How do I add the "Home" and "Forum" link on nav bar?

[HuangA]

Hi;
I noticed on vBadvanced.com and vBadvanced.com/forums, the nav bar seem to recognize which page you are at and presents a different list of navigation options. How would I come about doing that?

Regards,
Andy Huang

[mholtum]

In the navbar template find:

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

and replace with:

<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>

[HuangA]

That worked great! Thanks

[mholtum]

Glad to help.. Give us a link to your site

[StevePJC]

If the folder that the forums are in is named /forums how would I get that to point to the right forum. Changing the name I've found screws up the front page.

[DarknessDivine]

If the folder that the forums are in is named /forums how would I get that to point to the right forum. Changing the name I've found screws up the front page.

huh?

[StevePJC]

Oh forget it. I'll find a way to fix it myself.

[mholtum]

Originally Posted by StevePJC

If the folder that the forums are in is named /forums how would I get that to point to the right forum. Changing the name I've found screws up the front page.

Shouldn't matter. My vb is installed in /forum. I dont think that the actually name of the dir is relevant.

[Allen Mead]

Is that where 'forum' changes to 'home' on the nav bar when you click on forum?

[mholtum]

Yes

[Allen Mead]

Coolio! cheers mholtum!

[mholtum]

I cant take credit for this one. Brian told me...

[Allen Mead]

What do I need to do to this scrpit to change it to go back to my cmps_index.php page which is located at http://www.astra-mk2.com/forum/cmps_index.php ?

Cheers

[mholtum]

Originally Posted by Allen Mead

What do I need to do to this scrpit to change it to go back to my cmps_index.php page which is located at http://www.astra-mk2.com/forum/cmps_index.php ?

Cheers

If you place the cmps_index.php file in your root and change it to index.php it will work. Other than that you would have to change the $vboptions[forumhome].php to point to the cmps_index.php file in your /forums/ dir.

[Allen Mead]

Cool, cheers

[Allen Mead]

I've now got an interesting problem with this. On anyother forum page the 'home' links works perfectly and returns you to our cmps_index.php home page. However, when you're in the links directory, the same link in the navbar points to here:

http://www.astra-mk2.com/forum/cmps_...mk2.com/forum/

hmmm??? Any help much appreciated.

[mholtum]

I think it has something to do with the fact that you have the cmps_index.php file in the same directory as the forums

[Allen Mead]

Could be I guess. Trouble is tho, now it's been installed there it'll mess everything up if I move it to my root folder.

[mholtum]

Originally Posted by Allen Mead

Could be I guess. Trouble is tho, now it's been installed there it'll mess everything up if I move it to my root folder.

No it wont. Just move it and insert put chdir('./forum'); back in. Replace the word forum with the name of your forum directory

[Allen Mead]

you are a star!