[Tip] Additional Dropdown Menu for Curve Theme 2.0 RC3

[steve51184]

Did you by any chance put a link in your top navigation drop down that doesn't link to anything? Look through your Subs.php where you put in the links yourselfs. Compare with this one link make sure they all have each item.

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'link_idr' => array(
'title' => 'Link 1',
'href' => $scripturl . '?action=link',
'show' => true,
'sub_buttons' => array(
),
),


they all look like that... can i pm you what i have so you can check it?

[ScopeXL]

sure.

[steve51184]

sure.

ty pm sent

[ScopeXL]

Fixed. Check PM for solution.

[crewchiefinlife]

I believe I'll try this tmr.

Thanx for the tutorial. 

April

[sontar]

Sorry, I don't want to hijack this thread. Is there a mod for adding the top menu without the drop downs?

I just need 4 simple external links added like there is at the top of this forum. I have spent 3 hrs looking.

Thanks for your help.

[ScopeXL]

Sorry, I don't want to hijack this thread. Is there a mod for adding the top menu without the drop downs?

I just need 4 simple external links added like there is at the top of this forum. I have spent 3 hrs looking.

Thanks for your help.

This tip you can achieve that. Here is a sample for the Subs.php $buttonsTop array for 4 links with no dropdowns.

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'menu1' => array(
            'title' => 'Menu 1',
            'href' => $scripturl,
            'show' => true,
            'sub_buttons' => array(
            ),
         ),
'menu2' => array(
            'title' => 'Menu 2',
            'href' => $scripturl,
            'show' => true,
            'sub_buttons' => array(
            ),
         ),
'menu3' => array(
            'title' => 'Menu 3',
            'href' => $scripturl,
            'show' => true,
            'sub_buttons' => array(
            ),
         ),
'menu4' => array(
            'title' => 'Menu 4',
            'href' => $scripturl,
            'show' => true,
            'sub_buttons' => array(
            ),
         ),


[sontar]

Thank you very much!

[andrew84uk]

Sorry, I don't want to hijack this thread. Is there a mod for adding the top menu without the drop downs?

I just need 4 simple external links added like there is at the top of this forum. I have spent 3 hrs looking.

Thanks for your help.

This tip you can achieve that. Here is a sample for the Subs.php $buttonsTop array for 4 links with no dropdowns.

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'menu1' => array(
            'title' => 'Menu 1',
            'href' => $scripturl,
            'show' => true,
            'sub_buttons' => array(
            ),
         ),
'menu2' => array(
            'title' => 'Menu 2',
            'href' => $scripturl,
            'show' => true,
            'sub_buttons' => array(
            ),
         ),
'menu3' => array(
            'title' => 'Menu 3',
            'href' => $scripturl,
            'show' => true,
            'sub_buttons' => array(
            ),
         ),
'menu4' => array(
            'title' => 'Menu 4',
            'href' => $scripturl,
            'show' => true,
            'sub_buttons' => array(
            ),
         ),


care to explain alittle?

[~DS~]

Do all the edits from the first post expect for subs.php if you don't want dropdown then use the codes above me in the subs.php instead of the subs.php codes in the first post.

[tfs]

I'm amazed that nobody has turned this gem into a mod yet!

[Liam.]

Probably because they don't want to do with all of the support comments for non-curve themes, that may be why no-ones modified it ^_^

I love this trick and am using it on all of my sites to link to one-another (kind of like affiliating), this is in the perfect place to do it

[Arantor]

iKorp has it exactly right. The number of non Curve themes this would have to be applied to manually (even considering 2.0's better support for doing it) is beyond irritating.

[Liam.]

Yeah, just like Ultimate Portal (which is going along great) is doing, including the top menu as a module, we're going to get ALOT of complaints about that from non-curve users so we're finding a way to define Curve themes to see if we can find a default way around it (maybe just static links just below <body>)...

[FireDitto]

Lovely tip. =D

[Antes]

This is awsome ... thank you my friend

[chrishicks]

Great tip. Tagging for future reference.

[USAFged]

I really like the way this displays in the Curve theme. I have mine setup without the submenus and it works great. I tried to do the same to the Core theme , but it displays vertically instead of horizontally. All the links are working but I need the menus to run horizontally and display them like the Core tabs . Not sure what to change.

[ScopeXL]

I really like the way this displays in the Curve theme. I have mine setup without the submenus and it works great. I tried to do the same to the Core theme , but it displays vertically instead of horizontally. All the links are working but I need the menus to run horizontally and display them like the Core tabs . Not sure what to change.

The core theme and curve theme's CSS differs greatly. Basically it would have to be a different set of steps to incorporate this into Core (without the drop down magic).

[bidzinski]

I like this, how do I get this on my forum? will I need to edit all the code?