vBulletin Mods

Review:
This mod allows you to easily add and remove tabs on the navigation bar using the adminCP. Tabs can appear as "selected" after being clicked, automatically deselecting the other tabs.
You also have the option of indicating which groups are allowed and not allowed to see the tabs via usergroup id.
Tabs may operate as normal select tabs, as drop-down menus. or as links to external sites.

The Hack only use 1 SQL sentence to create All the Menu, no Template edition

This Hack allows you to create tabs at the bar of vBulletin 4.0

Installation:
- Upload all files in the UPLOAD folder to the root of the forum
- Import the product 'product-evbs_sstab_advanced.xml'
- Configure and manage your tabs in the "Tabs vbSoporte" menu in AdminCP
- Do not forget to "Allow Overwrite" if you are Updating to 2.0

20-01-10: ver 1.0

• Create Tabs in vBulletin 4

23-01-10: ver 2.0

• Create/Manager Tabs Drop Down
• Create/Manager Sublinks for Tabs
• Option to Disable FORUM, HOME, BLOG, WHAT'S NEW Defaults vBulletin Tabs and not delete their sublinks menu
• Phrases in native English and all phrases are in variables
• Code with new algorithm for better performance
• Spanish Language (sstab_advanced_spanish.xml)

23-01-10: ver 2.0.1

• Fix some bugs
• Work with vBadvanced CMPS Menu

23-01-10: ver 2.0.2

• Fix menu Tab mix problem
• Define some Rules:
  1. If TABS is a menu -> No process Sublink
  2. If MENU TAB no have Item -> No Process

27-01-10: ver 2.0.3

• Change Title Size from 20 to 50 characters
• Fix Error when not have Tabs
• Add 2 phrases that I forgot to include in the last version
• Fix Groups Permission when is a TAB MENU or TAB with SUBLINK
• Add MultiScript
• Option to TABMODE (THIS_SCRIPT, URL,URL_PARAMETER) Please, READ POST #2
• membergroup with a list and checkbox (option to SET Colums in Config)

12-May-10: ver 2.0.4 (Compatible with vB 4.0.3)

• Fix What's News
• Add Option to ser Imagen to tabs
• Credits in footer can be disable from Option Panel
• Fix Calendar problem
• Fix Option to URL_PARAMETER

19-Jan-11: ver 2.0.5 (Compatible with vB 4.1.1)

• Fix All Hide Options
• Allow to use Phrase as Titles (RULES)
  • If the "Phrase Variable Name" don't exist, them use the TITLE

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About URL_PARAMETER
To use this Option only Write the Part that Always repeat, por example for this URLs:

1. http://x.com/showthread.php?1-Nuevo (Main thread)
2. http://x.com/showthread.php?1-Nuevo&p=13#post13 (Post in thread)
3. http://x.com/showthread.php?1-Nuevo/page2 (One page of thread)

You Only Set:

1. Tab Label = Any Name
2. URL = http://x.com/showthread.php?1-Nuevo (or only http://x.com/showthread.php?1- that have the ID of thread)
3. Tab mode: URL_PARAMETER

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About Phrases as TITLES
When you create a New Element (Tab, menu, etc) You see a box to put only the variable Phrase name


To create New Phrase go to
Languages & Phrases -> Phrase Manager -> Add New Phrase
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Special Thank to
vB Style Taught me about new the CSS system and help me using CSS standards
dieKetzer Betatester and Translator to native English Language

Observation:

• This Hack is FULL AUTO-TEMPLATE but need the default NAVBAR template to work
• This Hack have copyright ad at the bottom of the page (if you use this)

Spanish Version, (Version en Español, mi lenguaje Primario :D) -> Tabs Add System for vBulletin 4 (sstab advanced)

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How to Add Variables Like userid:
if you need to use vBulletin variables to make URL like http://myurl.com/?u={userid} see this Post
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showp...postcount=1031

Tab mode

URL = With this opcion only the Tab is highlight if match exactly with the URL

if you set "http://www.url.com/showthread.php?59-description"
only with that exactly URL work, then "http://www.url.com/showthread.php?59-description/page2" not macth

URL_PARAMETER = match the URL + Parameters (page=1,etc)
if you set "http://www.url.com/showthread.php?59-description"
then the condition to highlight is
"http://www.url.com/showthread.php?59-description[any, like parameter how /page2, etc]"

THIS_SCRIPT:

That is a Identificator to know with php archive you are load

You can find this open the php archive that you can highlight, for examples:

In calendar.php

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Open showthread.php

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Open Group.php

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

sorry guys, youre on your own with this mod.
i am off to greener pastures; xenforo.com
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update (dec 2011) it appears another coder has made some changes to this mod and made them available. this may fix some issues you are having with this mod.

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this mod is intended for vb4 and its default header navigation template set. if you try to use this on a third-party template set, youre on your own.

quickstart:

in the admin cp under the section 'Tabs vbSoporte' (in the left frame)...

-config - use to turn off/on the default vb tabs, such as forum, whats new, blogs, etc or to turn off the mod, or to change the number of allow/not allow columns to show.

-menu tabs - create a tab for the menu, and decide how it will function.
click 'add new tab' at the bottom and bring up the following
-----tab label - this is the name of the tab, and the text that will appear on the nav tab.
-----this tab is a menu- if you want the tab to activate a drop down list of links, select yes. if you want it to function as a link to a page, leave it set to no.
-----url- if you want this tab to link to a page, enter the url here. if this tab will activate a drop-down menu, leave this blank.
-----tab mode- there are 3 ways to decide how the tabs become 'highlighted', in a selected state:
---------this_script- the most reliable method is to enter the ''this_script' information and select this option. there are cases where tabs will interfere with one another and result in multiple tabs being selected at one time. this is a 'this_script conflict', so you may need to try a url option.
--------url- to instead use the url to enter a selected state, enter an absolute url (ie http://www.example.com/forum/memberlist.php). relative urls (ie /memberlist.php) will fail. do not enter anything into the 'this script' field. (currently bugged)
---------url_parameter- if your url contains parameters (somepage.php?action=1&etc), you will need to select this option. to enter a selected state, enter an absolute url (ie http://www.example.com/forum/memberl...p?action=1&etc). relative urls (ie /memberlist.php) will fail. do not enter anything into the 'this script' field. (currently bugged)
-----set the this_script value- if youre using the 'this_script' method, enter the information here, ie arcade. if you are instead using the one of the url options, leave this blank.
-----target- determines if the link should open a new window or not. _self=same window, _blank=new window. if you are attempting to use javascript* to open a new window you may want to leave this set to _self if extra windows open.
-----allow/not allow- you can make tabs visible to admin-only, invisible for the unregistered, etc.
-----tab is active- you can turn off a tab if need be
-----tab position- use this to position a tabs location on the nav bar relative to the default vb tabs.
-----display order- within each tab position, in what order will these tabs appear in the navigation bar? enter a numeric value. lower numbers appear first, a tab with an order of 10 will appear before one with an order of 20.
*you can set multiple tabs' display orders in one shot on the main menu tab page. remember to click 'save changes' when youre finished.

-drop-down items- if you selected tab is a menu=yes when creating a tab. you can enter its menu items here. a drop-down menu tab and its menu items are not expected to select/highlight.
click 'add item' at the bottom and bring up the following
-----parent tab- which tab is this a menu item for? select it from the list. if the tab is not listed, check to make sure you set its 'tab is a menu' option to yes.
-----menu text- what you want the link to say on the menu.
-----url- the page you want to link to
-----target- determines if the link should open a new window or not. _self=same window, _blank=new window. if you are attempting to use javascript* to open a new window you may want to leave this set to _self if extra windows open.
-----allow/not allow- you can make tabs visible to admin-only, invisible for the unregistered, etc.
-----menu item active- you can turn off a menu item if need be
-----display order- in what order will these tabs appear in the drop down menu? enter a numeric value. lower numbers appear first, a tab with an order of 10 will appear before one with an order of 20.
*you can set multiple menu items' display orders in one shot on the main menu item page. remember to click 'save changes' when youre finished.

-nav sub-links- if you want a horizontal row of links to appear under the tabs when clicking a tab and navigating to a particular page, you may add them here. in order for sub-links to appear, the parent tab must be in a selected state. if you havent managed to get the tab to appear highlighted, your sub-links will not appear.
click 'add item' at the bottom and bring up the following
-----parent tab- which tab is this a sub-link item for? select it from the list. if the tab is not listed, check to make sure you set its 'tab is a menu' option to no.
-----menu text- what you want the link to say on the sub nav bar.
-----url- the page you want to link to
-----target- determines if the link should open a new window or not. _self=same window, _blank=new window. if you are attempting to use javascript* to open a new window you may want to leave this set to _self if extra windows open.
-----allow/not allow- you can make links visible to admin-only, invisible for the unregistered, etc.
-----menu item active- you can turn off a link item if need be
-----display order- in what order will these links appear in the sub nav bar? enter a numeric value. lower numbers appear first, a tab with an order of 10 will appear before one with an order of 20.
*you can set multiple menu items' display orders in one shot on the main nav sub-links item page. remember to click 'save changes' when youre finished.

*about launching javascript windows: RK1gaming found he could get a tab to launch a javascript window by using the following injection as the tab url:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

leave 'target = _self'. this is an unsupported use, but it appears to work.

here are THIS_SCRIPT for things

• vbadvanced home - adv_index
• ispy - vaispy
• vbcms 'content.php' - vbcms
• PhotoPost - ppindex
• links and downloads manager - local_links
• ibProArcade - arcade

to find a this_script:
open the php file (locally, not the webpage!) youre trying to link to and look for this line in the code:

define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'blahblahblah');

insert the blahblahblah into the 'this_script' field (without the quote marks).
although not chiselled in stone, generally this_script is is the same as the script file name.

Examples? with Imagen please

meaning to allow us to dictate the sub-links associated with each button.
for example, how 'forum' has these sublinks ' New Posts | Private Messages | FAQ | Calendar | Community'

thanks, works great - :)

I did not noticed that there are different links depending on tab, I will do that for the next version or for 500 installs

I hope next version, 500 might take a while. I also would like to see sub-tabs.

BUG REPORT:
I can't delete any tabs! Attempting to delete them brings me to an empty admincp page.

Fixed. download again

Thank you for report

Awesome! Definitely installed! I have been waiting for something like this for awhile. :)

Thanks! Do you know how to remove the default tabs by vBulletin? (forum/whats new).

great mod....this will be the easiest way and fantastic if we can also add sub links below...under each tab we create.... ;) thanks anyway...

Thanks, I hope you can update this without having to wait for the 500 installs tho...

tagged for when I upgrade to VB4

500 installs? that will take months.

you also need to add the ability to add drops downs to the tab.



The "admin tools" came from MARCO1 Quick Admin Tools mod in this forum.

I'd rather have no "sub nav" links, and simply the drop downs. Eliminates the need for a sub nav bar.

And, if you can add drop downs, then even drop downs within dropdowns. Sections within sections. So complex menu's can be made.

that too. We need a full tab/nav bar manager, so we can choose what's going to be where. Not vB choosing for us.

Taken note for the next version (ok,ok, not 500 Installs)
* TABS with Drop menu (post #14)
* Sub link for new Tabs (delete all and create the news for the Tab)(post #3 and #14)

Somethings else?

Excellent idea Man :)

How about you add new Navbar menu with option underneath your NabTab?

Thanks.

Excellent, just what I was looking for, thank you.

nice work :up:

nice mod thanks .. chose this one over the others available.. seems nice n easy .. and sounds better with the added suggestions on the next update..

one more if is possible .. any way to be able to give the tab a color .. either just able to color the text or if possible to color the text and/or tab too?

thanks :)

How do you REMOVE vb4 default tabs? I'm looking to remove "Blogs" and "What's New".

Kurt

If you plan to remove Blogs all together, just disabling the blogs plugin in the Products Manager will remove the tab. Otherwise, it's most likely a plugin under the Blogs area.

Hi thank you for this mod :) great job and voted mod of month.

Now can anyone tell me what the "THIS_SCRIPT" would be for vbadvanced please?

Mark :)

Edit: Sorry I found it "adv_index"

Great mod! cheers

OUTSTANDING!!! I have been waiting for just this!

I agree with posts #3 and #14 and I wish you much more then 500 installs :)

Thanks again! :)

this is great
thanks

i love it

I'm tagging this one. If we have dropdowns option for tabs would be perfect.

Any possiblity to get a tab to be marked active if the link is to a section of the CMS?

Like: content.php?118

I have the DROP DOWN System complete (100%)



This is new option for the hack, the first menu (Manager) is the same

when I finish the Sub menu system I going to release a new Version

for the ones who want to remove Whats New tab follow this steps:

AdminCP > Styles and templates > your style > Edit templates >
in the list double click on

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

search for the these lines and remove them

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Save and you're done

Great work!! Such speed on Drop Down too... going to install now and just hope it works as well as it looks/sounds!

Agreed.

:up: :up:

Subnavs are often annoying and vBulletin is way to subnav happy.

This is shaping up to be thee mandatory Tab System for vB 4.
Great addon.
+++ Tagged ... will install ASAP.

This is a very nice mod. Thank you

However, before we keep it...Is there anyway with this mod to add a tab which points to a custom vb powered page and remain selected?

The page is rendered through a vb custom template and is calling some php code from outside vB. The vb powered page includes the tab bar at the top of it so it looks incorrect to see the tab for the page you are on but the forum tab is the one highlighted. I need to make that tab stay selected when on that page.

Oh and x2 on the ability to set the sub menu items based on the selected tab!

Thanks for the nice work!

Anyone using this mod on their site ?
I would like to verify that when you click a Tab made by this mod ... that the Tab Appears Selected. Other TAB mods suffer from this problem.

Currently it does not

If it is an internal page it DOES stay selected. For example if you specify THIS_SCRIPT for a tab to the member list then it does stay selected.

Does not stay selected if it is and external link.

Seems there must be a way for a custom page that is powered by VB which is what my question was in reference to how to do...or if it is possible

ok, figured it out. Forgot the .php on the name.

For those of you that have a vb powered page, all you have to do is DL your php file for that page and open it it wordpad. Towards the top you will find THIS_SCIPT. Right after it will be the name you use.

As long as you define any php file I imagine it will still show selected


Thank you and marking installed! I have used a few nav tab mods and this one is the best for sure. Once the sub menus are able to be changed based on the sleeted tab this will for sure be the definitive tab mod!

Great Mod.
I want to ad a blank between each tab so to space them out. Is there a code for this.
Thanks in advance

Option to create TABS DROP DOWN MENU 100%
Option to create Sublink for TABS 95%
Full Admin System 95%
Testing with my Betatesters (my friends) = 0% :P

When my friends testing the opcion I release this version

Great mod...can anyone touch up the language and re-issue a more English hack version?

I just noticed that when one of the new tabs is activated (added via this hack), the dropdown dialogs on my forum come up white. The links are actually still in there, but hidden. The dropdown arrows also change colour and blend with the background.

See image:

Yes, My friend is oficial translator and he see the Inglish version languaje pack

The new version that I release delete and redefine the Submenu links if you are in a different script of forum or the css

Thanks. Sorry, but did you mean that you will be releasing a new version shortly that fixes this?

Thank you Jhonnyf, great mod. Saludos.

thanks for extending this hack mate. this is proving to be a must have mod for vb4.
MOTM is a no-brainer! great work

if any of you guys reading this are already using a button hack, delete it and install this! you will not regret it.

rate this mod and nominate it guys, it deserves it.

anything new about that?

All It's posible... but for the next, next update

would need this asap ;)

If a donation helps with the time ;) let me know ;)

In the next version, the TABS selected (your own SCRIPT) should be a sublink menu.. not use the default sublinks Menu.

when I try to upload the xml file I get a Is there something I'm doing wrong?

This sounds useful.. and indeed, the tab mods are getting better and better. Tagged for feature version.

Someone can help me with the English Languaje for the plugin?? and testing before release.

PM please to bring access to my forum test and edit phrases :D (and testing)

pm sent

figured it out!

Works great!

Awesome. I uninstalled another similar hack for this one. Great work here.

Thank You, Send MP with Access to my Test Forum

Reserved

No Betatester.... :( maybe I should release like Beta 1

???

I'd be willing to test it on my board if it's in English already. Releasing is a good option as well in my opinion. :)

Updating to version 2.0

i can test it also.

also

I want it highlighted!!!

I just tried it and i have an issue,
only your premade tabs are highlighted, mine the one i created isn't

It was testing and fix the English languaje by dieKetzer

Thank you

Plz can you help me with this issue?
I want to add a tab for portal , (vbadvanced cmps) but it is not highlighted

Work with standard navbar template, sorry but only with that way can do all that this do

THIS SCRIPT
* vbadvanced home - adv_index
* ispy - vaispy

Read Post #3

yes man you are great in script i added :

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

And worked PERFECT you are great

THANKS!!!!!!

but if i want to add some other tabs in order to be highlighted how i can find their scripts?

when you remove a default the tab, like What's New etc, it still appears on vbadvanced pages

It's Because when I developer this hacks I'm not work with vbadvanced...
appears
I Install vbAdvanced now and only see that the only "What's New" still appears

please, confirm that to make the code for delete that

thanks you, but i can't save sublink in 2.0.

It looks others very well.

yeh it's just the What's New tab

yep sublinks arent saved. :(

/e: anything new on the section linking highlited tabs?

like: content.php?118 ?

Update Again, Fix the Sublink Save Problem and Now Delete "What's news" Tab from vbAdvanced

Yea there is definitely a glitch when you have multiple dropdowns. I had one drop down added successfully and everything was fine. I added a new one and my first one disappeared. My new one inherited the links of the old one. I can't seem to have two dropdowns at once.

I hope this is fixed because I am absolutely loving this hack! Thanks!

please, delete the tabs menu and child that you create witch version 2.0, the error do thaty the sublink became in Tabs Drop Down

You can Create many TABS and many MENU TABS with my hack

por obvious reason, only Internal Page (with THIS SCRIPT) can have Sublink

Look my TEST forum
http://www.vbsoporte.com/test/

I'm sorry I didn't understand much of what you just said but I have realized that it works. It seems that I have to create them in the order that I want them. I tried to make a new menu item with a drop down, but then place it with a lower display order number and it messed everything up. If I make a new menu dropdown second, it must display second. So yea... it works but there is a small issue there.

On your test forum, move your 3rd menu (manager 4) to be position with a lower display number than the 1st one (miembros). Can you let me know if you have the same issue I do with that?

Thanks buddy

I just upgraded to version 2.01 and I'm having some wierd stuff happen with adding sub-menus to tabs. I can add a tab, then when I add a sub-menu the tab disappears.

Thanks for this mod :)

this is a great mod but.

same problem for me

and again i have this problem.

Looking forward to the update :)

Thanks

fantastic mod! really well done.

one question that im sure someone can answer, How do i remove all the links under the tabs so all im using is the tabs, I.e new posts, private messages, faq, calendar etc?

Cheers

Rob

Amazing Mod. We replaced 2 seperate mods we were using to get this type of system and this single mod does soo much more, and is much more user friendly

Marked Installed & Highly Recommended

Nice mod, getting better all the time.

Yes, I told that only work with Default NAVBAR template, only this way can do Automatic. sorry


Ok, I see the error that mix 2 menu when their are together
Fixing.....

Some Another Problem or bug?

Awesome mod, great features.

Any chance for a sub sub-menu? :P

Then it would be perfect.

Great Mod, the best i've seen so far, simple easy to use.
Thanks:)

INSTALLED

Same here. Just installed 2.01 and have the same issue.

So are you saying that this mod won't work with any non-default styles? Am I just missing something, because it works great for the default, but no others. :(

OK nevermind...it appears that I had some code in my navbar for my custom styles that was stopping it from working. THANK YOU for this mod!

Doesn't work with default navbar either.

i thought the sub menus were a future addition!

Just installed this, works very well! Thank you!

I haven't tried the multiple tabs with dropdowns yet, but the single tab I have with dropdowns so far is working great.

Nominated!

Looks good. Only real suggestion that I would make is to allow the admins to select multiple usergroups to add, instead of adding the usergroup id numbers. Other than that, good!

What would be the THIS_SCRIPT for the vbulletin CMS (content.php)

i agree i am using the default navbar, but just changed the color, editing nothing else and its not working. :)

Excellent! I was trying to find this and it worked for me. Note the minor typo ... above is THIS_SCRIPT is what it shows for me.

For example, I wanted to replace Home with the word "Commentary" in the menu and put it to the right (still trying to figure out how to use the CMS system for my application). Now Commentary stays lit when I head to content.php and indicate the script is vbcms.

As reported, I was able to get a new tab to highlight when selected:

I made a new tab and went to url: ../forum/content.php
I looked into the content.php and saw that THIS_SCRIPT was specified as vbcms in the file ... I used this in your THIS_SCRIPT box and it was highlighted!

Thank you. v2.01

vbcms is THIS_SCRIPT for content.php

This got me 90% to where I need to be. I look forward to future upgrades. I was actually thinking about to tossing out VB4 for my application or investing considerable effort to study the contextual menu system. This hack saved me loads of time and got me close.

I hope everyone will encourage the developer on this project. He is filling a great need! I just sent some money which is several times bigger than the requested amount, but represents a fraction of the time I would have spent hacking away on this.

My main request for the future is I'd like the ability to manage the subtabs under the cardinal tabs (Forum, Home, etc.) and possibly rename those tabs as well. Of course, I could over-write them and re-create them, but this might be faster.

I also did not get a chance to check out menus on the subtabs (like under Forum).

All-in-all the developer has found a sweet spot to add value.

Rocket ... thanks so much .. i agree this is a great hack, I have nominated it for MOTM

I just upgraded to 2.0.2 and it broke my tab system ...
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