[UCP] Navigation & Profile (template) hack

[Floris]

User Control Panel Navigation > Icon, Link & Profile Hack

What does this one do?
Actually three things!
a) Replaces the '>'-text from the top navigation with an '>'-icon
b) This will make the words: 'User Control Panel' from the top navigation clickable
c) Displays which users control panel is viewed and made the username clickable (result = profile of that user)

Why did you make this?
Why not
Everytime I changed my profile, I wanted to see the result. I had to load the memberlist up again and search my username in it and click on it. Now when I saved my profile, I get swooped back to the Control Panel's home where I can directly click on it for result.

The Code
Walkthrough:

• Goto the Admin Control Panel and login as an administrator
• From the left menu, browse down to the "Template"-section and select 'Modify'
• Click on 'Expand' and browse down to the "User Control Panel Templates" and click 'Expand' again
• Click on 'edit' from "usercp"
• Find:
  

  <!-- breadcrumb -->
  <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="{[i][/i]contenttablewidth}" {[i][/i]tableinvisibleextra} align="center">
  <tr>
  	<td><img src="{[i][/i]imagesfolder}/vb_bullet.gif" align="middle" alt="vBulletin">
  	<normalfont><b><a href="index.php?s=$session[sessionhash]">$bbtitle</a> &gt;
  	User Control Panel For $bbuserinfo[username]</b></normalfont></td>
  	<td align="right">$forumjump</td>
  </tr>
  </table>
  <!-- /breadcrumb -->

• And replace that with:
  

  <!-- breadcrumb -->
  <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="{[i][/i]contenttablewidth}" {[i][/i]tableinvisibleextra} align="center">
  <tr><td>
  <img src="{[i][/i]imagesfolder}/vb_bullet.gif" align="middle" alt="$bbtitle">
   <normalfont><b>
  <a href="index.php?s=$session[sessionhash]">$bbtitle</a> 
  <img src="images/nav.gif" align="middle"> <a href="usercp.php?s=$session[sessionhash]">
  User Control Panel</a>
   &[i][/i]nbsp;&[i][/i]nbsp;&[i][/i]nbsp;&[i][/i]nbsp;&[i][/i]nbsp; User: 
  <a href="member.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=getinfo&userid=$bbuserinfo[userid]">
  $bbuserinfo[username]</a></b></normalfont></td>
  <td align="right">$forumjump</td></tr></table>
  <!-- /breadcrumb -->

• Click on 'Save' and go see if it worked!

Uhm, when I click the other links in the Control Panel, the new icon doesn't show up! What is wrong?
This template hack is only for the 'My vB Home' -section!

version?
Tested with vBulletin 2.2.x and works like a charme.

The result
This is how it looks now, on my web site

[Floris]

The nav.gif image

And here is the nav.gif image which you need to put in your publick_html/forum/images/ dir

(right-click mouse > save as..)

[Airwaves]

how do you get the image to appear everywhere else aswell (the arrow image that is)?

thanks in advance !

[Floris]

Originally posted by Airwaves
how do you get the image to appear everywhere else aswell (the arrow image that is)?

thanks in advance !

I apply that arrow replace-hack on other templates too. (and there are a few)

[Airwaves]

being a dumass, can you please tell me which ones and where please?

and also the code, i see that it will be slightly different to the one you posted above? because its not usercp.php this time is it?

[Floris]

Originally posted by Airwaves
being a dumass, can you please tell me which ones and where please?

and also the code, i see that it will be slightly different to the one you posted above? because its not usercp.php this time is it?

Just browse over your forum, and where you see the > instead of nav.gif, just try to search for that template. And instead of the &gt code, put this image: <img src="images/nav.gif" align="middle"> and save the template.

[Airwaves]

you dont know off hand where they are then?

the one on the posts and when you click a forum category and inthe user cp ?

cheers

[c-prompt]

In "navbar" template

Find

> $navbits

Replace &gt; with your arrow button.

Then in "nav_joiner" replace what is there with your arrow image as well.

[Floris]

Originally posted by Airwaves
you dont know off hand where they are then?

the one on the posts and when you click a forum category and inthe user cp ?

cheers

Login to the admin control panel and goto the template section, click on search and enter &gt; as a search term .. No, I do not know them by head, but you can guess too. announcement, wol, errors, faqs, .. there are enough that are not linked to the navbar bit.

[Airwaves]

thanks

[VeRTeX]

great hack, thanks alot once again

your "how to" series of modifications is becoming my favourite, keep them coming = ]

[Floris]

I think I have bad news. They are great, because I saw those stuff on other web site's and I wanted it too, and had to figure it out from scratch. I put them together and posted them. But currently I am not working anything that can be published publicly. But who knows that the future brings. With vB3 around the corner, ..

[Xelation]

worked like a charm, Thanks once again for your great template edits!

[Floris]

Originally posted by Xelation
worked like a charm, Thanks once again for your great template edits!

Xelation A special secret thank you for your worthy donation

[Xelation]

Originally posted by xiphoid
Xelation A special secret thank you for your worthy donation

np