[CMS] Nav/Subnav

[Blade-uk]

As you can see on vbulletin 4, when you click on home, you are greeted with a sub nav relevant to that.

When you click on forum, you are greeted with a sub nav relevant to that (New Posts, Private Messages, FAQ etc...)

Blogs is the same (Recent Entries etc...)

The question i have, is that i've added some static pages on the CMS and want to add it onto the nav bar such as one called "About" and i want the nav bar to show "Advertising" and "Andy's Rig" and "Benchmarking".

I've had to use a modification just to get the tabs to show in the nav bar, but i'm wondering if there is anything that the vb team suggest to add tabs and for the sub nav to work how i want just like the standard (Home, Forum, Blogs) functions do?

Thanks,

Andy

[Blade-uk]

Anyone? Hoping to get this move from wordpress to vbulletin cms sorted fairly soonish

Andy

[Lynne]

I'm not sure what you want from us... you either need to use a modification or write a plugin to add a new navtab. I wrote an article over on vb.org on how to write a plugin to do this, and as you said, you found a modification. Right now, that is how to add a navtab and submenu.

[reefland]

If you just want the page to show up in the navigation, edit the static page and chose to Make Available in Subnav. Then you can go into your sections edit page and in the subnav box chose to display that page.

[Blade-uk]

I've found a tab mod called vBH New Tabs Options but that only adds a main tab on the nav bar.

I want it so that when you click on Home it says the relevant sections but when you click on About it comes up with the sections relevant to that, but nothing else.

Examples are, as standard (on this site):

Home subnavs are - What's NewHow To: Install/UpgradeHow To: Styling/ThemingHow To: CMS
Forum subnavs are - New PostsPrivate MessagesFAQCalendarCommunity Forum Actions Quick Links
Blogs subnavs are - Recent EntriesMost PopularMember Blogs

I want a tab called about so that it's:

About subnavs are - Advertising Andy's Rig Benchmarking Contact

Make sense?

Andy

[reefland]

Try this out:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=246687

[Blade-uk]

Try this out:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=246687

Took a lot at that, but it seems that the child nav (subnav) will be the same no matter what tab you are on? I want different sub navs for different tabs?

Andy

[Lynne]

I've got an article that tells you how to write a plugin to do just what you want. You will have to understand conditions though since you need to write a condition that details when the subnav shows up.

[reefland]

Another option:

Create a section called About. Place all of your articles in that section and write one main article and choose to Show Entire Article on Section Page. Place all of the articles in that section and chose to make them all available for subnav. Then just create a regular navbar button with a link to the About section.

[Blade-uk]

I've got an article that tells you how to write a plugin to do just what you want. You will have to understand conditions though since you need to write a condition that details when the subnav shows up.

Got a link to that article please?

Andy

[Lynne]

[HOW TO - vB4] Create a New Tab in the navbar

[Blade-uk]

Thanks Lynne,

Having some trouble with that though. I don't want a drop down menu by the way, just a few subnav links

My code consists of:

$tabselected = '';
$tablinks = '';
if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'About')
{
    $vbulletin->options['selectednavtab']='About Us';
    $tabselected = ' class="selected"';
    $tablinks = '                <ul class="floatcontainer">
                        <li><a href="http://forums.eteknix.com/content.php?100-Advertising">Advertising</a></li>
                        <li><a href="http://forums.eteknix.com/content.php?104-Andys-Rig">Andys Rig</a></li>
                        <li><a href="http://forums.eteknix.com/content.php?105-Benchmarking">Benchmarking</a></li>
                        <li><a href="http://forums.eteknix.com/sendmessage.php">Contact</a></li>
                        <li><a href="http://forums.eteknix.com/content.php?107-Support">Support</a></li>
                </ul> ';

} 
$template_hook['navtab_end'] .= '<li'.$tabselected.'><a class="navtab" href="http://forums.eteknix.com/content.php?86-about">About Us</a>'.$tablinks.'</li>' ;

The subnav links aren't showing at all though, as you can see here - http://forums.eteknix.com/content.php if you click on About Us, it doesn't select it either, it just goes back to the Home tab selected.

Andy

[reefland]

That's because you don't have a script that is defined as 'About'. That really only works if you have a custom .php file.

[Blade-uk]

So how would i get it working how i want?

Scrap that, reefland, how did you do the drop down on your site? as i'm happy with the way that it looks on Nation of Blue?

Andy

[reefland]

Here you go:

<li class="popupmenu"><a href="javascript://" class="popupctrl navtab">Tab Name</a>

<ul class="popupbody popuphover">
<li><a style="text-indent: 0px; color:{vb:stylevar navbar_selected_popup_body_a_Color}" href="http://www.link1.com/">Link 1</a></li>
<li><a style="color:{vb:stylevar navbar_selected_popup_body_a_Color}" href="http://www.link2.com/">Link 2</a></li>
<li><a style="color:{vb:stylevar navbar_selected_popup_body_a_Color}" href="http://www.link3.com/">Link 3</a></li>
<li><a style="color:{vb:stylevar navbar_selected_popup_body_a_Color}" href="http://www.link4.com">Link 4</a></li>
</ul>
</li>

Place that where you want it to show in the Navbar template.