Adding website link to smf page?

[evilstevie]

Hello.   I'm looking to add a hyperlink from the SMF main forum page back to a website page.      I had this working a couple of years ago in ver 1.x of smf, but now at ver 2.0.11, I'm no longer able to do this with my very limited skill set.    Thanks for any help.

Very similar to what this guy wanted to do in 2012, but I don't know what smf version was current then.    http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=476927.0

[Gluz]

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Buttons_-_How_do_I_add_buttons_to_SMF_2.0

It's all in the wiki, all you need is edit the Subs.php file with the correct data and your are done.

[evilstevie]

Thanks for the reply.    Not having any luck unfortunately.    Even trying to add a simple "test" button, as below (bold), and I'm not able to make that appear on my forum index.      Ideally, I'd like to be able to place this new button in the upper left corner of the index page, and not with the Home, Help, Search, etc. buttons.     But at this point I can't even add the button anywhere!    Thanks for any help.
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// All the buttons we can possible want and then some, try pulling the final list of buttons from cache first.
   if (($menu_buttons = cache_get_data('menu_buttons-' . implode('_', $user_info['groups']) . '-' . $user_info['language'], $cacheTime)) === null || time() - $cacheTime <= $modSettings['settings_updated'])
   {
      $buttons = array(
         'home' => array(
            'title' => $txt['home'],
            'href' => $scripturl,
            'show' => true,
            'sub_buttons' => array(
            ),
            'is_last' => $context['right_to_left'],
            
            ),
         
         'test' => array(
            'title' => $txt['test '],
            'href' => $scripturl . '?action=help',
            'show' => true,
            'sub_buttons' => array(
            ),
            
         ),
         
         'help' => array(
            'title' => $txt['help'],
            'href' => $scripturl . '?action=help',
            'show' => true,
            'sub_buttons' => array(
            ),

[Kindred]

And did you create the Text string that $txt['test'] calls for?

[evilstevie]

And did you create the Text string that $txt['test'] calls for?

Most certainly I did not.

Do I do that in Modifications.YourLangauge.php?

thanks....

[Kindred]

yup

[evilstevie]

OK..thanks again.   Making progress here.   I've got the button named, how do I hyperlink that button?
This doesn't work, takes me to xyz.com/smf/h [nofollow] :

'test' => array(
            'title' => $txt['new_button'],
            'href' => $scripturl [www.xyz.com],
            'show' => true,
            'sub_buttons' => array(
            ),

[Gluz]

The correct syntax for the link is:

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'href' => 'http://your.url.here',

$scripturl is a variable that contain the url if the main index.php of the forum, for example http://domain.com/forum/index.php, so, that only can be used when the Button you add have that in the URL so you only add after that some extra parameter, like a direct topic or a separate page managed by SMF or some MOD.