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IMPORTANT: This hack is feature complete and there will be NO further updates, apart from fixing proven bugs. The reason this hack exists is to showcase/demo the potential of our commercial Tab and Link Manager 4 product and most, if not all, feature requests will already be included in the commercial product.
This is the Lite version of my commercial product - Tab and Link Manager 4 (http://www.wolfshead-solutions.com/ws-products/product-1). For questions in regards to purchasing the Tab and Link Manager 4 can you please create a new thread in the Pre-sales Questions (http://www.wolfshead-solutions.com/forums/5-Pre-sales-Questions) forum at Wolfshead Solutions instead of posting here. If it is just a comparison of features, then by all means post them in this thread.
This hack gives you an easy way to add custom tabs, links and submenu links to the end of the NavBar. This hack has been stable since I wrote it in November 2009 and does exactly what it says on the tin. The first release of the commercial version was actually based on this version with the addition of the impex feature (which has been removed again before being released here as a Lite version).
This hack will not allow you any control over the already existing default tabs, links and submenu links added by vBulletin (Classic or Publishing Suite) nor any other third-party add-on that adds it's own tabs, links and submenu links.
Tab and Link Manager Lite offers you the following functionality:
Add/Edit/Delete a tab.
Add/Edit/Delete a link.
Add/Edit/Delete a submenu link.
Tabs, links and submenu links can be individually controlled by usergroup permissions.
Tabs, links or submenu links will not be viewable to users not in an authorised usergroup.
You can change the display order for individual tabs, links and submenu links.
The commercial version Tab and Link Manager 4 offers you the following additional functionality not available in Tab and Link Manager Lite:
Total NavBar replacement - looks and feels like the original.
Ability to toggle on/off the Home & Blog default vBulletin tabs.
Ability to toggle on/off the Forum & What's New default vBulletin tabs (via a template edit & importing a definition file into the Tab and Link Manager 4 database via impex).
Ability to toggle on/off the Projects tab.
Ability to toggle on/off the Global Search Box.
Two new Tab types: Dropdown and URL Matching (to allow for more than one tab to point to the same file, bypassing the THIS_SCRIPT limitations caused by the default NavBar).
Tab images.
Tabs can be positioned in three different locations on the NavBar.
Links and submenu links can be targeted on how it is to be opened in a web browser.
Tabs, links and submenu links can be either text or they can be a phrase (allowing for different text when another language is selected).
Tabs, links and submenu links can be local or external urls.
Script conditionals; allows for more control over each Tab, Link and SubMenu link, using conditional statements such as $show['searchbuttons'] && $show['member'].
Multiple THIS_SCRIPT names: allows multiple locations to highlight a single tab (Normal tabs).
Multiple relative/full urls: allows different content from a single file (such as vBCMS) to highlight several tabs correctly (URL_Matching tabs).
For viewers that have cookies disabled, all Tabs, Links and SubMenu links have the session hash correctly added to it.
For W3C standards purists the (x)html link target attribute has been replaced for Links and SubMenu links with the standards compliant rel attribute (via custom javascript) which emulates the target attribute and allows all xhtml generated by Tab and Link Manager 4 itself to 100% validate with W3C.
You can export your Tab and Link Manager 4 database to an xml definition file (all tabs, links and submenu links).
You can import your saved Tab and Link Manager 4 xml definition file into this product (all tabs, links and submenu links).
You can export your Tab and Link Manager Lite database to a compatible xml definition file (all tabs, links and submenu links) ready to import into Tab and Link Manager 4.
Frequently Asked Questions
Question:
It doesn't work! Help!!!Answer:
Sorry, I do not provide support for my free hacks here at vBulletin.org anymore, and support is now only provided at Wolfshead Solutions (http://www.wolfshead-solutions.com/) via paid subscription.Question:
Can you add a feature/functionality to this hack (disable/remove default tabs, add drop-down tabs etc,.)?Answer:
I will not be adding additional functionality to this Lite version. These features are most likely already included in my commercial product Tab and Link Manager 4 (http://www.wolfshead-solutions.com/ws-products/product-1).Question:
I don't like the copyright branding at the bottom of every page generated by hack, what can I do?Answer:
Please read the Branding section below, which talks about the branding-free option and is the only option if you want to use this hack without copyright branding. The alternative to that is to uninstall the hack and not using it at all.
vBulletin Version Compatibility
This hack can be used with v4.0.0 and later versions.
This product will NOT work with 3.8.x and earlier as the new NavBar was not introduced until 4.0.0.
Hack Support/Feature Requests
All support for this free hack will be provided at Wolfshead Solutions (http://www.wolfshead-solutions.com/) via subscription service. This hack is feature complete and there will be no further updates.
I will not be providing any support here at all, and all requests for support not posted at Wolfshead Solutions by vBulletin.org Hacks Support subscribers will just be ignored.
The one and only reason I no longer provide free support, is that I have been unemployed for a fair while and need to put food on my families' table and a roof over our heads. Creating and updating commercial products, supporting my paid subscribers and paying clients pays the bills, and the simple fact is that supporting my free hacks for free and relying on donation from vBulletin.org for over four and half years did not. If you don't like the reason, too bad, my family comes first. For even more information, please see here (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1944465#post1944465).
Branding
There is a small unobtrusive block of copyright branding text at the bottom of each page generated by this hack, which is there to promote my work and allow you to use this hack for free.
You are NOT allowed to remove my copyright branding from this hack.
If you wish to remove the visible copyright branding from this hack, then you can do so by purchasing a life-time multi-site Tab and Link Manager Lite - Branding Free Subscription at Wolfshead Solutions (http://www.wolfshead-solutions.com/).
Removal of the copyright branding without purchase of a branding-free license will be considered as a breach of copyright, and I will take the matter further.
Install/Upgrade/Uninstall Instructions
The readme_tab_and_link_manager_lite.html instructions file is included in attached .zip file. You will need to open this file in a web browser.
Version History
v4.0.001 - Tuesday 27th July 2010
-- Initial Release
Screenshots:
http://img.photo.zing.vn/file_uploads/gallery/1024x768/2010/07/28/07/49451280321746.pnghttp://img.photo.zing.vn/file_uploads/gallery/1024x768/2010/07/28/07/90951280321751.pnghttp://img.photo.zing.vn/file_uploads/gallery/1024x768/2010/07/28/07/51321280321758.pnghttp://img.photo.zing.vn/file_uploads/gallery/1024x768/2010/07/28/07/57321280321764.pnghttp://img.photo.zing.vn/file_uploads/gallery/1024x768/2010/07/28/07/95291280321774.pnghttp://img.photo.zing.vn/file_uploads/gallery/1024x768/2010/07/28/07/92071280321783.png
This is the Lite version of my commercial product - Tab and Link Manager 4 (http://www.wolfshead-solutions.com/ws-products/product-1). For questions in regards to purchasing the Tab and Link Manager 4 can you please create a new thread in the Pre-sales Questions (http://www.wolfshead-solutions.com/forums/5-Pre-sales-Questions) forum at Wolfshead Solutions instead of posting here. If it is just a comparison of features, then by all means post them in this thread.
This hack gives you an easy way to add custom tabs, links and submenu links to the end of the NavBar. This hack has been stable since I wrote it in November 2009 and does exactly what it says on the tin. The first release of the commercial version was actually based on this version with the addition of the impex feature (which has been removed again before being released here as a Lite version).
This hack will not allow you any control over the already existing default tabs, links and submenu links added by vBulletin (Classic or Publishing Suite) nor any other third-party add-on that adds it's own tabs, links and submenu links.
Tab and Link Manager Lite offers you the following functionality:
Add/Edit/Delete a tab.
Add/Edit/Delete a link.
Add/Edit/Delete a submenu link.
Tabs, links and submenu links can be individually controlled by usergroup permissions.
Tabs, links or submenu links will not be viewable to users not in an authorised usergroup.
You can change the display order for individual tabs, links and submenu links.
The commercial version Tab and Link Manager 4 offers you the following additional functionality not available in Tab and Link Manager Lite:
Total NavBar replacement - looks and feels like the original.
Ability to toggle on/off the Home & Blog default vBulletin tabs.
Ability to toggle on/off the Forum & What's New default vBulletin tabs (via a template edit & importing a definition file into the Tab and Link Manager 4 database via impex).
Ability to toggle on/off the Projects tab.
Ability to toggle on/off the Global Search Box.
Two new Tab types: Dropdown and URL Matching (to allow for more than one tab to point to the same file, bypassing the THIS_SCRIPT limitations caused by the default NavBar).
Tab images.
Tabs can be positioned in three different locations on the NavBar.
Links and submenu links can be targeted on how it is to be opened in a web browser.
Tabs, links and submenu links can be either text or they can be a phrase (allowing for different text when another language is selected).
Tabs, links and submenu links can be local or external urls.
Script conditionals; allows for more control over each Tab, Link and SubMenu link, using conditional statements such as $show['searchbuttons'] && $show['member'].
Multiple THIS_SCRIPT names: allows multiple locations to highlight a single tab (Normal tabs).
Multiple relative/full urls: allows different content from a single file (such as vBCMS) to highlight several tabs correctly (URL_Matching tabs).
For viewers that have cookies disabled, all Tabs, Links and SubMenu links have the session hash correctly added to it.
For W3C standards purists the (x)html link target attribute has been replaced for Links and SubMenu links with the standards compliant rel attribute (via custom javascript) which emulates the target attribute and allows all xhtml generated by Tab and Link Manager 4 itself to 100% validate with W3C.
You can export your Tab and Link Manager 4 database to an xml definition file (all tabs, links and submenu links).
You can import your saved Tab and Link Manager 4 xml definition file into this product (all tabs, links and submenu links).
You can export your Tab and Link Manager Lite database to a compatible xml definition file (all tabs, links and submenu links) ready to import into Tab and Link Manager 4.
Frequently Asked Questions
Question:
It doesn't work! Help!!!Answer:
Sorry, I do not provide support for my free hacks here at vBulletin.org anymore, and support is now only provided at Wolfshead Solutions (http://www.wolfshead-solutions.com/) via paid subscription.Question:
Can you add a feature/functionality to this hack (disable/remove default tabs, add drop-down tabs etc,.)?Answer:
I will not be adding additional functionality to this Lite version. These features are most likely already included in my commercial product Tab and Link Manager 4 (http://www.wolfshead-solutions.com/ws-products/product-1).Question:
I don't like the copyright branding at the bottom of every page generated by hack, what can I do?Answer:
Please read the Branding section below, which talks about the branding-free option and is the only option if you want to use this hack without copyright branding. The alternative to that is to uninstall the hack and not using it at all.
vBulletin Version Compatibility
This hack can be used with v4.0.0 and later versions.
This product will NOT work with 3.8.x and earlier as the new NavBar was not introduced until 4.0.0.
Hack Support/Feature Requests
All support for this free hack will be provided at Wolfshead Solutions (http://www.wolfshead-solutions.com/) via subscription service. This hack is feature complete and there will be no further updates.
I will not be providing any support here at all, and all requests for support not posted at Wolfshead Solutions by vBulletin.org Hacks Support subscribers will just be ignored.
The one and only reason I no longer provide free support, is that I have been unemployed for a fair while and need to put food on my families' table and a roof over our heads. Creating and updating commercial products, supporting my paid subscribers and paying clients pays the bills, and the simple fact is that supporting my free hacks for free and relying on donation from vBulletin.org for over four and half years did not. If you don't like the reason, too bad, my family comes first. For even more information, please see here (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1944465#post1944465).
Branding
There is a small unobtrusive block of copyright branding text at the bottom of each page generated by this hack, which is there to promote my work and allow you to use this hack for free.
You are NOT allowed to remove my copyright branding from this hack.
If you wish to remove the visible copyright branding from this hack, then you can do so by purchasing a life-time multi-site Tab and Link Manager Lite - Branding Free Subscription at Wolfshead Solutions (http://www.wolfshead-solutions.com/).
Removal of the copyright branding without purchase of a branding-free license will be considered as a breach of copyright, and I will take the matter further.
Install/Upgrade/Uninstall Instructions
The readme_tab_and_link_manager_lite.html instructions file is included in attached .zip file. You will need to open this file in a web browser.
Version History
v4.0.001 - Tuesday 27th July 2010
-- Initial Release
Screenshots:
http://img.photo.zing.vn/file_uploads/gallery/1024x768/2010/07/28/07/49451280321746.pnghttp://img.photo.zing.vn/file_uploads/gallery/1024x768/2010/07/28/07/90951280321751.pnghttp://img.photo.zing.vn/file_uploads/gallery/1024x768/2010/07/28/07/51321280321758.pnghttp://img.photo.zing.vn/file_uploads/gallery/1024x768/2010/07/28/07/57321280321764.pnghttp://img.photo.zing.vn/file_uploads/gallery/1024x768/2010/07/28/07/95291280321774.pnghttp://img.photo.zing.vn/file_uploads/gallery/1024x768/2010/07/28/07/92071280321783.png