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DJ's Dynamic Tab Content for Postbit_Legacy
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**vBulletin 3.x version can be found here: DJ's Dynamic Tab Content for Postbit_Legacy**
Ever felt your postbit_legacy template was just too long? Or maybe you'd like to add more content to your postbit_legacy, but you don't like the cluttered look or extended length of the post, especially when most posts are only a handful of sentences? Almost every decent modification here on vB.org has the option to add a link or a display to your postbit templates, and you've likely struggled, as I have, to come up with just the info you want to display, likely excluding things you thought would look real nice, but just couldn't justify the room for. Now I've seen several good modifications that address this problem, and all of them are pretty nice. I've seen everything from a drop-down menu that displays the content, to a box that can be opened and closed just underneath the avatar. All of them are practical in their own way, and here's one more way that I worked out using a script from Dynamic Drive's website called Tab Content Script. This cleaned up my postbit_legacy just the way I wanted, and let me add even more content then I would have originally intended. It also allowed me to organize content in whatever manner I wished. I love it and I think you will too. Screenshots Live Demo Live Demo is on a vBulletin 3.x forum, but the functionality is identical for vB4. Click any of the grey dots beneath the user's avatars. Difficulty: Intermediate A few things you should know before moving forward. The instructions for this mod are not your standard template modification instructions. It's going to presume that you've edited your postbit_legacy template before and that you're somewhat familiar with its content, with HTML and how to wrap <if condition=""> conditionals. So it's not going to be a "look for this line of code, add this under it" kind of traditional tutorial. What I'm going to do is show you the basic code, how to implement it and then let you do with it what you want. That is, after all, the reason I came up with mod in first place, and I know everyone wont have the same postbit content and/or will want to set theirs up differently. With that said, knowledge of how to modify your templates and basic HTML coding is something every vBulletin administrator should have. I'm not a coder. I'm a complete hack. But I know enough to take some of the wealth of code snippets available on the web and attempt to use them in new and inventive ways. Administrating a vB forum is that much more satisfying as a result. Installation To add this to your forum requires you to upload some files, make one edit to your headinclude template and one to your postbit_legacy template. If you don't know what postbit_legacy does, it's the template that controls the look of your posts when you've chosen to have avatars and user information appear to the left hand side of your posts. If you don't use that look for your forum, but instead use the one where avatars appear above your posts, then that means you use the postbit template, and this modification wasn't designed to look right on that template. (Though we have had a few users give it a try.) Step 1. First things first. After downloading the Attachment 113756 file, extract the contents and upload the postbit_tabs folder in your forum's root directory (Your forum root is the folder you have physically installed vBulletin in, which means that for some folks, this isn't the same thing as your site root.) Step 2. Right click and download this JavaScript file from the Dynamic Drive website: tabcontent.js (You can also download it from this page.) Upload it to the postbit_tabs folder you just added to your website. Step 3. Now to edit your headinclude template. Go to Admin CP >>> Styles & Templates >>> Style Manager >>> <<>> >>> headinclude. Add the following block of code to the very bottom. Remember to keep the copyright intact for legal use.
Step 4. Now to access your postbit_legacy template, go to Admin CP >>> Styles & Templates >>> Style Manager >>> <<>> >>> Postbit Templates >>> postbit_legacy. From here, your going to add a basic set of code from which you can then customize it. You can pretty much add it anywhere in the template, but most likely your going to want to add it just below the avatar. If that's the case, your avatar code is most likely going to look something like this:
Below that add this basic set of code. This block of code will be your physical tab content.
Now go to your forum and see if your tabs are displaying properly and your not getting any errors. You should have five dot tabs that display five different sets of information when clicked. Final Steps Now comes the hard part. Now you have to decide what you want to put in those places called Tab 1 Content:Block A, etc. This is where knowledge of your postbit_legacy template comes into play. Your now going to move whatever content you want in the respective tabs from their current location into the tabs. This is entirely up to you, but you can use my forum as a starting point. The following posts also have some tips to help you along the way. Post 2 has a Basic Breakdown of what the tabs do, a tutorial on how to add more tabs, default snippets of code that you can move into the tabs containers as well some snippets from common hacks. Post 3 has some links to other sites that have implemented this hack to give you an idea of what can be done with it. And it has some additional images to use in place of the default dots. Post 5 has Frequently Asked Questions for most problems you would encounter. Known Bugs There is one minor issue with the tabs that only occurs when using the AJAX quick reply and inline editing. Actually it's two issues, but I've only seen one or the other on my live site vs. my demo board. In one instance, the entire content of all your tabs displays all at once when posting/editing using AJAX. This is not a huge deal, as the only person who sees it do that is the person doing the posting/editing. And it will return to normal anytime he reloads or refreshes the page. The other instance is when after posting/editing through AJAX, no tab content appears, except the dot tabs. This is also not a huge deal as the same thing will happen here too; only the poster sees it and it will look normal anytime he returns or reloads the page. I think it's a minor trade off for the sleek look it gives your forum the rest of the time. Upgrade Instructions For those using the vBulletin 3.x version and who want to upgrade, follow the instructions I'll be including shortly in a subsequent post. Download Now Only licensed members can download files, Click Here for more information. Screenshots
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| Miscellaneous Hacks DJ's Dynamic Tab Content for Postbit_Legacy | Digital Jedi | vBulletin 3.8 Template Modifications | 389 | 19 Sep 2013 16:26 |
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09 Mar 2010, 08:08
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**This section may need a little tweaking. But it's fundamentally the same as before. I'll double check it after the sleep tabs wear off**
Basic Breakdown Here's a basic explanation as to how the code works. This should help you to create new tabs and what can be edited in the code to your preferences. The Tabs: Let's take a look back at the code you just added. In Step 4 you added a bunch of lines like this one. These are your tabs, the parts that people will actually click on to change the content view. In this example we're looking at the code for Tab 2.
The code in red is your TITLE. It's what will show in the Tool Tip when someone mouseovers one of the tabs. Change this to your liking. I group my tabs by categories like Contact Info, TCG Info, General Info, etc. Do what cha' like. The code in blue just a non-breaking space added in so people have something to click on. Users will see a background image, but what they'll actually be clicking is this non-breaking space. Change this space if you want to use text for your tabs instead of images. Otherwise just leave it be. (See FAQ) The Containers: Now lets take a look at your containers. These are the DIVs that will display your content when a new tab is clicked. Each one is marked <!-- TAB [#] CONTENT --> and correspond to each of the tabs mentioned in the block of code above.
The code in blue, the DIV, is your container, and is needed for the tabs to work. This part you would not change. Everything on the inside is replaceable code and can be customize to look however you want. Examples of code snippets you can move into each of these tabs can be found a little further down in this post. Creating New Tabs Let's take a look at the Step 4 code again. Here's the code for Tab 2 again, as well as it's corresponding container.
The green code in both blocks here is what tells Tab 2 to show container 2's content. The rel of the tab is the same as the id of the container. They're both tab2{vb:raw post.postid}. So when creating additional tabs, pick up where the numbers left off on the last tab and start again. I had you install 5 tabs, so if your using all 5 and want to add another, the rel for your new tab and id for your new container would both be tab6{vb:raw post.postid}. The next tab and container you add would be tab7{vb:raw post.postid}. Then the next tab8{vb:raw post.postid} and so on and so forth. You get the idea. More Options
NOTE: This has since been set to false by default. Users have been reporting some login issues when this is set to true. So use at your own discretion. This line of code sets the persistence of a clicked tab each time a user returns to that page during the same browser session. Set to true, and the last clicked tab will always display that tab on reload. Set to false, and it will show the tab with the ID selected each time. Note that each tab is unique, and having this set to true won't make much of a difference to your users view of the forum. The only tab that will ever persist is the one he/she clicked on, on a specific post in a specific thread, and only there. And only during the same browser session.
Put a number inside the parenthesis to determine how many milliseconds you want to pass between each time the tabs automatically toggle themselves. I have not tried this option yet, and I can imagine that it would be very annoying. But I figured, why not let you try it.
vBulletin IF Conditionals can be used to show/hide whole tabs, or the specific content of tabs based on a number of parameters: Usergroup Permissions, Forum IDs, User IDs, Thread IDs, Post IDs, etc. Just wrap a conditional around a whole tab and then it's container, or wrap the content of the container in any number of fashions. To learn more about what conditionals are available here are two good resources: Default Postbit Legacy Code Bits Here's a few of the things that come standard in vBulletin that you might want to move to the various DIV containers. Online Status:
Posts:
Age:
Join Date:
Biography:
Interests:
Occupation:
Infractions:
Reputation:
Instant Messengers:
Common Hack Postbit Legacy Code Bits Here's a few code bits that you'll find in some of the more common vBulletin modifications that you might have installed that you'd like to move to the DIV containers. vBCredits:
Countries/Region Flags (Replace 8 and 9 with whatever fields your using):
ibProArcade (With some slight additions by me):
Made Up Postbit Legacy Codes: And here's at least one I just went ahead and made up for my forum: Send User a PM/Email/Friend Request:
If you have more examples that I can post, possible some I overlooked or mods I don't have installed, please feel free to post them and I'll add them to this post.
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Additional Live Demos
Here's some additional examples of how people have utilized the script on their forums http://www.cogonline.net/forums/showthread.php?t=44718 http://www.glamrocktalk.com/showthre...?p=177#post177 http://jpicforum.info/lots-humor/why...road-6801.html http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showp...&postcount=300 http://www.phinzmania.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42794 http://www.stickskills.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3392 Additional Dot Images Here's a few additional Dot Images in different colors for your convience. Attachment 85834 Attachment 85835 Attachment 85836 Attachment 85837 Attachment 85838 Attachment 85839 Attachment 85840 Attachment 85841 Attachment 85842 Attachment 85843
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Last edited by Digital Jedi; 09 Mar 2010 at 08:23.
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09 Mar 2010, 08:09
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Upgrading from the vB3.x Version
This is actually very easy. If your still using the old version, and you want to just migrate your old code over to the new templates, just change these things in the Tab Content code you added to your two templates. In headinclude:Now edit your existing content code if necessary, since they also probably use new values.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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Last edited by Digital Jedi; 09 Mar 2010 at 08:36.
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09 Mar 2010, 08:29
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Tagged, Bit too complicated for me,lol
Will get a friend to try to install this for me later when more have seen if it works correctly on v4.0.2 cheers
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09 Mar 2010, 12:54
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Got it working myself and a great addition, if possible can you help with a little addition for me ?
I have :
The RED text, how would i put this in my code so it shows that text only in red ? Also to have a space between each answer ? Also when it shows in the postbit_legacy, where my answer is for CLAN URL, Can this be made clickable so people can click the clan URL and be directed to that site in another page ? Cheers in advance
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Last edited by betts02; 09 Mar 2010 at 13:03.
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09 Mar 2010, 17:32
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good one.. but i m too lazy do all the edits.. wanna make it a product
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10 Mar 2010, 07:03
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Originally Posted by betts02
You just copy the code and put it in one the DIV containers, as I've outlined above. Same code, just in a different spot. Creating links is something easy enough to do, but you would need to look up how to make a hyperlink in HTML. Fairly simple stuff there. Try http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp
Originally Posted by tafreeh
This just isn't something that is practical as a product. It would require template edits to the same templates, either way. Down the road, maybe I'll try something. But the way modifications are set to display in the postbit, there's no way to make this work around things that use the template hooks.
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10 Mar 2010, 16:10
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Sweet. Thanks. I was hoping this one would carry over.
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11 Mar 2010, 09:05
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installed + 5 Stars
goood work thanxxx man example : http://www.alra7ba.net/vb/showthread...213#post174213 ________ CHRYSLER FLATHEAD ENGINE No members have liked this post.
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14 Mar 2010, 04:34
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This looks like such a fine mod, but I tried multiple times to install, but it's too complicated for my abilities.
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14 Mar 2010, 20:08
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Originally Posted by Destron
This is definitely an Intermediate type modification, and necessarily so for the type of code being used. That said, it's workable, but it will take some time to understand if you've not done a lot of template editing. But if you work this out, you'll be able to do a great many thing with your template that you never realized you could, and maybe even come up with some things of your own, all without necessarily knowing anything about coding.
What exactly did you have trouble with? Anything that wasn't covered in the FAQ
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28 Mar 2010, 12:13
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Does not work. I'm pretty much advanced when it comes to coding and using Dynamic Drive stuff. Don't know why it will not work. I've tried several things.
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28 Mar 2010, 21:00
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Originally Posted by metalguy639
Post your postbit_legacy code, and maybe we can find the problem.
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