Howto Ad additional navigation to nav bar?

[dragan]

Pligg 9.8
Server: cPanel, Apache2.2
PHP 5
Website: Kiefit.com

Hello,

How can I ad additional links- navigation to the navigation bar?

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Home Login Register Live Top users Tag cloud ????? ????? ==================================================

How is the exact procedure to customize the script?

Thanks.

[Andtony]

You can edit your navigation bar by opening your template's header.tpl file. The adding procedure vary's a bit depending on what kind of links you want to add. Like links that are only visible to users who are logged in or logged out etc.

[dragan]

Hello Andtony,

I would like to ad links that are visible to users who are logged in or logged out as well.
How can I do that?

Thanks.

[not2serious]

{if $pagename eq "upcoming"}
		    <li><a href="{$my_base_url}{$my_pligg_base}" class="navbut3"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Published_News#}</span></a></li>
		    <li><a href="{$URL_upcoming}" class="navbut4"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Pligg_Queued#} ({$queued})</span></a></li>
		    <li><a href="{$URL_submit}" class="navbut3"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Submit_A_New_Story#}</span></a></li>
		    <li><a href="http://www.critiquemyart.com/How_To.php" class="navbut3"><span>FAQs & How To's</span></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.critiquemyart.com/Contest_Page.php" class="navbut3"><span><strong>* CONTESTS *</strong></span></a></li>

{elseif $pagename eq "published"}
		    <li><a href="{$my_base_url}{$my_pligg_base}" class="navbut4"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Published_News#}</span></a></li>
		    <li><a href="{$URL_upcoming}" class="navbut3"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Pligg_Queued#} ({$queued})</span></a></li>
		    <li><a href="{$URL_submit}" class="navbut3"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Submit_A_New_Story#}</span></a></li>
		    <li><a href="http://www.critiquemyart.com/How_To.php" class="navbut3"><span>FAQs & How To's</span></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.critiquemyart.com/Contest_Page.php" class="navbut3"><span><strong>* CONTESTS *</strong></span></a></li>

{elseif $pagename eq "submit"}

This is how I did linked tabs to additional pages. Edit the header.tbl file. The red and green code was added to each {if} and they provide a direct link to the appropriate page. I am still working on this, but it does appear to work for me.

[dragan]

Originally Posted by not2serious

{if $pagename eq "upcoming"}
		    <li><a href="{$my_base_url}{$my_pligg_base}" class="navbut3"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Published_News#}</span></a></li>
		    <li><a href="{$URL_upcoming}" class="navbut4"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Pligg_Queued#} ({$queued})</span></a></li>
		    <li><a href="{$URL_submit}" class="navbut3"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Submit_A_New_Story#}</span></a></li>
		    <li><a href="http://www.critiquemyart.com/How_To.php" class="navbut3"><span>FAQs & How To's</span></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.critiquemyart.com/Contest_Page.php" class="navbut3"><span><strong>* CONTESTS *</strong></span></a></li>

{elseif $pagename eq "published"}
		    <li><a href="{$my_base_url}{$my_pligg_base}" class="navbut4"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Published_News#}</span></a></li>
		    <li><a href="{$URL_upcoming}" class="navbut3"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Pligg_Queued#} ({$queued})</span></a></li>
		    <li><a href="{$URL_submit}" class="navbut3"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Submit_A_New_Story#}</span></a></li>
		    <li><a href="http://www.critiquemyart.com/How_To.php" class="navbut3"><span>FAQs & How To's</span></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.critiquemyart.com/Contest_Page.php" class="navbut3"><span><strong>* CONTESTS *</strong></span></a></li>

{elseif $pagename eq "submit"}

This is how I did linked tabs to additional pages. Edit the header.tbl file. The red and green code was added to each {if} and they provide a direct link to the appropriate page. I am still working on this, but it does appear to work for me.

Hi and thank you. It works fine. :-)

[not2serious]

Hi dragan,

I took a look at your site. The additional table look great.

One thing you will need to do is add the code for the additional tabs to every "if/else". For example, if you select "Submit A Story" or "Contact," you will see that only the standard tabs are on those pages. Additionally, you will need to create statements for each new tab.

{if $pagename eq "upcoming"}
		    <li><a href="{$my_base_url}{$my_pligg_base}" class="navbut3"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Published_News#}</span></a></li>
		    <li><a href="{$URL_upcoming}" class="navbut4"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Pligg_Queued#} ({$queued})</span></a></li>
		    <li><a href="{$URL_submit}" class="navbut3"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Submit_A_New_Story#}</span></a></li>
		    <li><a href="http://www.critiquemyart.com/How_To.php" class="navbut3"><span>FAQs & How To's</span></a></li>   
                    <li><a href="http://www.critiquemyart.com/Contest_Page.php" class="navbut3"><span><strong>* CONTESTS *</strong></span></a></li>

So you will need to to change

class="navbut3"

to

class="navbut4"

For the tab that your are writing the "if/esle" rule for. This means that if the tab you have added is "Contact," then that line must have class="navbut4" and all the others must have class="navbut3". If you look at my sample, you will see this difference.

More questions ??? Post to this thread. Feel free to click that "Thanks" Button if I helped you :-).

[proppd]

My question is - can we do some kind of loop in PHP to get all the category names and automatically create navigation buttons for all categories?

Doing it manually works - for example to link to the videos category

<li><a href="{$URL_category}Videos" class="navbut3"><span>Videos</span></a></li> 

However I would think it would be possible to have PHP extract the categories for both the link and the link text. I'm not familar enough with php or pligg to attempt this myself though.

[zuperman]

{if $pagename eq "upcoming"}
		    <li><a href="{$my_base_url}{$my_pligg_base}" class="navbut3"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Published_News#}</span></a></li>
		    <li><a href="{$URL_upcoming}" class="navbut4"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Pligg_Queued#} ({$queued})</span></a></li>
		    <li><a href="{$URL_submit}" class="navbut3"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Submit_A_New_Story#}</span></a></li>
		    <li><a href="http://www.critiquemyart.com/How_To.php" class="navbut3"><span>FAQs & How To's</span></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.critiquemyart.com/Contest_Page.php" class="navbut3"><span><strong>* CONTESTS *</strong></span></a></li>

{elseif $pagename eq "published"}
		    <li><a href="{$my_base_url}{$my_pligg_base}" class="navbut4"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Published_News#}</span></a></li>
		    <li><a href="{$URL_upcoming}" class="navbut3"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Pligg_Queued#} ({$queued})</span></a></li>
		    <li><a href="{$URL_submit}" class="navbut3"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Submit_A_New_Story#}</span></a></li>
		    <li><a href="http://www.critiquemyart.com/How_To.php" class="navbut3"><span>FAQs & How To's</span></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.critiquemyart.com/Contest_Page.php" class="navbut3"><span><strong>* CONTESTS *</strong></span></a></li>

{elseif $pagename eq "submit"}

This is how I did linked tabs to additional pages. Edit the header.tbl file. The red and green code was added to each {if} and they provide a direct link to the appropriate page. I am still working on this, but it does appear to work for me.

Works great! But, how can I add navigation button only for registered users (just like Submit a new story button)?