Home/Forums Link

[The Sandman]

I've done this template mod for the dynamic link, but it doesn't work well with the Links:

In the Navbar template, find:

<!--<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php?$session[sessionurl]">Home</a></td>-->

And replace it with this:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'adv_index'"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]?$session[sessionurl]"> Forums <else /> <a href="$vboptions[homeurl]?$session[sessionurl]"> Home </if></a></td>

On the Links page, the dynamic link reads "Home" but clicking it results in an error - it tries to take me to
http://www.myforums.com/http://www.myforums.com/index.php/? How can I fix this?

[Brian]

What do you have set for your 'Home URL' option in your main vBulletin options? Make sure that it is set to the full URL to your homepage and that should solve the problem.

[The Sandman]

It is set for the full URL to my homepage. Forums to Homepage and Homepage to Forums work fine. The problem is only from the Links to Homepage. Hmm, maybe on the Links page I should have links to both the Forums and the Hompage separately. How would I do that?

[Brian]

Ahhh... I forgot that the str_replace function to replace the links in the navbar also replaces the forum's link with the homepage link for the navbits. If you'll just change "$vboptions[homeurl]" to "/index.php" instead then that should take care of the problem.

[The Sandman]

No, still having the same problem...

[The Sandman]

The "Home" link in the breadcrumbs works fine - what link does that use?

[The Sandman]

Originally Posted by Brian

Ahhh... I forgot that the str_replace function to replace the links in the navbar also replaces the forum's link with the homepage link for the navbits. If you'll just change "$vboptions[homeurl]" to "/index.php" instead then that should take care of the problem.

Finally figured it out by looking at the Links Navbar template. It's not "/index.php", it's "index.php" without the slash...

[The Sandman]

Bah - still a problem. I went ahead and made a separate "Home Page" link and "Forums" Link for my Navbar. If I'm on the Links page and click on the Home Page link I go to the vBA CMPS Homepage. But, if I'm in the Forums and click on the Home Page Link I go to the Main forum Page.

[Brian]

Are your forums on a subdomain or something? As long as they're not, then there's no reason that changing the home link to '/index.php' shouldn't work...

[The Sandman]

No, my Board is not on a subdomain. And '/index.php' does work... unless I'm on the Links page when I click it, in which case I get an error because the link tries to take me to:
http://www.myforums.com/http://www.myforums.com/index.php/

[The Sandman]

Here's my workaround for the Home Page link:

<if condition="VBA_SCRIPT == 'links_directory'">
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="index.php?$session[sessionurl]">Home Page</a></td></if>
<if condition="VBA_SCRIPT !== 'links_directory'">
    <if condition="THIS_SCRIPT !== 'adv_index'">
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="/index.php?$session[sessionurl]">Home Page</a></td></if></if>

[Brian]

Grrr... I keep forgetting about the str_replace function in the navbar that replaces those links. Sorry about that! This should fix the problem though and allow you to use '/index.php'...

In your forum/includes/functions_links.php look for:

PHP Code:

            $vboptions['bbtitle'],
            $vboptions['forumhome'] . '.php' 


Replace that with:

PHP Code:

            $vboptions['bbtitle'],
            '"' . $vboptions['forumhome'] . '.php' 


Then right below that find:

PHP Code:

            $vboptions['hometitle'],
            $vboptions['homeurl'] . '/' 


And replace that with:

PHP Code:

            $vboptions['hometitle'],
            '"' . $vboptions['homeurl'] 


And that should fix the problem and allow you to use '/index.php' for the link.

[The Sandman]

Now you're talking!

BTW, I'm also sing the uStore hack, with the Store dropdown menu in my navbar. On the Links page, the dropdown is not the same as on all other pages... it shows only:

uShop Menu
Bank
Richest Members
Most Sold
History
Actions

The links to the individual "actions" are missing. Any ideas on fixing that one?

[Brian]

Follow the instructions in this thread, except you'll want to make the changes to your /forum/includes/functions_links.php file instead.

[The Sandman]

Thanks Brian - I'm all set now...

...unless you also happen to know which conditionals I can use to identify the V3 Arcade Main Page and the V3 Artices Main Page...

[Brian]

THIS_SCRIPT == 'article'

And

THIS_SCRIPT == 'arcade'

[StewardManscat]

Grrr... I keep forgetting about the str_replace function in the navbar that replaces those links. Sorry about that! This should fix the problem though and allow you to use '/index.php'...

I found I needed to apply this fix

PHP Code:

replace
            '"' . $vboptions['forumhome'] . '.php'
with
            '"' . $vboptions['homeurl'] . '/links/index.php' 


But I see function construct_adv_navbar is included in gallery,links, and cmps. I wonder if there is a known rule for which could be ignored if all three products are together?

And obviously, my fix isn't going to fly for me if and when I get all these products working together on the same site, and decide to sprinkle breadcrumbs everywhere. I need to think about that more for myself, but I wonder what the recommended procedure is?

Home
-Forums
-Gallery
-Links
-My Contents

... at least four index.php pages... and this is further confused because "home" at an adult site is an entrance page that nobody cares about. My renamed cmps_index.php (now the lobby.php) is really my current home page.

Grr yourself. You should be so lucky to forget what we have not begun to learn.

[Brian]

Could you elaborate a little more on exactly why the current method is causing a problem? I took a look, but I'm not seeing anything too obvious as to how it is creating a problem.