (!empty($bbuserinfo['fieldX']))
    {
    require_once('./includes/functions_bbcodeparse.php');
    $mylinks = parse_bbcode2($bbuserinfo['fieldX'], 0, 0, 0, 1);
    $mylinks = str_replace('<br />', '', $mylinks);
    $mylinks = str_replace('</a>', '</a></td></tr>', $mylinks);
    $mylinks = str_replace('<a', '<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a', $mylinks);    
    } 

You will need to plug the correct user profile field # into the spot occupied by "fieldX" above. So if your new profile field created above was field #9 you'd refer to $bbuserinfo['field9']

And with that you're done. Enjoy.

Compatibility Note
If you are running a version of vbulletin prior to version 3.0.3 you'll need to run a database query in order to have field lengths longer than 250 characters. This query is:

ALTER TABLE userfield MODIFY COLUMN fieldX TEXT

You'll need to change fieldX to the field# appropriate to your forums.

[jluerken]

Sounds cool. A screenshot would be nice.

[Polo]

Thank you Michael Morris, I may use this

[Michael Morris]

Originally Posted by jluerken

Sounds cool. A screenshot would be nice.

Two added.

Note, minor glitch found for RC4 - you can't have user input fields beyond 500 characters or so (odd). I presume this is fixed in later versions.

[Koutaru]

Could this be domain specific (ie it can only be your domain they link to?

[Michael Morris]

Not without major recoding. This simply takes advantage of an existing vbulletin mechanic (the url tag) and uses it to create the links for a new feature.

[ericgtr]

Originally Posted by Koutaru

Could this be domain specific (ie it can only be your domain they link to?

Very cool, clicks install for near future use, thanks!

[???`S?LV?R???`]

nice hack

[docvader]

works nicely. Only thing I've found is that if you don't put bb codes in that box correctly, it can make your browser hang up. Otherwise, nice addition.

[OrangeFlea]

Nice Hack!!!!!!!!

(cool, you're from Enworld? We have our banner on your webring. That's awesome.)